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  • Classification

    Apropos of absolutely nothing, here’s how I classify people into the four Hogwarts houses: Many people ignore the dark side of the Gryffindor mentality, as exemplified by Fred and George, who are bullies, like James and Sirius before them, and extraordinarily poor losers (see their reaction to Cedric Diggory in the [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 7:34pm EST
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Mrs. Peel’s Feelings on the Subject of Today’s Weather

    Number of comments: 10
    According to the weather stations, we’re supposed to be getting snow right about now.  So I wrote this post last night and set it up to go live today. Lots of vulgarity after the jump – I hate cold weather.  Seriously, this is incredibly pottymouthed even for me and has some [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:00pm EST
    by Mrs. Peel

  • A Complementary Pair

    Number of comments: 5
    The following are actual text messages from today. Will:  …(the other option is that if we’re both negative squares, there are imaginary numbers involved, and I had trouble finding a joke in there) Me:  Well, I am a complex woman. Will:  Maybe it’s a sine. Me:  This conversation is getting exponentially more disturbing. Will:  Yeah.  [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:47pm EST
    by Mrs. Peel

  • The Utility of Gift-Giving

    Number of comments: 9
    I read an interesting article today (NYT link) on the economics of gift-giving.  The author’s point can be illustrated with this chart.  Click to embiggen. Basically, when you give someone a gift, you are increasing their wealth by the cost of that gift.  However, the recipient’s value of the gift – [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:02pm EST
    by Mrs. Peel

  • LOOHOO…SAHER

    Number of comments: 10
    So, I was adding items to my Amazon wish list (by request…I actually think wish lists are kinda tacky, but my friend asked me to make one, and my mom expressed interest), and I remembered that I don’t have a complete set of chess pieces due to various adventures at [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 9:03pm EST
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Review: Going Rogue by Sarah Palin

    Number of comments: 10
    I don’t care for nonfiction in general or biographies/autobiographies/memoirs in particular.  So I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Going Rogue. Sarah Palin’s memoir is entertaining, frequently amusing (I laughed out loud several times), and even inspiring.  She tells the story of her life, from being a small girl in [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:10pm EST
    by Mrs. Peel

  • After I checked my mail today

    Number of comments: 4
    …I ran into the house yelling, “WOOO!” and holding the package from Amazon over my head. Yes, Going Rogue has arrived! Review coming soon-ish. [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:18am EST
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Quick note on mammograms

    Number of comments: 10
    If you don’t have risk factors, then no, there’s no reason to start getting mammograms at 40.  Especially since breasts can be damaged by mammograms.  However, if you do have risk factors, such as family history (in my case, my 80-year-old grandmother just had a double mastectomy due to her [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:32pm EST
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Random happy thought

    Number of comments: 10
    I read a comment from someone over at AOSHQ that “King David” Petraeus could never be President, because he wouldn’t be willing to kiss butt.  Apparently, Petraeus hates reporting to Congress and having to “explain things to his intellectual inferiors,” or something to that effect. Does that make anyone else really [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 5:00pm EST
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Number of comments: 7
    Twenty years ago today.  Thank you, Ronald Reagan. I went to Germany in the summer of 2000, and one of the things that struck me was the huge difference between East and West Berlin.  Even in 2000, East Berlin was still grey and drab and utilitarian, while West Berlin was a [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:43pm EST
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Speaking of holidays

    Number of comments: 10
    It’s Guy Fawkes Day, you guys!  Find your local Briton and congratulate him on Britain going another year without Parliament getting blown up!  Then help him set off some fireworks and burn a dude in effigy!  WOOO [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:48am EST
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Holidays

    Number of comments: 10
    So, Halloween was this weekend.  It actually didn’t occur to me to go to a party, despite the fact that I know a guy who has a huge open house Halloween party (with swing dancing!) every year.  I’m just not someone who enjoys putting on a costume and going to [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 1:40am EST
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Epistemology Concluded

    Number of comments: 10
    As those of you who read the comments know, Matt did indeed finish his post.  Go check it out.  I like his distinction between rationality and coherence.  Coherence is precisely what is so appealing about Christianity – it just makes sense.  The whole story hinges together beautifully.  Take the story [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 6:57pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Epistemology Continued

    Number of comments: 10
    Yeah, ok, I’m tired and don’t feel like writing a long post on philosophy tonight.  So!  Poll time! Let’s follow that up with a poll related to tomorrow evening: [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 9:12pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Epistemology

    Number of comments: 10
    This is a placeholder for a post to be written later, maybe tomorrow night.  I am trying to get at something over at IB, and I don’t think I’m doing a good job, so I’m going to think about it some more and see what I come up with.  In [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:04am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Random Post

