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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Food: Retuning cheese making
From the beginning, my desire to make cheese was rooted more in a desire to find a way to preserve milk I might actually have in excess at my farm than any other thing. That is, I never set out to make true Cheddar or Ricotta. Instead, I want to make Innisfree cheese using time-tested … Continue reading Retuning cheese making → Continue reading
Tagged Cheese, learning, mistakes, simplicity
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Seeing the world in bricks: Distant Tower pico/sub scale modular build
Yeah, yeah, I need to work on my photos… DLH Continue reading
Tagged Architecture, Landscapes, Modular, Picoscale, Subscale, Towers
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Writing: Dear scientists: please stop ruining science fiction
There is an aspect to science fiction some members of the scientific world seem to have forgotten about: most often, science fiction is speculative fiction. That is, it is not always a story about what is, or even what we imagine could be, but rather a story about what might happen if something was. I […] Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Writing
Tagged imagination, limits, Science Fiction, speculation, Uncategorized, Writing
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Random thoughts from a wandering mind: The scale of talent to skill
Most of us find ourselves in awe of those videos of a little kid, maybe just five years old, who can sit down at a piano and pound out a Mozart sonata like he was born with the instrument in … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy
Tagged age, desire, determination, Outcomes, practice, Skills, Talents, time
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Philosophy: Send in the clones…
I had a far ranging debate last night that, among its several features, touched on clones. They weren’t what that debate was really about, and this post isn’t really what that debate was about. But, it got me thinking about … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy
Tagged clones, Definitions, Individuality, observations, preconceptions
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