Tinkers by Paul Harding A wonderful exploration of two lives. A man in his eighties on his death bed, his last few days and past life in retrospective, and the man’s father. THe father is subject to epileptic seizures and we see the world in a way that many of do not perceive. The dying […]
Tagged reviewI had borrowed Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry: Recipes and Techniques for Year-Round Preserving from the Central Rappahannock Regional Library, but it is a very popular book right now and so it had to be returned. I have requested it again and I’m number three on the waiting list. BUT, I thought, perhaps there is a blog associated […]
Tagged cooking, food, RecipesThese are my links from December 21, 2014. The first has to do with a recent study related to actions when one has low-risk prostate cancer. The others have to do with some interesting sites I found for interesting, informative answers to lots of different types of questions. ‘Surveillance’ may be safest for low-risk prostate cancer […]
Tagged active surveillance, curiosity, education, howto, learning, mri, neverstoplearning, prostate cancer, science, science video questions answers, technology, video, youtubeA couple of APtBS links from December 2014. In the first you’ll see a link to a video of one of their performances that made the top 10 list at Drowned in Sound. The second may be more about Oliver’s tastes than those of APtBS in which he lists the top 10 things that ended in […]
Tagged A Place to Bury Strangers Several items that appeared after the closure of the venue Death By Audio closed Death By Audio’s Edan Wilber On What Happened With Vice, and What’s Next – “But I don’t need Death By Audio to be this thing that people remember forever and ever and ever. If you were there and it was important […]
Tagged death by audio, ripdbaCrooked Numbers (Raymond Donne Mysteries) by Tim O’Mara A very accessible and interesting tale of a teacher’s and former policeman’s involvement in uncovering the mysterious surroundings of a former student’s death. Set in Brooklyn and Manhattan with a decent comparison of the differing cultures on each side of the Brooklyn Bridge up through Central Park […]
Tagged mystery, reviewThe average age of those listed in the ten obituaries in the December 10, 2014 Free Lance-Star was 67.8. The median was 73.4 with a sample standard deviation of 19.46. The ages ranged from 23 to 89. This is the fifteenth day I’ve been collecting this data. The mean of  obituary average ages using {77.375,64,74.143, 62.5, 55,66.8333, 74.11,71.27,68.82, 76.92,63,76.71,70.75,76.24} at Wolfram alpha is […]
Tagged obituaryOutrage: An Inspector Erlendur Novel by Arnaidur Indridason. Another captivating crime thriller by Indridason. The good side, the warts of Inspector Erlendur carry through this sordid tale. Indridason tackles the issues for the victim, the family of a victim of drug-induced date rape.
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Obituary average, December 21, 2014: 70
The average age of those listed in the ten obituaries in the December 21, 2014 Free Lance-Star was 70. The median was 82.5 with a sample standard deviation of 18.16. The ages ranged from 47 to 100. This is the sixteenth day I’ve been collecting this data. The mean of  obituary average ages using {77.375,64,74.143, 62.5, 55,66.8333, 74.11,71.27,68.82, 76.92,63,76.71,70.75,76.24,77} at Wolfram alpha […]
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