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Regarding user names and passwords; A best practice note from your friendly neighborhood web dude

Regarding user names and passwords; A best practice note from your friendly neighborhood web dude

Probable June 3, 2020 Wordpress adviceLeave a comment

WordPress being the most-used software on the web these days, sites that run on it find themselves constantly under attack.
Here are some of the things I do to address that.

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As Each Day Arrives

This post comes from a Guest Author April 7, 2020 slice of life

As each day arrives, he will open up his mind. To the suffering and joy he sees in all of humankind. She does not know what will happen, as the world spins around. Fear arises, love comforts, he knows no steady ground. She will …

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Music Theory Lesson 2: Range of Notes

Music Theory Lesson 2: Range of Notes

Garbo Seltzer December 10, 2019 how-to / Music TheoryLeave a comment

As mentioned in the last lesson, we’re working with the knowledge that the musical scale goes on forever in both directions, dipping lower at one end and rising higher at the other.

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Music Theory  Lesson 1; Middle C

Music Theory Lesson 1; Middle C

Garbo Seltzer December 10, 2019 how-to / Music TheoryLeave a comment

It is not necessary to read music to play well. Many musical greats did not and do not. But if the magical system which is music is to be understandable, we have to have a “You Are Here” point on the location map.

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The King of Euralia And The Fairy

The King of Euralia And The Fairy

Probable October 23, 2019 Conversation / fantasyLeave a comment

An excerpt from A. A. Milne’s delightful book  Once On a Time, as published in full at the Esoteric Library

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A Batch of Peanut Butter Cookies in Two Quantities

Probable October 14, 2019 how-to / recipesLeave a comment

This shortbread-like cookie recipe comes in a large and a jumbo size.

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Why laughter is the best medicine.

Why laughter is the best medicine.

Albert Anders October 14, 2019 theory

Why laughter is the best medicine. is short description of how you can be in the timeless now.

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Changing Light

Probable September 8, 2019 fantasyLeave a comment
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Art, Interpretation, and Competition

Jim Short March 9, 2019 theoryLeave a comment

You tell me a painting hung upside down in a museum for years and nobody noticed? I say, great! A new perspective!

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Sometimes

Jim Short March 9, 2019 slice of lifeLeave a comment

Sometimes They tell you things you need to hear

Sometimes They tell you things you shouldn’t hear

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Oatey Biscuity Cookies  for a Family of Five

Oatey Biscuity Cookies for a Family of Five

Probable February 7, 2019 how-toLeave a comment

This oatmeal cookie recipe is adapted from the one on the  Quaker Oats lid. I reduce the sugar, add extra liquid in the form of one more egg and maybe some yogurt. The result is like little bite-sized quick-breads, less short and less sugary, …

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found on twitter

found on twitter

This post comes from a Guest Author December 18, 2018 ConversationLeave a comment

Tread softly because you tread on my words.

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Deity

Deity

Stella Omega November 17, 2018 slice of lifeLeave a comment

I had been in one of those sleeps which do not let go of the heart,
And was thick-tongued and weepy, searching blindly in the dark sleeping car for my papers.

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Stolen Roses

Stolen Roses

Stella Omega November 13, 2018 FictionLeave a comment

Astro, in the light of day, was jeans-clad and sneakered. She wore a white button-down shirt, sleeves rolled up past her tanned forearms. Her dark brown hair was pulled back into a tail, and gleamed with shiny health. “Anyway, I just wanted to apologise.” She held up the bouquet of roses.

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Seventy-Five Cents

Seventy-Five Cents

Garbo Seltzer November 12, 2018 slice of life / webcomixLeave a comment

the economic logistics of public transportation;
from our newest blog member, My Life on a Legal Pad

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lost in translation

lost in translation

Cami Cobra October 24, 2018 webcomixLeave a comment

we try to communicate

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Dead Man’s Shoes

Jim Short October 20, 2018 slice of lifeOne Comment

A poem about shoes. Or regrets. You decide.

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Workhorse Woodies

Ronald Smart October 7, 2018 slice of lifeLeave a comment

No one cared about old woodies. You threw them away and got another one. Who would believe that they would go for $90,000 in years to come? Not I, that’s for sure.

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Ice Age of the Heart

Ice Age of the Heart

Stella Omega October 6, 2018 ConversationLeave a comment

Stella OmegaLyrics are not complete as poetry. They are created with an additional element, and you just can’t take that away- it’s like printing a poem without any vowels. The music is integral to the form- most of the time. And, yes, there are …

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The art of making an ass of myself

Lukas Rönnqvist October 5, 2018 humorLeave a comment

Lukas RönnqvistOne sunny spring day, at the tender age of 25 I was out and about in my favorite place in the world, Stockholm the capital of Sweden. I was walking the streets, not really looking for anything when I happened upon a small …

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Fireflies

Stella Omega October 4, 2018 slice of lifeLeave a comment

Stella OmegaMy daughter was a stay-awake baby. Sometimes, to shorten the process, we would load her in the car and drive out into the lyrical Pennsylvania countryside, watching the colors of night gather in the sky, the green trees enrich their hues as night …

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What’s in a label? Topping, bottoming, Dominance and submission

Stella Omega October 1, 2018 theoryLeave a comment

An essay about BDSM terms. Adult subject, but not graphic or erotic in content.

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A recipe for pasta with broccoli

A recipe for pasta with broccoli

Probable May 18, 2018 how-to / recipesLeave a comment

Prepare your ingredients; Chop the Broccoli into very small florets. Smaller than these.  Figure a half-cup per serving. Chop Garlic fine. Lots! Chop a Cured Meat into small dice; the original was pancetta but I’ve used Prosciutto, Smithfield ham, Black forest ham, Cheap ham …

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