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		<title>The Pulps Reconsidered, Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bet you thought I forgot about this series, huh? Not so: I needed a little time to take a broader look at the field. (Click here for Part 1 and Part 2.) Someone told me that a lot of 1930s/40s/50s pulps were being scanned and posted on Usenet at alt.binaries.pictures.vintage.magazines, so I went up there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=1443</link>
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		<title>Odd Lots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several people have written to say that green neon sign crosses are common in Europe (where I&#8217;ve been all of twice, sigh) and indicate conventional pharmacies having no necessary connection with marijuana. That would explain a lot; Europe has certainly led the world in marijuana tolerance. Here, however, green crosses have clearly become culural icons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=1437</link>
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		<title>Drink Hard, Live Longer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Judging by the number of times I&#8217;ve seen links to it online yesterday and today, the liveliest Web story in recent memory is an item suggesting that heavy drinkers live longer than nondrinkers. The curve isn&#8217;t linear; moderate drinkers live longer than both heavy drinkers and nondrinkers. The WTF moment lies entirely in the correlation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=1435</link>
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		<title>Odd Lots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I got the Mallo-Ware bowls I bought from eBay, and they were in better shape than they looked in the listing, and Dash has clearly busted his last bowl. Which leads to a thought: I used to prowl garage sales for entertainment, halfheartedly hoping to find something useful. (I once got a completely functional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=1433</link>
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		<title>The Last Box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We moved here from Arizona in 2003, and (as usual) it took us literally years to unpack everything. Some stuff was not meant to be unpacked, really&#8211;I left my vinyl collection and 8&#8243; reel-to-reel mix tapes in boxes on the big shelf in the mechanical room, knowing they&#8217;d be there if I needed them but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=1427</link>
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		<title>At the Sign of the Green Cross</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The closest retail cluster to our house (a mile and a half down the hill) has a fair number of vacant storefronts, but the last time Carol and I went down for lunch at China Wok, we noticed that the storefront right next to the restaurant was no longer vacant. Who had moved in was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=1423</link>
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		<title>Odd Lots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last very mobile couple of years, I&#8217;ve had some of my best ideas while driving across the featureless plains of Nebraska, including a way to solve a plot/tech issue that had prevented me from further progress on The Molten Flesh: How Protea sampled the powerful and very paranoid Sangruse Device. In looking back, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=1416</link>
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		<title>Dash and the Fruit Bowl Bomb Habit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All dogs have quirks, and Dash brought a new one into the house with him: When he&#8217;s done eating, he picks up his bowl and carries it around. He shows it to us, and if we don&#8217;t take it and re-fill it, he drops it from mouth height. When he was three months old (see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=1415</link>
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		<title>The Mutability of Immutable Decay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boy, did this come out of left field: Something in the Sun alters the rates of radioactive decay of certain isotopes. Read that again, and slowly. You are in the presence of an exceedingly rare thing: experimental results that call into question something once thought to be about as settled as science gets. To summarize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=1411</link>
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		<title>Daywander</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re at a dog show in rural Greeley, Colorado, a little north of Denver&#8211;and right smack dab next to a huge cattle feedlot. Now, I&#8217;m a caveman and a realist&#8211;manure is the price we pay for beef&#8211;but that stuff sure do stack up and make its presence known. We kennelled QBit and Aero to simplify [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=1409</link>
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