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Continue reading →: Happy Blogday!
First we had Houseday, and now it’s Blogday! (Why yes, it is all about me, thank you for noticing!) One year ago today was the first post on String Notes (although of course the whole stringpage site has been around for a while). Like many beginning bloggers, I wasn’t sure…
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Continue reading →: Happy Houseday!
Today is my house’s birthday, as my house anyway. Much like a stray cat, I don’t really know when its birthday is, though I do know my house is considerably older than I am. We were told it was built in the 1930s, at least the first part, but it…
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Continue reading →: Say what???
Yesterday… pouring rain and cold. And as if that weren’t bad enough, the forecast for last night and this morning used the s-word*, although it was later changed to the f-word**. Sheesh! It’s nearly May, the flowers are blooming, the trees are leafing out… and the prognosticators invoke the s-word!…
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Continue reading →: Spring puppies
It’s spring outside my office. Even inside my office it isn’t so bad, now that I can have the window open most of the time. There are some advantages to being in a seventy-year-old building – the windows actually open. It’s a good year for anemones. They’ve spread into the…
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Continue reading →: Back to Madison
I want to post a few more photos of Madison, though since I’ve been home for an entire week it seems a bit out-of-date. The ice was gone by the time I left, thanks to the torrential rains during my tour of prairie restoration sites. I don’t think the ducks…
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Continue reading →: Walking home
It was a beautiful spring evening, made even more entertaining by this: It flew very nearly overhead. I lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico for a while, home of the Mesilla Valley Balloon Rally. It’s a good area for ballooning in general, so I used to see them soaring overhead…
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Continue reading →: True confessions of a scientist
This is a string blog, so I try fairly hard not to talk about work here. Still, I think anyone who reads this regularly would agree that I work very hard sometimes. It may not be so obvious that I work reasonably hard most of the time, though I do.…
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Continue reading →: Morgan thinks spring
Morgan declared it spring in his world. And of course, the cat is always right, no? During the summer, he spends quite a bit of time in our enclosed courtyard, as close to the outside world as Morgan ever gets. Sunday, after most of the snow melted, he told us…
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Continue reading →: Spring in Pennsylvania
I thought you might like to see some updates on the bulbs. This bed has snowdrops, tulips and daffodils. And here are the crocuses. Looks like about 4 inches, and still falling. Happily, the long trips to New York were the past two weekends, and today I can stay home…
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I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
I’m Phiala most places on the internet.
