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Eclectic and commonly infrequent blog entries by Ken Loge

A Ladder of Trust

When I was in college I worked as a theater technician. The job was very physical and required me to learn about rigging systems, set construction, and theatrical lighting. As a new employee I was assigned mostly menial work, which involved pulling nails and staples from wood that had previously bee...

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The Farmer Toy

Farmer Well Hung

So what is this peculiar plastic toy? It is obviously from a high quality and surely very expensive farm toy set our son received as a birthday present when he was a toddler. Like many toys depicting humans and animals, the level of detail present in the mold is not exactly anatomically correct (o...

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Text Editing Hacks

Have you had a text-free day? By that I mean have you made it to whatever hour of the day you are reading this and not typed or tapped any characters on an electronic device? I would wager that you haven't, and I would also wager that you, in the company of so many, could improve the efficiency of y...

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Healthy Computer Use

One of the most common health problems arising from regular computer use is repetitive stress injury. This essentially means we are treating our bodies like a machine and doing too much of the same thing for too long. By doing this we are forcing our bodies to respond with inflammation. This inflamm...

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