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Hair… When I first posted about possibly getting a haircut, I never imagined that people would even think twice about it. I mean it’s hair, and unless your armpits never had a hair follicle I’m sure you understand how very commonplace it is. Yet here I am, writing about it again, because months later people are still leaving comments about it—asking questions, sharing opinions and dispensing advice. I’ve also been getting e-mail about it, and backstage, half my search referrals…

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In the course of my searching for my old hair photos and then catching up on at least six months worth of check balancing, a disturbing little thought came to me: I use very little of what I learned in school. I’ve spent over half my life in classes, from pre-kindergarten to a bachelor’s degree, and I’ve learned everything from the story of Beowulf to finding eigenvalues for a matrix. Yet here I am doing “research” for my “report” on…

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First person to guess what I’m making on the calendar gets to be in a topsy turvy toon. Share this post:

I have a new obsession: celtic knots. The Celts were tall, vain, and prone to drinking. The Greek geographer Strabo once wrote of them: “To the frankness and high spiritedness of their temperament must be added the traits of childish boastfulness and love of decoration. They wear ornaments of gold, torgques on their necks, and bracelets on their arms and wrists, while people of high rank wear dyed garments besprinkeld with gold. It is this vanity which makes them unbearable…

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I’ve never really considered myself a geek. I know too many people who have so much more technical knowledge than I do. I never did audio/video in school, never took a programming class, and never put together my own super computer entirely from scratch. I don’t own a PDA, a laptop, a cellphone, or an iPod, and though I drool over computer catalogs almost daily and work on various computers and operating systems both at work and at home, I…

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