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Today’s Memes & Thoughts for 2023-10-26

Happy Thursday, y’all,… well, what’s left of it. The following is a collections of memes posted and related thoughts in blog-order, meaning beginning from the events/posts at the end of the day and ending with those from the beginning of the day. (10:30PM) Tonight I attended the The Russell Frank Lecture Series: A Revolutionary New Radio Telescope for Nevada by Prof. Hallinan at UNLV. One thing…

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Beyond Utopia: A Brief Reflection 

2023-10-24 Beyond Utopia at Cinemark Orleans My usual MO when it comes to movies is escapism, thus all the sci fi and fantasy movie watching. It’s going to take me a while to process what I just saw… I knew going in that it was a documentary about North Korea, but I had no idea how the filmmakers were going to tell their story… my heart breaks for how much needless suffering there is in the…

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CALL TO PARTICIPATION: How Much Daily Exercise Is Enough?

After a few years working at Full Sail University, sitting every day at our cubes, I think eight out of the 12 of us were suffering from some form of back strain or other related issues. I don’t know if my teaching colleagues at the public schools I taught at in California had similar problems, but then I didn’t sit next to them all day/every day for years. But something was different sitting at…

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One reason why I rarely took my students outside…

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Oh the Joys of Getting Old

9AM 2023-09-22 I just drank my second dose of pre-colonoscopy prep… I am not used to quickly drinking 16-oz of fluids all at once, much 32-oz. Ugh. I’m not in pain, this isn’t life and death (as far as I know right now…) but feeling bloated and needing to be camped out next to a toilet is no fun. Add to all that I’m aware that I really need to step up my daily exercise game. It turns out that…

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Meditations on why Time is such a Bai@%^ch

I keep thinking about the story of the young boy in the candy store staring at all the candy, anxiously trying to decide what one candy to get with his allowance, standing next to an adult who could afford to buy everything in the store but is under strict doctor’s orders that he’ll have another heart attack if he doesn’t stop eating candy. The analogy with time doesn’t quite work, except maybe…

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Begin The Job Search with a Good Breakfast 

New week job searching… gotta begin the week with a great breakfast at Black Bear Diner (6180 W Tropicana Ave, Las Vegas)… 😎

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Bans Don’t Work, Right?

Ban treatment, ban books, bans words, but don’t ban guns because bans don’t work…. Did I get that right?

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