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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

More from Jim Dao, NY Times about Afghanistan

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Jim Dao of the NY Times is following a combat unit on their entire deployment to Afghanistan from pre-deployment through the getting back ho...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Talking About Dante Again

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Followers of this blog know I had a "Dead Poets Society" book group in Iraq beginning last July.  The first book we read was Infer...
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Monday, August 9, 2010

Unfriending on Facebook

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Unfriending is an ugly word.  But in the virtual world it is very easy to make a friend you know very little about.  Most of the friends I h...
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Sunday, August 8, 2010

Back to Riding for the Team

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Today was a small but important milestone on my road back to racing.   And I am not talking about contending for wins.   At its best, my abi...
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Friday, August 6, 2010

Piss Bottles

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In writing about daily life in Iraq, I neglected to write about Gatorade bottles.  Specifically, empty Gatorade bottles.  I never went anywh...
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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Writing for the blog Periodic Tabloid: gravity and Pseudoscience

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July 30, 2010 |  Neil Gussman Recently the lead article in the  Science Times  profiled a string theorist who claims gravity does not exist...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Visiting Pittsburgh--Nigel's First Foster Family

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Today we got up at 3:45 am to drive to Pittsburgh for a math conference where my wife is a presenter.  Our girls are working, traveling and ...