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It Snows Up Here. My Husband And I Have Conversations.

January 7, 2011

@maitri: The roads are slick up here in northeast Ohio. Lots of cars where they shouldn’t be. To think D scoffed at my 4WD vehicle. I have no problem with snow. It’s only when it sneaks up on me while I am ill-equipped to deal that snow and I have words. Last night, Ms. No [...]

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College Football, Academic Integrity, Football, Integrity

January 4, 2011

Back in the year 2000, in that Paleozoic miasma when the internet first went mainstream, a new menace arose to occupy us overworked and underpaid graduate teaching assistants: easy, cut-and paste plagiarism. If memory serves, we caught a few stars of the university’s football team in the act and waited for a) the department and [...]

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2010 In Travel Photographs

December 21, 2010

Note: Thanks to geobloggers Silver Fox and GeoTripper for inspiring me to do this post. Check out their beautiful travel photographs, too. Tweet

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Neil deGrasse Tyson In Cleveland

December 10, 2010

“We have arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” –Carl Sagan Your wish is my command, dear [...]

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Krish Ashok Does The Creation Museum

September 17, 2010

One of my peeps, as in snarky, Tanglish*-speaking person of Madras** origin, tires of Cincinnati and visits the Creation Museum. It’s great stuff, so please head to his blog and read it all. This paragraph, in particular, cracked me up because of its conclusion. Cincinnati is a large city with levels of urban excitement that [...]

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I Saw This

August 10, 2010

Ok WHAT. I must be completely out of touch with youth pop culture of the times because I haven’t the slightest clue what a Pop ‘n’ Drop is. I must be getting old, too, because neither do I want to know what it is, nor are my nieces allowed anywhere near it. (Give me a [...]

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Seersucker Suit And Sari

July 27, 2010

They go well together. Especially during desi weddings and heat advisories. Tweet

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Homegrown Produce

July 21, 2010

First harvest from this year’s garden. These two took almost seven weeks and there are many more on the vine that will be ready in another couple of weeks. It’s a start. Tweet

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