memories for Nov 25

2007

2007 Nov 25
grains of sand in an hourglass

Come December, and the end of the year is nigh
and though the air is dry and warm
the sky glimmers, shimmers with cloudy gray
and the waning sunlight casts long shadows
upon the cold blue sea

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2006

2006 Nov 25
war and surgery (a metaphor revisited)

The problem with health care professional talking about the Iraq War is that we always seem to find ourselves with mixed metaphors.

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2006 Nov 25
w’s karma

Today I heard an awful story about an Iraq War veteran. 25 years old, beautiful wife, beautiful kids. On his third tour in Iraq, he runs into an IED. Now he’s paralyzed from the neck down, raging angrily in the Spinal Cord Injury unit.

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2003

2003 Nov 25
blog from anywhere

As I have noted previously, I have no inclination to try and install wikieditish since it relies on trapping URLs that don't exist. I learned early on in my travails with Blosxom that if you don't generate a 404 error, this will cause some spiders to get trapped in recursion.

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