The Repeal of Gravity Blog
Blog URL http://blog.repealofgravity.com
Located Newport, New Hampshire USA
Tags photography, English language, humor, thought, ideas
Personal blog of a resident of Newport, NH. Some photography is included. Lately the blog has primarily been focused on my many New Year's Resolutions.
Latest Blog Posts
- 02009 New Year's Resolution #35: The Non-Resolutions on Nov 17, 2009 in all NYR02009
This particular resolution isn't really a resolution at all. Instead, it is a way for me to sort of take credit for some "positive" things that I've been doing without having really ever resolved to do them. They're the sorts of things that could hav...
- 02009 New Year's Resolution #34: Feed the Vampires on Oct 31, 2009 in all NYR02009 science
I used to donate blood very frequently. I went in for apheresis donations (platelets) quite regularly. I have lost count of how many pints of blood product I have donated over the course of my lifetime, but I know that it's somewhere well north of te...
- 02009 New Year's Resolution #32: Failure Is Not An Option on Oct 30, 2009 in all NYR02009
Here we are in the 44th week of the year and I'm just now typing up my 32nd New Year's Resolution. At this point, there is no longer anything optional about failing to live up to my goal for New Year's Resolution #5. ["I resolve to try to make at lea...
- 02009 New Year's Resolution #33: Join the Coupon Moms of the World on Oct 30, 2009 in all NYR02009
Money is scarce. There, I said it.I have always looked at myself (at least from a frugality standpoint) as a millionaire who doesn't have his millions. That is, I have never been particularly thrifty.These two things are at odds, and something must c...
- 02009 New Year's Resolution #31: Grow My Own (Or Try, Anyway) on Oct 20, 2009 in all New Hampshire NYR02009
I carved a jack-o'-lantern last week to bring to the Keene Pumpkin Festival. I did my carving about three days earlier than I should have done. As a result, my pumpkin was starting to look a bit pathetic by the time it made its way to Keene.Nonethele...
- 02009 New Year's Resolution #30: Be More Like Everyone Else on Oct 14, 2009 in all NYR02009
So far, every one of the tens of thousands of words that I've typed in this blog has been typed using the old tried and true method of hunting and pecking. That's right, folks: I am likely the last of the non-touch typists. This means that I have rea...
- 02009 New Year's Resolution #29: Why I Aughtta…! on Sep 23, 2009 in all NYR02009
Suddenly, it has become clear that my lawn mowing hours are not reliably my best thinking hours. This afternoon, as I was mowing the lawn, here's what occurred to me:In 02001, I did not once say "twenty aught one".In 02002, I did not once say "twenty...
