Little Comforts, Little Reminders, Welcome Home

Toasted English Muffins with Kerry Gold Butter and Dark Roast Coffee is a perfect “comfort food” for me.
My wife tells me that Filipinos also enjoy the same, where it’s known as “Kape at Pandesal” and loosely translates as “no hard bread in a warm coffee”.
Toasted English Muffins with Coffee alw

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Updating my Banner Pictures (Social Media)

1500x500 pixels at 72ppi is the current "optimal size" for banner pictures in Facebook, Twitter, and Mastodon, so these are the current three pictures I'm rotating between for:

Tayledras (K3KBF) (@TayledrasK3KBF) / Twitter
Tayledras (@tayledras) - Mastodon
Ken

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A still more glorious dawn awaits

“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”

― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
“A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled wi

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#AsanAside #EverydayLife #FavoriteQuotes #CarlSagan #COSMOS #Sunrise #SunrisePhotography #TerryPratchett

The Parable of the Guarded Bench

When We Forget to Ask "Why?"
(The Parable of the Guarded Bench)
There is a story about Russia in the days of the Czars. In the park of St. Petersburg Winter Palace there was a beautiful lawn, on that lawn a bench, and next to that bench, two guards. Every three hours the guards were changed. Yet no one coul

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Passing Glances

Every once in a while, I get knocked off my feet and overwhelmed by the fierce intellect that stands before me. This is someone who is light-years beyond me and made a remark that is so obvious and so brilliant that I wish I could have just one moment more with them.
This morning was such an experience. I was totally blown away by the ferocity and intelligence

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#AsanAside #BrainDroppings #Intelligence #Sapiosexual #Serendipity

The Jiminy Chip

"THE JIMINY CHIP"

I consume a voracious amount of fiction — from eBooks and paperbacks, to movies, and games. The best literature, movies, and games stick with me not for their visual assault on my imagination, but for the depth of their stories and their concepts.

In some trashy and terrible Sci Fi movie I watched ages ago, the most intere

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#AsanAside #BrainDroppings #altruism #Behavior #Ethics #Morality

Our Innermost Selves Made Manifest

Of BELLE and SWAMP THING
In the 1982 horror movie, SWAMP THING, starring Louis Jourdan and Adrienne Barbeau, Dr. Alec Holland creates a formula that transforms you in the creature you most resemble as your psyche. Dr. Alec Holland becomes Swamp Thing, Anton Arcane (Louis Jourdan) becomes a werewolf, another of Anton's servants

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