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Mike Dunford was a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studied evolution. Life as an army spouse has since moved him on to Pensacola, where he's currently trying to figure out what to do next. While he's doing that, he writes stuff here, although not usually in the third person. He's also a contributer to The Pandas Thumb. As is the case with everyone else here, his opinions are his own, and do not necessarily represent those of any organization he is affiliated with.
Category: Misc
This is not the post I though I'd be putting up today. This morning, I fully expected to come home from work, post my already-written "I quit" post, and point you all to a WordPress blog I set up...
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Category: Misc
One of my many distractions lately is travel planning. After spending several months living in the wilds of Lower Alabama, I'm getting to take a bit of a vacation. Right now, face a 60-minute round-trip commute to get to...
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Category: Misc
Earlier this evening, Judge Nina Gershon issued a preliminary injunction barring the government from enforcing a law that bars any Federal money from going to the controversial community group ACORN, or any of ACORN's "affiliates, subsidiaries, or allied organizations"....
Posted by Mike Dunford at 12:05 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Misc
The amazing amount of uninformed speculation that's coming out of the mouth of Chris Matthews right now is mind numbing. Speaking as someone who lives and works on a military post, I have absolutely no doubt that I have...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 9:48 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Misc
Yesterday, Greg Laden posted a short response to my post about the recently discovered Apple patent application for an ad-supported operating system. Some of the comments that people left on Greg's post raise issues that I want to respond...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 3:56 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Misc
A number of people (including another blogger here at ScienceBlogs) have weighed in on the recent revelation of a patent application that describes a way to integrate advertising into computer operating systems. The patent application covers both traditional personal...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 8:40 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Misc
You would think that it would be hard to find a statement more outrageous than hopefully-soon-to-be-former-Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell's attempt to prove that he's not a racist: "I have piles and piles of black friends. They...
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Category: Misc
Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul, and Mary fame, passed away this morning from complications of leukemia. She was 72....
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Category: Misc
I don't know if it's me, or if it's really becoming harder and harder to figure out what is actually a right-wing rant and what's satire. Case in point: an anti-Steven-Colbert rant written by someone who bills himself as,...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 12:38 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Life in an Army Family
I just saw a shuttle launch! I haven't been this excited since Christmas Eve, 1985! I would have mentioned I was going to the launch ahead of time here, but things happened kinda quick. Here's a condensed version of...
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