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Category Archive for 'Flotsam and Jetsam'

Goodbye Tony the Butcher

A great man from our childhood has passed on. You may or may not find his story incredible or uplifting, but his little butcher shop on Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven was a centerpiece of our lives growing up. I still can feel the sawdust on the tile floor of his shop, and the enormous hanging […]

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The Dark Days End

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the […]

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Weekly Ponderence

That’s all there is. Enjoy the experience folks.

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One of my son’s favorite books at the moment is the Book of General Ignorance. In today’s lesson, he informs me that none of kilts, bagpipes, haggis, porridge, whisky and tartan that we so readily identify as authentically Scottish actually emanates from Scotland. While kilts seem to have been invented by the Irish (who are […]

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Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,    Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless    With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,    And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;       To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells    With a sweet kernel; […]

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On Blackpacking

First off, Backpackers in South America (and I assume other regions) are the least diverse group of people that I’ve ever come across. Pretty much everyone is white. Like super white Go check out the musings of a terrific former student, who spent a couple of years trekking around South America.

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My call is going to be William Nordhaus for his work broadly in Environmental Economics and more specifically on the Economics of Climate Change. I would have predicted a share with Wallace Oates had be not passed away in 2015 or William Baumol who sadly passed this year. I think it is time for Environmental […]

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Merry Christmas

… from Pottersville I suppose.

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Good King Wenceslas

Enjoy! My favorite version of this song came from an old Christmas show I heard on a local NPR affiliate about 15 years ago, it was from Brooks Williams. The show was called something like Ornaments and Icing. Can’t find it anymore, and even emailed Brooks and he doesn’t have it recorded either. Still a […]

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I would love to run a series of posts that simply ask readers to guess whether or not the information is from the Onion. Maybe this one is too obvious, but here goes. Suggestions for Eliminating Food “Waste” “Avoid impulse buying by only going to the grocery store for one ingredient at a time. Hire […]

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