    Number of comments: 10
    I don’t actually have anything much to say, but I feel guilty when people visit my site and there’s nothing new up.  This is why I try to keep my traffic low.  I can only imagine how Ace feels. So…uh…how about some odds and ends? I just killed a bug by smooshing [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 10:13pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Our long national nightmare is over

    Number of comments: 10
    ThinkGeek has developed the Tauntaun sleeping bag, for real! WANTAGE (This product was originally an April Fool’s Day joke, but so many people thought it was awesome that ThinkGeek promised to look into making it real, and apparently, they have succeeded!  I just got the email about it a few days ago.) [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 11:45am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Review: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

    Number of comments: 10
    Well, I am about a third of the way through The Paradiso, so I’m not exactly finished-finished.  So this isn’t really a review-review.  But then, most of my reviews aren’t, so here we go! So.  For those who don’t know (I actually didn’t, much to my lasting shame), The Divine Comedy [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 2:20am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • More on “safe zones”

    Number of comments: 10
    So, I’m reading the Divine Comedy now.  My copy of The Inferno is the Longfellow translation, spruced up and re-released in 2003 as a Barnes & Noble classic with new footnotes and some “discussion questions.” One of the discussion questions:  “Where [i.e., where in Hell] would you place certain recent American [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 9:07am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • There’s just one small problem.

    Number of comments: 10
    THAT‘S NOT OHM’S LAW. Person #1 over at xkcdsucks makes a good point about the wording, but no one seems to have pointed out that P = R*I*I is not Ohm’s law.  Ohm’s law says that I = V/R.  P = V*I is Watt’s law.  Ohm didn’t discover anything to do [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 6:32pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Bumper sticker of the day

    Number of comments: 8
    “Republicans are the only religious zealots I fear.” So, let me get this straight.  You DON’T fear the people who murdered thousands of your fellow countrymen for the crime of existing, but you DO fear people who…pull a different lever at the ballot box? Way to sort out your priorities. [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 8:48pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • The Bitmap File Standard

    Number of comments: 10
    YOU GUYS THIS IS TOTALLY AWESOME: Have you ever wondered how IrfanView knows what to do with the long string of binary numbers that represents a bitmap (or other image file format)?  Or if it did ever cross your mind, did you dismiss it, figuring that it was complicated and weird?  [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 8:00pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Review: Gilgamesh, translated by Stephen Mitchell

    Number of comments: 10
    Y’all may recall that when I started my Great Books reading project, the first book I picked up was Gilgamesh, translated by a couple of scholars.  Several people recommended the Stephen Mitchell translation for its literary value, so I checked it out as well. The scholarly translation I read gave a [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 9:17pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Why You Are Wrong

    There’s a little blurb going around Facebook:  “No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.”  These individuals are supporters of Obamacare. Hate to break [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 12:08am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • “Review”: Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants by Lee Goldberg

    Number of comments: 3
    And before you guys get on my case about professional fan fiction, (a) my dad bought it for me and (b) Lee Goldberg is one of the writers for the show, so it’s not fan fiction. Anyway, there are a few books about Monk.  This one brought Sharona back for some [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 9:43pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Thoughts on Silence of the Lambs

    Number of comments: 10
    So I just watched Silence of the Lambs for the first time (I was 9 when it came out, which is waaaay too young to watch a movie that gross).  You’ve all seen it, so rather than a review, here is a collection of thoughts I had (and things I [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 9:57pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Am I the only person who noticed this?

    Number of comments: 10
    C’mon, someone else had to notice. ‘Cause only losers DON’T remember minor details from webcomic strips written 6 years ago. Right? [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 11:50pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • That’s it

    Number of comments: 10
    I’m done with XKCD. Done. [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 6:10pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • I Got Nothin’

    Number of comments: 10
    I keep coming up with good blog ideas and then forgetting them.  (I am thinking of writing up some of my musings about fairy tales as related to contemporary romance storylines, but that will take a few hours.) So, um, open thread?  Ask Mrs. Peel Friday?  I dunno, whatever. [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 12:35am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • “And then my conscious smote me.”

    Number of comments: 10
    I can’t believe I’m reading this crap. [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 1:13am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Random Assertion

    Number of comments: 10
    I DO dream in color.  I also CAN read in my dreams, regardless of what Batman: The Animated Series tried to teach me in my impressionable youth. Last night, in fact (or possibly this morning?), I dreamed that my parents had come over and left Pepper at my place while I [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 10:32am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Official Mrs. Peel Endorsement

    Number of comments: 9
    MR. CLEAN MAGIC ERASER. OH YES. YES. [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 9:23pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • No swine flu vaccine for me

    Number of comments: 10
    I never get flu shots anyway, but if I did, I sure as hell wouldn’t get this one: I have read media reports and have understood that it usually takes 6 to 9 months to develop a flu vaccine AFTER the flu strain has been identified. The traditional process is to [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 7:59am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Dark Energy and Obsolete Scientific Theories

