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Read 52 books. Today, at 1/4 through the year, I should be at 13 books read. I am at 18. Post 180 blog entries. Today at 1/4 through the year, I should be at 45 blog posts published. I am at 24. A dSLR photograph a week. Made it all the way to week three.
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My main page on quotes is Quotes to Make You Think. Additional ones can be found under the Quotes tag. The opposite of good is not evil. It’s indifference. — Abraham Joshua Heschel He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. — Rudyard Kipling Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath…
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I don’t really follow basketball. So, it is odd that I even registered this tweet from Dennis Kavelman, @dkavelman:   Team D2L has 4 schools in sweet sixteen! Go #marquette, #arizona, #msu, #osu! @desire2learn He is excited because four universities who are clients of his company are in the major NCAA basketball championship contest. If only four are…
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I am trying out the Disqus comment system for this blog through the WordPress plug-in. I’ve had an account through them for years for my Tumblr. Not sure why I did not bite this bullet years ago. More and more sites I visit use it. It lets commenters authenticate through Disqus, Facebook, Twitter, or Google. The…
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To the right is a photo of my to-read stack of books at the time. I noticed the March 19, 2008Â date, and thought it would be interesting to see how many of them I have read in the years since. I count 80 visible books. I think I have read 47 of them. Of course,…
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I think I first saw The Great Wave of Kanagawa at a museum in New York in 1992, which I guess would have been the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikipedia says a copy resides there. At the time I was disappointed in there not being more SesshÅ« TÅyÅ. (I have a nominal connection to SesshÅ«.)…
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The Great Wave off KanagawaOriginally uploaded by Ezra S F By Katsushika Hokusai at the Georgia Museum of Art. georgiamuseum.org/about/pressroom-item/prominent-japanese…
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Last Saturday and yesterday a couple friends and I attended AMC movie theater’s Best Picture Showcase. This is an event where the movie theater shows all the nominees for Academy Award for Best Picture. I first attended back when there were only 5 movies. Over the past few years there have been as many as…