Rambles at starchamber.com

Take a break and read my latest story. It’s the solution to the puzzle “Write a Valentine’s story involving scissors, a trombone, and Kraft American cheese singles.”

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Through the door we could hear her sobbing, a slobbery gulping sound that verged on inhuman. I feared for the integrity of her body. Something must surely give way.
Cynthia looked at me and shrugged. “If you need me,” she said, “I’ll be practicing in the courtyard.” I decided to try one more time. “Amelia, I’d [...]

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You look terrific! Happy Valentine’s Day!
Did I sound insincere just now? I’m terribly sorry. But you know I meant it: you really do look terrific. It’s only a shame that sincerity is so often a casualty of Valentine’s day that my credibility has been stretched to its credit limit. Oh well.
Okay, I suppose it’s all [...]

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“Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass” is an honest-to-goodness view from the trenches of American higher education. I’ve taken lab classes like this. The object is to converge on the right answer at any cost. Any enlightenment is purely coincidental.

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BioSpace.com is an impressive biotech news site.

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HCI Bibliography : Human-Computer Interaction Publications and Resources

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Why try to educate small children when you can scare them out of their wits? Little Suck-a-Thumb and his macabre companions are reminders of a time when nobody worried about the huge therapy bills they were going to incur when their children grew up. These gruesome German nursery rhymes instruct by intimidation.

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This is a wonderful thing. Somebody (okay, his name is Jeff Baham) is so obsessed with the Disney Haunted Mansion, that he not only made a website about it, he made an amazingly good comprehensive website about it called Doombuggies.com. Make sure and do the whole tour of the mansion. Take a stroll. This is [...]

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Science News Online. They’ve done an impressive job of putting old issues (back to 1992) on line.

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Zeitgeist three buzzword crap factory from dack: web economy bullshit generator. Not terribly original, but well done.

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