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Reinventing Morse: Build your own telegraph kit

How cool would it be to set up a TelegraphNet around the house. Instead of calling the kids down to eat we could send out the message in Morse. hmmm an ya know we have a bunch of pots wire throughout the house doing nothing…oi. Thanks Make…  Reinventing Morse: Build your own telegraph kit.

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SOL STEINMETZ, RIP.

“Sashura sent me a link to this NYT obituary by Margalit Fox of Sol Steinmetz, “a lexicographer, author and tenured member of Olbom (n., abbrev., < On Language’s Board of Octogenarian Mentors)”; Ms. Fox lards the obit with as many word histories (“his surname is the Yiddish word for stonemason”) as she can, and I’m sure its […]

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Who Has Fresh Rye Bread For The Morning?

We do. I have been playing with the Rye recipe into the 5 Min A Day Bread books and am loving this one. It is not the NYC rye of my youth but it is closer than any I have bought or made before. One of the authors is an ex NewYorker so I think […]

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High Wire

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Time and Time Again

This blog goes back 10 years or more…in that time the places I have used to post my thoughts, links and whatnots have shifted from services both self hosted and otherly hosted. I think its now time to think about unifying all the bits and bitness that makes up the loose miasma of my gestalt […]

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