Nevis Laboratories, the physics lab where I work, is setting up an outreach program. The goal is to give the general public an idea of the work we do here. I’ve become the “social media coordinator” for the lab. Nevis now has a presence on three social-media sites: Facebook 
, Twitter 
, and Instagram 
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I’ve written before about the gravestones of two dogs buried on the Nevis property. In that post, I talked about clipping away the vegetation (mostly raspberry bushes) to keep the path to the stones clear. Since I wrote that post, I’ve visited the gravestones every year in May. The task has become harder each year. Raspberry bushes…
As a member of a nature religion, I’m supposed to be familiar with the plants and animals in the neighborhoods in which I live and work.
Who has two thumbs and a $4000 car repair bill? This guy! I don’t know if this will impact my ability to go to Free Spirit. I have to see if I can start getting into “saving mode” again now that I’m out from under my regular medical expenses.
This year I organized my Passover seder at the home of Sabrina and Michael. This year, Passover and Easter fell on the same weekend. We wound up blending those two and the pagan holiday of Ostara into PassEastara. The seder went well. There were a total of 11 people there, making it one of the largest seders…
The year 2015 is a threshold year for me with respect to Live-Action Role-Playing. This year, I’ve been away from LARPing for as many years as I was involved in the hobby.
It’s a general day of memoriam and memories of actor Leonard Nimoy. Here’s my Spock/Nimoy story. I was a science fiction fan from childhood. In third grade, a teacher loaned me a copy of Eleanor Cameron’s The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet. That book started my fascination with SF that continues to this day. I started…
Every year, my folks take me out to shop for clothing as a birthday present. We don’t do this on my birthday, because that would get us into crowded stores and parking lots due to holiday shopping. So we wait a month, until January, when travel won’t be so hectic. This past weekend my father drove us…
Most of you have probably heard me talk about jewelry shop on Shapeways. Originally I started learning about 3D design and discovered Shapeways as part of a process to recreate a ring, precious to me, that I lost on my 53rd birthday due to my illness. Later I started to design other Wiccan and pagan jewelry and…
A couple of weeks ago, I was hanging out with some friends who are in a polyamorous relationship. I was the only one there not part of that poly family. As we were sitting around chatting, I asked a somewhat personal question of one of the others. I acknowledged that it was personal, but I was still…