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Author Archives: Barry Pomeroy
Using your Hands
In the west we are taught to be fastidious about eating with our hands, and in fact, we want our hands to be as far from our food as possible. We make exceptions, of course, finger food at luncheons and … Continue reading
Posted in recipes
Tagged Cooking, Eating with your hands, No Egg Banana Bread
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Anecdotal Evidence and Climate Change
I was talking about anecdotal evidence tonight, such as you hear if you bring up global climate change in January in the northern climes: “Global Warming!? I don’t see any warming around here.” Likewise, I have heard that a ninety … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, News of the World
Tagged Biosphere, Climate Change, Eric Frank Russell, Legwork, Smoking
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Ramming Reluctant Words
Learning to do more than just ram otherwise reluctant words together is a long and difficult procedure. That is why, generally, I am a fan of blog writing. So much of it is arduously un-self-reflexively narcissistic, but it does more … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged Author, bible, James Fenimore Cooper, Marshall McLuhan, mote in your eye, Publish, Students, Writing
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The Practice of Blogging
The purpose of blogging right now, in Canada at least, is to inform the public about a certain radio announcer. My colleagues out there in the blogosphere are debating the various truths or untruths of media statements and many of … Continue reading
Posted in News of the World
Tagged activism, Antares, british columbia, burnaby, jian ghomeshi, Kennedy Space Center, Kinder Morgan, NASA, Orbital Sciences, Philip Metzger, Richard Berman, slap suit, SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic
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From an Armchair on Mars
I’ve had a few blogs, now that I am considering the question. I kept a record of the first summer on my twenty foot outrigged wooden sailing boat, the Whimsey, and called it a logbook. Later I kept an account … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged blog, blogging, building a cabin, cabin in the forest, face on Mars, first colonist on Mars, NASA rover, South East Asia, traveling, whimsey, wooden boat
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Inviting the Public into your Bedroom
I kept two journals when I was younger and told myself that one was boring, although I have no confirmation of that, and the other I said was interesting, although that has never been confirmed either. To write in a … Continue reading