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Thought For the Day: It Is A Capital Mistake To Theorize Before One Has Data
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (22 May 1859-1930)
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Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Capital, Data, Fact, Mistake, Theorize, Theory, Thought For the Day, Twist
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Specter of A Well Aimed Gun
Between the chase scenes, I believe science fiction grapples on some of humanity’s biggest questions. Do you? Specter of A Well Aimed Gun by Michael Doyle Specters of a gun take aim Innocent of the perceptions slain Fooled by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Analogy, Analysis, Big Questions, Convention, Dare, Deception, Deduction, Dream, Electric Dream, Essential, Exact, Fact, Fantasy, Fiction, Fool, Glasses, Grapple, Gun, Hesitation, Humanity, Inception, Influence, Innocent, Interplay, Inventions, Lift, Operation, Paralysis, Perception, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Reach Out, Scene, Science, Science Fiction, Seen, Shake Down, Slay, Specter, Thought, Translate, Veils, World
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On Found Light
Reviewing my camera chops in real brought me to write this. On Found Light by Michael Doyle It’s not so much the light But where you’re in it To get this just right You have know where to bend it … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Adjustment, Ambient Light, Back, Below, Bend, Bright, Brush, Camera, Canvass, Capture, Catch, Chin, Chops, Complex, Contrast, Creativity, Dark, Day, Delicate, Depth, Detail, Details, Eerie, Even, Exposure, Fact, Feeling, Flat, Forgot, Found, Front, Grain, Harmony, Hatchet, Images, In It, Infinite, Integration, Interplay, Interrogation, ISO, Kill, Light, Light Sensitivity, Low, Manipulate, Moments, Music, Mystery, Night, Noise, Over Exposed, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Range, Reduce, Rembrandt, Reveal, Rich, Right, Say, See, Sensitivity, Shadow, Shape, Shot, Sight, Simplicity, Softness, Soul, Stop, Story, Subtle, Transcend, View
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Mathing the COVID-19 Curve
Day 7 of Na/GloPoWriMo! The target objective? “…a poem based on a news article.” My subject today can be drawn on any number of articles plastered throughout our daily news periodicals to the point it cannot be escaped really. But, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1918 Influenza, Absence, Application, Base Reproduction Number, Basic, Breath, Business As Usual, Change, Common Sense, Consistent, Contact, Contact Rate, COVID-19, Crucial, Current Data, Curve, Daily, Death, Decrease, Degrees, Depend, Direction, Doubt, Early Action, Epidemic, Escape, Exponential, Fact, Fate, Feedback Loop, Fire, Flatten, Gasoline, Good Habits, Grave, Heal, Heed, Horror, Hospital Beds, Hour, Humans, Illness, Impact, Increase, Infected, Infection, Keep Calm, Land, Linear, Little, Lives, Logarithmic Scale, Map, Math, Medical Care, Mid-April, Mind, Mitigate, Model, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nations, Nerves, News Article, Non-Linear, Numb, Numbers, Outbreak, Overblown, Overflow, Pandemic, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Population, Potential, Power, Practice, Project, Proportion, Reduce, Remove, Resiliency, Sad, Safe, Same, Sanitation, Save, Seal, See, Seen, Shown, SIR Curve, Social Distancing, Society, Staggering, Steady, Straight Line, Supplication, Susceptible, Tale, Time, Trajectory Rates, Trouble, Understand, Vaccine, Virus
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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Alter, Evidence, Fact, Facts, First Principles, Inclination, John Adams, Passion, Sttae, Stubborn, Things, Wish
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In the Tall Grass
Halloween Poem #28 In the Tall Grass by Michael Romani It’s there in the tall grass Out in the muck and mire That tall, tall grass That feeds on your desire Never letting you pass Out there in the tall, … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Alright, Bluff, Comfort, Crown, Cycle, Desire, Discern, Doubt, Down, Fact, Fear, Feed, Forget, Forgiveness, Found, Give, Giving, Grass, Grief, Ground, Halloween, Hold On, Jester, Keep, Lay, Learn, Lesson, Letting Go, Live, Love, Mire, Muck, Natural, Nothing, Our, Out, Outlive, Pass, Past, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Puzzle, Real Man, Redemption, Regret, Sacred Heart, Sacrifice, Salvation, Save, Search, Secret, Self, Selfless, Simple, Suffice, Sympathy, Tall, Tight, Token, True, Truth, Unnatural, Want, Youth
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First Principles: An Immigrant Coming In Good Faith To Become An Assimilated American Should Be Treated Equally With All Others
“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Assimilate, Become, Birthplace, Creed, Discriminate, Equal, Fact, First Principles, Good Faith, Immigrant, Nothing, Origin, Outrage, Predicate, Theodore Roosevelt, Treated
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First Principles: A President of the United States Should Be Mindful That He Serves His Party Best Who Serves His Country Best
“The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.” – Rutherford B. Hayes
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Tagged Best, Country, Fact, First Principles, Mindful, Partt, President, Rutherford B Hayes, Serve, Strive, United States
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