Looking online before I left, I found only two aikido dojos in Taipei, one high in the forested hills outside of town, and another just a short walk from my wife’s family’s home in the Sung Shan district. That sounded great, so I took my lightweight gi and a white belt and walked over to… Continue reading
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music to the heart
Heard a song entitled “Why I Do These Foolish Things” by the Magicians (Villa Records, 1964), a local Bay Area band, which strongly brought back the same exotic attraction I experienced when listening to the Miracles “Who’s Loving You” (the B-side of “Shop Around”) back in high school (or was it 8th grade). I listened… Continue reading
anoxia
On a random search for some of my online references, I came across this page from the EHP journal which has (one screen up from the bottom of the page) a picture I snapped here in the lab and sent to somebody, I guess, ’cause there it is. The blurb mentions “two California museums” which,… Continue reading
wool socks
Tom grabbed this one as we slogged across the meadow toward the putative mill pond, our backs to Grover hot springs where the rest of our families were undoubtedly warmer.
constructivism vs. genetics
Just as Sraffa’s gesture revealed to Wittgenstein the limitations of logical atomism, so did Jason thoroughly dissolve the boundaries of my social constructivist weltanschaung. Meanwhile, HanShan simply laughs.
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