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Matt and Mrs.Whatsit tagged me with the 7-meme and 8-meme and I have been struggling with the ideas as to how to respond. I am usually a sucker for memes. I always do them. But there is nothing - weird or not - about myself that I have not already mentioned on this blog at one point or another (…
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The very first article in then brand-new journal PLoS ONE was published on December 20th, 2006. And the Earth trembled (literally - there was an earthquake in San Francisco on that day). And the world of scientific publishing was never the same since.
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Sexuality in old age
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That's kinda clever, but I don't think it's gonna work with my Speed Graphic. (Actually, none of the lenses for any of my cameras have a tripod socket.) And in 35 years, I've never had any great difficulty with a normal neck strap.
I wish I had a camera good enough to warrant accessories like that.