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Hedgehog and the invasion
Hedgehog was worried. “I’m worried,” he said to Squirrel. “What is it this time?” asked Squirrel, who sometimes found Hedgehog’s constant worrying a bit tedious. “I’m worried about the invasion.” “What did you say?” asked Squirrel, astonished. “The invasion. I think it’s going to happen today, and I’m worried. Sure, I’m small; I can probably… Continue reading
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C’mon, man!
My hurry up and go-nessIs annoyed by human slowness They simply lack velocity!This earns my animosity. -Chocolate Continue reading
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Abacot or not?
People who compile reference books like dictionaries have to be on the lookout, not just for mountweazels inserted into other references as copyright bait, but also for simple mistakes. After all, if you’re going to write your own dictionary, some of the best places to start are other dictionaries. But what if one of them… Continue reading
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October 6
Although it might seem like it’s been around forever, the Instagram app was released exactly fourteen years ago today. It was available only for iPhones at first. An Android app came along two years later, along with a desktop version that works in a web browser. It appeared on Amazon Fire devices two years after… Continue reading
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A good egg, that chap
An occasional Halloween prank in the US is “egging” where kids throw eggs at a house or a car. Their friends, you might imagine, are busy “egging them on.” But egging someone on, even when you’re egging them on about egging, has nothing to do with eggs. Well, I mean, in that particular case I… Continue reading
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October 5
The most important thing about October 5 is that it’s World Teacher’s Day. It was first declared in 1994 by UNESCO (that’s the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization), UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund — the E used to stand for “Emergency,” but now it doesn’t) and the ILO (that’s the International Labor Organization,… Continue reading
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Johanna Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh was not born today, but this story is very much about him as well as Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, who was born October 4, 1862. She was born in Amsterdam, and by the time she was 22 was teaching English at a boarding school. Around that time she was introduced to Theo van… Continue reading
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October 4
In these upsetting and degrading times, many people around the world think about escaping the ills of their own countries and emigrating to another. Even here in the US, people are thinking about moving to, in large part, Canada. Even though at the moment US citizens may not be all that welcome in Canada. But… Continue reading
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A Wild, Uproarious Comedy
Up until about the 1970s, a movie that was a goofy, possibly slapstick comedy would be advertised as “zany” and “madcap.” Both of those words are less common in recent decades, but still around. By coincidence, both words appeared in English around the 1500s, even though that century isn’t generally remembered as a golden era… Continue reading
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Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe was a famous 20th-Century American novelist who often gets confused with Tom Wolfe, a famous 20th-Century American novelist. Thomas Wolfe came first, and was born October 3, 1900. He only lived to be 37 years old, but managed to become regarded as one of the most important writers in the Southern Renaissance in… Continue reading
About Me
I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer (among other things) located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. No surprise, she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
Check out my other blog, Techlimitics, where I’m grappling with the nature of simplicity. You can also find some of my minor software projects at GitHub. Nothing very impressive. I mostly write tiny utilities in Python.
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Recent Posts
- Sometimes it’s not an improvement
- Do not call your friend…
- Once more, into the breach
- Be Here Now. And Sit.
- Why the fear of dead air?
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