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Meerkat Meade: August 2009
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Happenings at and around Meerkat Meade. Monday, August 31, 2009. It's New Hamster Time. If all goes well, tomorrow evening we will be getting a new hamster. The Great Hall and Basement are cleaned and prepared with fresh nesting material. We have a good supply of hamster food. And our poison ivy, which dissuaded us from getting a hamster last week, is faded to almost nothing - certainly no risk to a little baby hamster. Will post here and on Twitter with the news. Send the author a donation. End of the L...
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Meerkat Meade: January 2010
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Happenings at and around Meerkat Meade. Saturday, January 02, 2010. Last night we saw Avatar. In 3D at the Cinemark Egyptian Theater at Arundel Mills Mall. Thomas was impressed. Don got motion sickness and had to leave the auditorium and go throw up. I've found a lot of discussion online about the question of whether the stunning new 3D process used in Avatar. Now, I have seen other 3D movie in theaters, and have never had any trouble before. None of them have been the "REAL D 3D" used in Avatar. Did any...
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Meerkat Meade: Another Idiot From Virginia
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Happenings at and around Meerkat Meade. Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Another Idiot From Virginia. A while ago Time Magazine ran an article. Debunking Jenny McCarthy's claim that vaccines cause autism. In response, they received (and printed) this letter:. Natural Bridge Station, VA. Hypothesis: Vaccines cause autism. Science has proven that hypothesis false. QED, E.M.D.W. After all, James, science can prove falsity but never truth. It with people from Virginia? You are stuck in Virginia.]. I feel sorry for...
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Meerkat Meade: What We're Watching on TV
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Happenings at and around Meerkat Meade. Sunday, March 28, 2010. What We're Watching on TV. Here are some of the things that we've been watching recently on TV. The Big Bang Theory:. Certainly the smartest comedy on TV. If you're a fan, geek, or nerd (or if you know and love fans, geeks, or nerds), you must. Watch this show. And if you don't fall into one of those categories, what are you doing reading our blog? Of the three shows in the Family Guy. Not as tasteless as South Park. Seems pretty pointless&#...
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Meerkat Meade: October 2009
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Happenings at and around Meerkat Meade. Saturday, October 10, 2009. As you may recall, in June 2004 we started converting our collection of over 1,500 VHS tapes to DVD. It's long past time for an update. The most recent tape we transferred contained the following:. Space Precinct: Two Against the Rock. The Tic: Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil. Twilight Zone (classic): Ring-a-Ding Girl. Saturday Night Live: Best Commercial Parodies. Whatever Happened to Devo? Rugrats: Chuckie's Red Hair/Spike Runs Away. Once we're...
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Meerkat Meade: May 2009
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Happenings at and around Meerkat Meade. Monday, May 04, 2009. Here's the group picture:. And here's Thomas as Darth Vader. His helmet is made of folded and glued cardboard. And here is the last costume we presented, Don as the ultimate Snow Queen: a steampunk drag queen cocaine dealer ( Snow. Queen, get it? Send the author a donation. Subscribe in a reader. Send the author a donation. Subscribe in a reader. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Meerkat Meade is the home of costumer/collector Thomas G. Atkinson.
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Meerkat Meade: May 2012
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Happenings at and around Meerkat Meade. Thursday, May 10, 2012. My current project of moving old journals and such to Evernote continues apace. By the end of the eyar, I have confidence that I'll have the total framework established: one entry for every significant day of my life, along with navigational infrastructure like calendars and such. Here's something I'm pretty proud of (although as I say this, that question from Friends. Floats through my mind: "Is patheti-sad a word? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Meerkat Meade: September 2009
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Happenings at and around Meerkat Meade. Saturday, September 05, 2009. Long ago the four nations lived in harmony. Thursday, September 03, 2009. We have a name for the new hamster: Orion. So our new guy is officially Orion, a stellar hamster who is destined to be a mighty hunter. If he holds still long enough, I will try to post a picture of his three spots. Send the author a donation. Subscribe in a reader. Tuesday, September 01, 2009. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). And writer Don Sakers. The mascot and sym...
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Meerkat Meade: February 2010
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Happenings at and around Meerkat Meade. Tuesday, February 02, 2010. Humans, Persons, and Others. Matthew Cornell raises a really interesting question: Are you still human when you're under general anesthesia? If self-awareness is what makes us human, then what are we when self-awareness is absent? It's not just general anesthesia, either. What about dreamless sleep? What about the state of "flow," when one is so focused on a task that self-awareness vanishes? Still not a person. A chimpanzee? Legally, no...
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Meerkat Meade: The Moral Equivalent of Religion
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Happenings at and around Meerkat Meade. Monday, July 04, 2011. The Moral Equivalent of Religion. One of the great unappreciated facts of life in the United States is that we don't need religion. We have something just as good. What is religion for (besides enriching the ruling class)? It binds a people together in common beliefs. It provides a basis for morality. It inspires people to strive to achieve the best within themselves. Most of all, this secular, civil system has its morality: the equality of a...
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