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- October 10th, 2008
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Don't Give Us The Money!
There have been times when I've felt like Calvin. Oddly enough, though, this is not one of them. Let me explain. In recent days, stories of bailouts have been popping up in newspapers around the world [not that I read newspapers from around the world
- September 30th, 2008
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A. E. Taylor: Society's Child
There is a certain cachet that comes with being the first person to accomplish a feat. No matter how many others come after you, you have the exclusive right to say, "I did it first". How sad, then, that the first person to conquer Niagara Falls, by
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Asking For Clarification
Okay. Lemee see if I've got this straight: the US [and by extension, most of the rest of the world] is on the knife-edge of a possibly cataclysmic financial crisis. Economic experts across the political spectrum agree that Something must be done, and
- September 29th, 2008
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psalmsofhope has posted a new entry on: Tech Forest
Power Corrupting
First of all, my honest apologies for not posting sooner. Like most bloggers, other issues [what we laughingly call "real life"] intervened. Further, my apologies for not continuing the look at hurricane tracking; I'll try to get back to it in a fut
- September 24th, 2008
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Economics 101
A confession: I know very little about any theories of economics. I know it when I have to deal with it at the supermarket or at bill-paying time, but, generally speaking, I know about as much about economics as your doorstop [maybe a bit less; the d
- September 23rd, 2008
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Joel Robinson: Ulysses and the Sirens
"And having come to Circe he was sent on his way by her, and put to sea, and sailed past the isle of the Sirens. Now the Sirens were Pisinoe, Aglaope, and Thelxiepia, daughters of Achelous and Melpomene, one of the Muses. One of them played the lyre,
- September 20th, 2008
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Dangerous Questions
[This post is mainly for guys; women, of course, are free to read it, but, as they are all too well aware of the techniques revealed within, why would they?] As regular readers of these wrds can tell you, I recently [earlier this week] became a year
- September 17th, 2008
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Watching The Wheels Fall Off...
Is it just moi, or are any of the rest of you on the Blogosphere having trouble executing a three-point turn without encountering Something New about Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice-president? And when are we to hear something substan
- September 16th, 2008
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When He's Right, He's Right...
This will be a very brief post. It's on a topic that somehow didn't make it into the "Pet Peeves" that started this blog, but certainly bothers more than a few bloggers: those bloggers who use automatically starting music on their blogs. More and mo
- September 12th, 2008
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Not A Bad Place To Start
First of all, my obvious apologies to those of you who are vegetarian/vegan. I don'tmean to be sliding my meat into your computer [and an apology to those made uncomfortable by sexual innuendo], but it's surprisingly difficult to find an image to ill
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Something New [to me, anyway]
Sometimes discovering new things is accomplished by hard work; other times, it's just a matter of checking your EntreCard "in" box. Case in point: a new advertiser, Ritualistic, has a featured post on the machinima Red vs Blue. I think I may have see
- September 9th, 2008
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psalmsofhope has posted a new entry on: Tech Forest
Tracking The Killer Winds
Many of my readers may not recognize the red symbol at left, but to those living near the Caribbean, or eastern waters of the Pacific Ocean, it stands for death, destruction, and devastation. It is the meteorological symbol for a hurricane, designed
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shakespeare wuz ere
the ins and outs of living in the bard's town, stratford upon avon -
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Do Not Disturbia...
As anyone who pays even the slightest bit of attention to reality can tell you, things in this life have a tendency to repeat [consider the peppers I had for dinner tonight. Or don't]. Consider World War I, followed twenty or so years later by World
- September 5th, 2008
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More Funambulists
Although it was by no means the only form of stunting at Niagara during the 19th-Century, the most common form of daredevil feat was tightrope walking, or funambulism. Here, a look at a few memorable performers:J. F. "Professor" Jenkins - The strange
- September 4th, 2008
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"the lab" is back in session...
Yeah, Summer is over [for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, anyway]. I took an unannounced vaca for the end of August [saw Joan Jett in a free concert, among other things. Pretty cool], and now, we begin anew the pursuit of Better Blogging Thro
- September 1st, 2008
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Seeing Is Believing
In 1968, as the Vietnam War was at its height, no newscaster was more respected in the United States than Walter Cronkite [left]. Dutifully, he had been reporting on the US incursion based on Government-supplied information. But he began hearing repo
- August 29th, 2008
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Do We Have Too Much?