    Number of comments: 10
    Or, Why Mrs. Peel Thinks Cosmologists Are Full of Shit Back in the day, philosophers and scientists were convinced that light passed through a medium called “the ether,” now generally called “luminiferous ether” to distinguish it from other theories involving a substance called “ether.”  This theory started with Newton and persisted [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 2:31pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Random Placeholder

    Number of comments: 9
    Since I’m too tired to research my big post tonight, here is a random placeholder.  I was going to give y’all a conversation we had at work today, but it wasn’t funny typed out.  Suffice to say, when my quality engineer said, “That one is…A and T,” we all laughed. [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 10:24pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Harry Potter and the Missing Muggles: A Guest Post by Matthew E. Miller

    Number of comments: 10
    You know what we haven’t had around here in way too long?  Wonkish discussion of Harry Potter!  Matthew kindly obliged with an insightful essay, beneath the fold.  He makes a very good point about the portrayal of Muggles in the HP series and the wizards’ attitudes toward them – even [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 9:00am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Odds and ends

    Number of comments: 10
    Would the world have come to an end if they had just let that poor rabbit have a friggin’ bowl of cereal? If the only job you find acceptable is a very specific job that exists in only one place, you might have to make some sacrifices for it. The bookshelf excision [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 8:20am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Star Trek: The Next Bookshelf Dilemma

    Number of comments: 10
    So, my library excisions continue.  I reread a few Terry Brooks, and Elfstones was pretty good, but still, I didn’t change my mind about chucking all of his.  Now I’m on my Star Wars & Star Trek trade paperbacks.  A few years ago, I got rid of Kevin J. Anderson [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2009, 11:21am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • That settles it

    Number of comments: 5
    Chinese holly IS the devil’s plant. I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE, CHINESE HOLLY.  OH YES.  I MAY HAVE TO DIG UP THE ENTIRE FLOWERBED TO DO IT, BUT I WILL DESTROY YOU. [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 10:15am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • The Return of Ask HayZeus Thursday

    Number of comments: 10
    I think it’s time to bring back this wonderful tradition!  Post your questions for HayZeus below.  I’ll start off: 1. Would you like to do an Ask HayZeus column on my blog?  I already have a soliciting-questions post all ready to go and everything! (If not, we’ll just do an Ask Peel [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 7:28pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Just wondering

    Number of comments: 10
    How many robberies, sexual assaults, and homicides do we have to have on campus before the Texas Legislature deigns to allow us to defend ourselves? [...]
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    Posted: July 26, 2009, 11:27pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Hi, Eddie

    Number of comments: 10
    How are things going in St. Louis?  Good?  Good. (*ahem*) [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 9:50am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Synergy

    Number of comments: 10
    The combination of punching and the moon landing anniversary naturally leads to my posting video of the greatest moment in space history.  Behold! [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 8:02pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • A Terrible Temptation

    Number of comments: 10
    So, there’s a show that comes on after Burn Notice.  It stars this guy: and every time I see his face, I want to punch it. Is that wrong? [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2009, 12:04pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Hey, Doug

    Number of comments: 10
    The Steve formerly known as Ed Snate is looking for you.  I’ve chosen not to speculate as to why.  But if you want to tag up with him, he should be stopping by here. This post brought to you by the People for Using Obscure Blogs to Catch up with Fellow [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 10:20am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Burning question

    Number of comments: 10
    So, let’s say you’re a wizard, and your Animagus form is a cat.  But you’re allergic to cats.  Would you, in your human form, be allergic to the hair & dander left behind by your cat form? These are the hard-hitting questions, folks – questions that just don’t get asked anywhere [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 8:57pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Grass on the field

    Number of comments: 10
    I could have sworn I saw Derbyshire say something on the Corner just the other day in which he heartily endorsed Nabokov.  I can’t find the link now, BUT! I did discover that he wrote a glowing review of Lolita. You know, if I were on record as having made some [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 1:59am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • How’d that work out for you?

    Number of comments: 5
    Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie said that (according to some website, anyway). Presumably, she immediately added, “MY TEETH OH DEAR GOD MY TEETH ARE FALLING OUT!  HOLY SHIT, MY [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 12:47am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • Library Excisions, Updated

    Number of comments: 10
    I’m chucking a bunch of the multi-culti junk we had to read for IB.  I had already gotten rid of One Hundred Years of Solitude, much of which I have sadly been unable to forget.  Like Water for Chocolate and Pedro Paramo made the cut this time (I would forgive [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 10:00am EDT
    by Mrs. Peel

  • I made cookies this weekend.

    Number of comments: 8
    And lo, they were delicious. [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 10:14pm EDT
    by Mrs. Peel
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