Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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The Fact of Evolution
Here’s an item that touches on two of my passions: good obituaries and the propagation of the theory of evolution. Ernst Mayr, Pioneer in Tracing Geography’s Role in the Origin of Species, Dies at 100 He died as the courage to teach evolution is in doubt across the country. Ernst Mayr was a giant. Here’s…
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Annunciation Catholic Parish on Pittsburgh’s North Side
So anyway my father died last week. Wake, funeral, etc. His death was not unexpected, and he was pretty old and somewhat sickly & suffering, so the services were more on the “celebration of life” type rather than the “holy crap someone just died” variety. Here’s more on him. I have a large family, and…
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My Father
My father passed away last Thursday. I am attending his services now, and I will give the full GoogObits treatment to his obituary, but I wanted to make sure I posted it immediately: Obituary: John J. O’Neil / Addictions counselor and PR man Monday, January 31, 2005By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette John J. “Jack” O’Neil,…
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Carlos Cortez, Legend
Carlos Cortez was the real deal. One of those men who made everything around him seem small. Not because he tried to make anyone feel small– the opposite is true. In the handful of times I’d ever talked to him at a poetry event, he was a living legend to me. All hail Carlos Cortez.…
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Copy/ paste is your friend
Here’s a silly & useless attempt by CBS News to stop people from creating derivative works based on the Thornburgh Report detailing the mistakes CBS made in the Bush National Guard story. After the report was first delivered, a CBS lawyer realized that anyone with Adobe Acrobat could copy/paste the entire text and reuse it.…