There is a story [how true, no one is sure] that, at some point during the 19th Century, the head of the US Patent Office actually submitted a letter of resignation, on the grounds that everything that a person would ever need had already been invent
- August 26th, 2008
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Summer Madness
No, no, not that Summer [Donna Summer, in case you're unaware]!!!Yes, that Summer [the season, not the Queen of Disco]. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, our warm-weather bacchanals are almost over. We're already having nighttime lows of around 50 deg
- August 22nd, 2008
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No Sudden Moves
Okay. I've taken a few days to relax [what the Hell was that noise? Is someone out there?]. I've taken as many deep breaths as I can without bringing on [where's that flash of light from?] dizziness.I've even kept away from all those [who is that out
- August 21st, 2008
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The Magic Man
(From time to time, this site will focus on individuals who, while not strictly speaking "daredevils", still made a mark through an interaction with Niagara. We begin with a performer who almost qualifies as a "daredevil", although on a different sta
- August 18th, 2008
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An Open Letter To My Readers
Readers and Friends-First of all, my sincere apologies for what happened to last weekend's scheduled contest. The topic announcement [previous post] had some series issues, which I will address shortly. Possible participants may have been driven away
- August 15th, 2008
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IRON BLOGGER Topic Announcement
Well, it's time. On behalf of everyone involved in the IRON BLOGGER Organizing Team [just me, actually, but it looks more impressive if we pretend there's an army running this thing], welcome to the Iron Blogger Topic Announcement! If you're just fin
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Putting The Brakes On
Earlier this week [Tuesday, August 12th, to be exact], I read an interesting article in USA Today. It looked at the increasingly high costs of transporting goods from one country to another, and speculated on the end of globalization. The article, by
- August 11th, 2008
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Triumph Of The Will
There is an episode of "The Simpsons" where Springfield is hosting a film festival. Everyone in town, it seems, is putting a short film together to enter. That includes money-man extraordinaire Montgomery Burns. He calls in his principle minion, Mr.
- August 10th, 2008
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Bagpipes And Bargains
At the last Celtic Festival The Woman I Love and I attended [a birthday gift from The Woman], a member of one of the pipe and drum corps in attendance opined that I was actually Scotch-Irish, instead of Irish, as I had always believed [his theory ha
- August 7th, 2008
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When The Conqueror Fell...
In our last visit, presenting the unfortunate story of Sam Patch, we learned that success at Niagara is no guarantee of glory elsewhere. It should come as no surprise, then, that success elsewhere is no guarantee of anything at Niagara.Matthew Webb w
- August 6th, 2008
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Iron Blogger Contest Update
Ya know, I've got to learn more about contests before trying to run one! First, I have to remember to put the announcement at the beginning of the post, not the end [is it possible that My Fellow Bloggers don't read all of an entry when they reach t
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Dog Days
My sincere apologies for not getting back here sooner, but it's just been too damn hot and humid around here. In most of the US, these days are known as the "dog days" of Summer. I've heard it explained as everything from feeling warm as a long hair
- August 1st, 2008
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Drawing A Line In The Dirt
I hate to know this about myself, but I am more than capable of John Wayne moments. You know, the scene in the movie where the Duke has listened to the ranch owners snowballing the town folks about how they need the freedom to do what's best for the
- July 30th, 2008
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The Adventures Of The Jersey Leaper
[Before I get into this post, I want to take a moment to thank those of you who are reading this series of articles on the daredevils of Niagara Falls. Special thanks to those of you who've taken the time to comment on the posts. The "Daredevil Era"
- July 29th, 2008
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Open Lab: A Little Of This, A Little Of That
What are we now, a little less than a month into the new "liaison" between EntreCard and SezWho? Maybe it's time to take a Polaroid, as it were, of the situation [not to change the subject, by the bye, but did you hear Polaroid is giving up making f
- July 28th, 2008
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The Most Dangerous Game
The game pictured here is a rather common one, sold in different countries under different names. Almost all of them are played the same way; the blocks are stacked, then players must remove them, one piece at a time. There is usually some limitation
- July 27th, 2008
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A Shaggy-Dog Story
The two characters to the left are probably familiar to anyone over the age of, say, thirty. They are none other than [left to right] Gumby and Pokey. The duo starred in more than 200 short films, painstakingly made by manipulating clay images, one f
- July 23rd, 2008
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If Anyone Asks, I'm On Staycation...
God knows, I need to get out more. Out on the Internet, if nothing else. I just discovered a new concept in leisure activity [according to Google Images, it's somehow related to the image above, but I'll be d____d if I can figure out how]. For those
- July 21st, 2008
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Harry Houdini On Promoting Your Blog
...and I can already see a few of you in the back taking bets on whether I can use the career of the greatest magician who ever lived as a lesson to bloggers. Sucker bet, my friend, sucker bet. Of course I would not bring up an example that I hadn't
- July 20th, 2008
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Voyage Of The Damned - The Adventure Of The "Michigan"
Today, a voyage like the final one taken by the schooner Michigan could not happen. The public outcry, understandably, would be too strong/ Our tastes have changed considerably from those of out 1820's ancestors. But, in their defense, let it be note
- July 16th, 2008
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SayWhat?
Human nature is a funny thing. Sure, most of us, having been raised in the company of other humans, know what we should do in most situations: don't honk the horn at an old person crossing the street, don't take the last piece of pie without asking s
