"November 3: 1957, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russia: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik II into orbit, bearing a sole passenger: the doomed space dog, Laika. Controversy eventually arose over the decision to send a stray puppy into a spacecraft that was designed to never be retrieved. But what may seem like cruelty overlooks the pure scientific fact that Laika was a very, very bad dog that deserved to die."
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Farewell, LJ
So I guess I'm retiring this blog. Part of me feels like I need to make some sort of eulogy or something; part of me just wants to move on already.…
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Catching up
The first sentence of this post was "Finally, some breathing room," and then as I was in the middle of the second sentence I got handed…
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Kinda hard to imagine Thomas Pynchon (and not, say, Tom Robbins) writing this paragraph, but there it is on p. 99 of "Inherent Vice":…
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