The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach

Author: mongreldogs

  • The Start of Summer

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    Everyone has their own unique signs that summer is upon us, the signature sound that signals the academic year is winding down. For me, it’s “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears. More below the fold.

  • Two Finales (2): Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

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    As mentioned in a previous post, recently two of my favorite shows reached their conclusion.  While the Battlestar Galactica finale left a lingering bad taste in my mouth (The Cylons had a plan all along?  Bollocks!), the conclusion of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was gripping and satisfying.  In fact it was one of the…

  • Week 19 in the Program

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    Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 284.8 | -8.0 | -83.6 A pretty good week for me… which is baffling, as I have not (as far as I know) done anything materially different in any of the past three weeks, but my weight loss has fluctuated wildly.  Odd.   It’s…

  • Week 18 in the Program

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    Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 292.8 | -2.0 | -75.6 After a couple of see-saw weeks, I’m back at a usual weight loss number.  Most likely this reflects a return to “established” weight — the weight so easily put on over Spring Break came off relatively easily but now…

  • Two Finales (1): Battlestar Galactica

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    In the past couple of weeks, two science fictions shows I follow have had their finales: the reimagined Battlestar Galactica and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. (OK, so technically, the word is still out on Sarah Connor, but many people feel it’s doomed, and although I have no inside information, the reasoning seems solid.) Very…

  • Week 17 in the Program

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    Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 294.8 | -9.2 | -73.6 Blood Pressure | Systolic | Diastolic * | 130 | 90 From a weight-loss perspective, this was a very good week: nearly ten pounds. But of course, given the spike upward last week, that just about puts me where…

  • Week 16 in the Program

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    Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 304.0 | +4 | -64.4 This is the first week in which I’ve gained, rather than lost weight, and it’s a simple morality tale: It’s also the first week in which I went “out of the box” a significant amount. While at Lunacon, I…

  • Lunacon 2009 (4): Sunday

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    After the hectic pace on Saturday, the con wound down somewhat before concluding on Sunday. I attended a panel on Galileo, another one on world building, and one on World Domination. Then I attended the dead dog filk and went home. Along the way I finally met up with someone I’d been on the lookout…

  • Lunacon 2009 (3): Saturday

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    Today was the busiest of the convention. I gave blood; saw Mercedes Lackey and others hold forth on building fantasy worlds; participated in a discussion on financial crises in sci fi; participated (sort of) in the Masquerade after all; caught about half of a surprisingly good 1940 adventure film; and caught all of a not-at-all…

  • Lunacon 2009 (2): Friday late night

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    One of the fun things about cons is that they go on and on into the late night (at least by my standards). I went to a couple of late-evening sessions last night: “Strangers Have the Best Candy” and “Adult Filking”.