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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I want to post a few more photos of Madison, though since I’ve been home for an entire week it seems a bit out-of-date.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 →: Er, oops?
I am here for a conference: That’s the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Monona Terrace conference center in Madison, WI, one of my favorite cities to visit. I’m staying in the Hotel Ruby Marie, just down the street. I wanted something less expensive and less bland that the conference Hilton. The risk…
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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.
