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Friday, September 8, 2023

Rode Alpine Climbs Near Grenoble

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In 2014, a 197.5km stage of the Tour de France ended with  the climb from Grenoble to Chamrousse   This weekend, I achieved one of my bicyc...
Sunday, September 3, 2023

Talking About Language, America, the Cold War, and Sherlock Holmes on a train in Austria and Switzerland

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On the train from Vienna to Zurich, I sat at a table with Weiran and Matilda.  Weiran is a professor of computer science at the Univer...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Ig Nobel Moment on a German Train

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Brain activity in dead salmon On the train from Utrecht to Frankfurt, I sat at a table with Max, a German man in his thirties on the way to ...
Monday, August 28, 2023

Escher Museum, The Hague

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While I was in The Hague, capital of The Netherlands, I visited the M.C. Escher museum. His works are illusions within illusions. Here are s...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Anxious people. A Novel. By Fredrik Backman.

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  I just finished Anxious People: A novel by Fredrik Backman.   It is hilarious. Really. Actual Laugh Out Loud Hilarious. Below is the firs...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

This Week I Joined the Red Rose Veterans Honor Guard

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  This week I joined the Red Rose Veterans Honor Guard. A veteran helicopter pilot I know suggested I join the group. The This Week Red Rose...
Monday, August 14, 2023

Revisiting the Line Between Good and Evil

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More than three decades ago, I read A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich  by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This short book brought him out of obsc...