Tag Archives: ramblings

Alternate History: The Speech that Wasn’t

Posted on 2007 September 11 by mongreldogs

In preparing my second Convocation speech, I spent most of the summer at a loss. Once I had changed apartments, I sat down in earnest. Eventually, I ended up jettisoning my original effort and producing the speech as given. But … Continue reading →

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Hidden meanings?

Posted on 2007 August 21 by mongreldogs

I don’t know what this means, but I’ve discovered something weird with the iTunes Music Store. I wanted to find a particular song by Bob Dylan called “Dignity”. But the search box won’t find it for me, instead returning an … Continue reading →

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The Mongrel Dogs at Sea (10): Managed Disequilibrium

Posted on 2007 August 11 by mongreldogs

Every night, the crew of the Regal Princess find some live entertainment to put on in the grandiosely-named International Show Lounge. Sometimes it’s in-house, like a crew sing-along. Usually, it’s more like a Vegas revue: Sometimes piano, sometimes comedy, sometimes … Continue reading →

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The Mongrel Dogs at Sea (6): Security Silliness

Posted on 2007 August 10 by mongreldogs

I was going to write today about my visit to the USS Arizona and USS Missouri memorials and how moving it was. I suppose I’ll get to that, though maybe not today. Right now I’m going to blog about one … Continue reading →

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Irksome metric

Posted on 2007 July 1 by mongreldogs

Today, there’s a piece by Maya Jasonoff in the Sunday magazine of the New York Times on the Americans loyal to Britain during the Revolution, and it has me irked. It’s not the thesis, which I agree with, that we … Continue reading →

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Why I’m a Technophile

Posted on 2007 June 17 by mongreldogs

For you to understand this post, there are two things about myself I should tell you — they’re already well-known to any of my friends: I drink a lot of Coke. I have catastrophically bad eyesight. More below the fold.

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New, if silly, pursuit

Posted on 2007 May 12 by mongreldogs

So I haven’t stretched my creative muscles very much lately, and I’ve been looking for something to do. Playing around with Poser and some models I got from the Net, I decided I was going to make propaganda posters from … Continue reading →

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Pondering Hate Crimes and Hate-Crime Laws

Posted on 2007 May 4 by mongreldogs

Apparently there’s something afoot in the House that has brought this back into national focus. Reading about it, I wandered across a blog post in Orcinus from 2005 January (!). I have to say, for the first time in many … Continue reading →

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Why We’re In the Mess We’re In

Posted on 2007 March 31 by mongreldogs

Matthew Dowd, an adviser to President Bush, today said in an interview that he was disappointed by the President’s stand on the war, on the will of the public, and, well, just about everything. It’s clear that Mr. Dowd is … Continue reading →

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