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  • Have You Got Another Jump I Could Hoop Through?

    Speaking of spooky psychic stuff, today I was preparing a lecture when two things struck me almost simultaneously: Sloan’s song “She Says What She Means” popped into my head, and I had to pee like a racehorse. I scurried to the bathroom; relief filled me as I emptied my bladder, all the while humming the…

  • NaNoWriMo 2007

    It’s nearing the end of October, and that means it’s almost November, which is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! To get further practice for my new career in fiction writing, I’m going to give it a go again. The idea is to write an entire novel in one month. I tried this last year, and…

  • Capital Idea

    I was reading a charming little article at New Scientist, called “How Does it Feel to Die?”, and came across the following passage: Despite the public boasting of several prominent executioners in late 19th-century Britain, a 1992 analysis of the remains of 34 prisoners found that in only about half of cases was the cause…