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The Skinner Box With Icons

I am not a deep thinker. I’m more of a deep drinker. My education is scattershot. I often boil concepts down to thumbnail sketches and run with them. Take childhood development. Yeah. Take my childhood development, please, as Rodney used to say. Ugh. Forget about me. I meant

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So Many Tuesdays. So Little Trash

I don’t make anything anymore, except maybe trouble. I used to build things and make things and cobble things together. This had a tendency to produce leftovers. Trash. While I used to squeeze every bit of use out of everything, and burn whatever was left over from the

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The High-Risk, High-Reward Milieu

This video might be interesting to any number of people from most any walk of like. It’s like catnip to anyone who ever constructed a commercial building. I think it’s the greatest example of construction, ever. You can build things taller, or wider, or goofier (I’m looking at

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Is Niagara (1953) a Good Movie? Beats Me

We have a very large collection of movies, many of them old. The movie business isn’t ancient. It’s possible to be fairly conversant with its entire history if you have a big enough hard drive, and skip Fletch movies and similar shallow puddles of pixels. I used to

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Tuesday. Let’s Take Out the Trash, Pixel Style

Well, the bookmarks are overflowing again. I really did intend to read them. I guess. Whatever. I’ve been reading Huckleberry Finn in Spanish, and it’s giving me an aneurysm, so I’ve fallen behind, or lost interest, or something. Pike County accents don’t seem to translate well into castellano,

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Oh Man. That Bo Diddley Beat

They call it the Bo Diddley Beat. That’s Bo Diddley doing the Bo Diddley Beat. Bo didn’t want you to get confused about who was doing what, and let the audience know right off who was who. Hey Bo Diddley! If Bo ever had a publicist, I’ll bet he

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Greatest Hits

For Dorothy

They load them on the plane roughly, it seems to me. But that is the end of it. They are rough men with tender hearts

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Sagas and Compilations