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Bluefish Way

Bluefish Way
The life of Ralph and his cats

August 4, 2018

342: Years

~6 Years With WordPress~ Yes, 6 years ! Thank you for being my friend. 342 posts ! I wrote some drivel, didn’t I ? 29,037 comments. What did we talk about ? 137,709 spam stopped. Shame really, as I would now have 10 suitcases...

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Take Back the Sky

Take Back the Sky
Because the first private manned US spaceship should be named SERENITY!

August 12, 2018

Browncoat Ball Offers a Unique Opportunity for Fans to Celebrate Their Love of Firefly and Serenity

In 2004, the Chicagoland Browncoats decided to hold a one-night banquet that was planned as a formal Sino-Western ball like the one in the Firefly episode “Shindig.” The event was such a hit that Browncoats decided not only that they would do it annually, but also that they would host it in a different city […]

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Esme’s Cloud

Esme’s Cloud
The Wanderings and wonderings of a sentient cloud.

August 13, 2018

The Moral of the Tail . . . Don’t Vex a Poet My Dear (Filth invovled)

Is it fair to judge a poet’s nature from their verses alone? Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84 BC–c.54 BC) thought not, …

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gigglinginthegutter

gigglinginthegutter
love life

May 26, 2018

Conjugation

(Our Mother, Our Brother ) Our Other, whose heart be heaven Hallowed be thy pain Thy kingdom’s won If we be one On earth as it is in heaven. (Anima, Animas, Animamus) Amen For Clarissa Pinkola Estes. (Thank you)

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Skeptical Inquirer

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

August 14, 2018

Skepticism Reloaded

Forty-two years have passed since the birth of CSICOP, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, CSI), and its magazine, Skeptical Inquirer. Soon after its birth, there was a wave of skepticism across the globe. A great visionary was at the center of the explosion: Paul Kurtz, a philosophy professor who saw skepticism as a global worldwide endeavor. The Australian Skeptics took off in 1980 with Mark Plummer as president. A decade later, in the mid-1980s, CSICOP encouraged skeptics all over the world to form their own groups.

Mark Plummer, then executive director of CSICOP, and Wendy Grossman, founder of the magazine The Skeptic in the United Kingdom, toured Europe in this mission, resulting in many new groups.

Paul Kurtz also defined skepticism as he saw fit for the movement in his book The New Skepticism (1992). This variant is what we would now call “scientific skepticism.” It is distinct from the ancient Greek variety of skepticism that denied that we could acquire knowledge and wanted us not to take a stand—to suspend judgment.

Skeptics today do take a stand. They insist on skeptical inquiry, which is at the core of scientific research, as a fundamental and indispensable tool. At the same time, they also acknowledge that the body of science represents reliable knowledge of a real world. More importantly, they stand up and advocate for what we know about science and pseudoscience, even when others (including friends and colleagues) frown on us. Skeptics today are committed to scientific realism.

Initially, the movement focused mainly on fringe science claims ignored by the scientific establishment. A decade ago, Kendrick Frazier, editor of Skeptical Inquirer, extended the scope. In the book Science

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Oaklandon

Oaklandon
The Unofficial Oaklandon Community Website

May 30, 2018

THE PRIZE REBUS

Indianapolis News,Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1878

THE PRIZE REBUS

THE PRIZE REBUS

The First Prize of a $15 Suit of Clothes offered, by the WHEN Clothing Stores for a correct solution to the Prize Rebus published in the Holiday Edition of the INDIANAPOLIS ILLUSTRATED TIMES is awarded to Mr. Chas. J. Negley, Oaklandon, Marion county, Ind. The Second Prize of a $6 Overcoat is awarded to Mr. A. R. McAlpine, Brightwood, Marion county, Ind. No other correct solution received. The following is a correct solution of Rebus:

A due regard for economy in one's expense account is of vast importance to all, who aim to build fortunes in times like the present. The foundation of success ia anchored to a saving and prudent disbursement of money. Recent improvements in the art of ready-made clothing have induced lovers of economy to investigate this branch of trade. Men have come to understand that a genteel fit may be secured without incurring the expense which high-priced tailors are pleased to charge. It is incumbent upon man or boy to purchase clothing from the dealer that offers the greatest inducements. A careful inspection of stock will convince all that time and money are saved by buying from

THE WHEN CLOTHING STORES, 5 & 6 Bates Block and 10 W. Washington st.

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Sex, software, politics, and firearms.
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August 3, 2018

How to get a reliable home router/WiFi box in 2018

My apprentice and A&D regular Ian Bruene had bad experiences with a cheap home router/WiFi recently, and ranted about it on a channel where I and several other comparatively expert people hang out. He wanted to know how to get … Continue reading →

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August 13, 2018

Better Bring a Bindle Buddy.

Remember going off to summer camp and returning home to find your family had moved without leaving a forwarding address? It's sort of like that... Bindle

Getting shut out of your your own home is certainly disconcerting (to say the least.) If you frequently connect to your home's network infrastructure from the outside world you'd like to think it will be there when you need it.

Unless you pay extra for an assigned "static IP Address", there is no guaranty that the publicly facing IP address for your home's router is going to stay the same. If you need to connect to your home's network from the internet at large you will need a Dynamic DNS service provider to keep track of any IP address changes that might occur. DYNU

For many many years I had relied on Darktech.org to track my local network as InfinitelyRemote.DtDNS.net; which was working splendidly right up to the point when they "pulled the plug" on the service. Luckily my IP address had not changed for quite a while so I was still able to stay connected by directly access ...

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