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Beppe did it, so of course I had to as well. If you have a weblog, you can click below and do it, too.

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Boston’s transit authority, the MBTA, shuts down the subway system around midnight. Businesses (including restaurants, bars, and dance clubs) don’t close in Boston until 2 am. There used to be a "night owl" bus service that (barely) supplemented the T on Friday and Saturday nights from midnight until 2. Now you should just drive drunk, [...]

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Dragon’s Treasure is the sequel to Elizabeth A. Lynn’s Dragon’s Winter, but it’s readable on its own. I read Dragon’s Winter when it came out several years ago, and so I was a little hazy on the backstory in Dragon’s Treasure, but it went fine. I was happy to revisit the characters, and Lynn has [...]

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Martin Brookes’s Fly is a lighthearted romp through a serious subject. (Doc Smartypants, that terminology is just for you!) As a genetics major, I did my share of raising, drugging, and examining fruit flies. Brookes puts this ubiquitous educational workhorse into the context of weighty advances in our understanding of genetics, speciation, embryonic development, and [...]

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This is the first time I’ve seen a Cast Iron Plant (Aspidistra eliator) blossom: And one of my hoyas is filled with blossoms. Here’s a closeup of Hoya lanceolata bella:

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Oh that Beppe! He has no resistance, and he led me into this by his example! You scored as Emergent/Postmodern. You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don’t think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have [...]

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It seems to be the season. I’ve seen several I like. Here’s one I picked up off of Noli Irritare Leones. Copy this whole list into your blog. Bold the things that are true about you. Add something that is true about you. 01. I miss somebody right now. 02. I don’t watch much TV [...]

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Salman Rushdie has an article in TheStar.com: Just give me that old-time atheism! (via Arts & Letters.) I’ve not read any of his books, so I was interested in seeing what he had to say. Unfortunately, he has just as simplistic and limited a world-view as that which he is skewering: It is among the [...]

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Rivertyde has tagged me for the current book meme. Here are the four questions and my answers: What is the total number of books I’ve owned? Well now, that’s extremely hard to say. I currently own around 600 books. But my book-buying life has spanned, in addition to the regular across-town moves to a new [...]

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