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Longwood Seminars at Harvard Medical School
MCOW Psychiatry Grand Rounds
MIT Open Course
Other sites of this nature sought. Recommendations welcome.

So, it’s early morning and I’m quietly putzing around. The first thing I do every summer morning is open both doors to the house to allow breeze. As I open the back door, I notice that the hook lock is in place. This strikes me as odd, but it’s helpful–I won’t have to step [...]

Man. My arm hurts. But boy, is my new bow SWEET. I’ve already got to repair 6 of my 12 arrows, as the impact into the hay bales is so much harder that I keep loosing points (arrow heads).
Meanwhile, I remain amused by the fact that guys out there struggle to pull that [...]

So, okay, I’m a Roger Dean fan. When all the other goobers in my class were posterizing their walls with the band flavor-of-the-day or Frank Frazetta (zzZZZzzzzzzzZZZZzzzz), I was all about Roger Dean. And for some reason, I felt a need to see again my favorite-ist of favorite posters, the Roger Dean Wizard that graced [...]

Look at my new toy!
It’s my hunting bow. I realized I needed to start practicing with the kit I will be using this September, and so I perused Three Rivers‘ site to ascertain likely prices, then went over to West Town Archery to actually try them, see if they had in stock one of [...]

I peered over the edge of the pond. Below the distracting reflections of the surface, I could see fish swimming about, and I remembered a lesson of my childhood: the fish come up when it is about to rain. I glanced at the sky, although I did not need to, for clearly, rain threatened.
There were [...]

Really tired, but wanted to record my progress very briefly on my ongoing projects.

One more book wiped out from the One From Each; I did a meatloaf type of recipe from Seven Centuries. As the redaction she did clearly created a meatloafy thing and the period recipe created more of a patty/meatball kind of [...]

I’m slowly closing closing down the comments and trackbacks on archived entries on this site, tired of the constant pounding I get from trackback spam, and of course, all the drug spam that I get here is for the prescription drugs that people are often addicted to.
::Sigh:: I see the results of this every [...]

Note to self:
I buy wines without knowing a thing about them all the time. Other than being pretty sure I’m going to like something called reisling, and don’t usually like something called merlot, I can never remember a thing about the wines I’ve tried.
So here’s an entry that’s going to get edited from time to [...]