Monthly Archives: November 2025

  1. Winners, Losers, and Screens

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    November 3, 2025 by libroshombre

                Bill Gates, who knows a bit about winning, said “Success is a lousy teacher.  It seduces smart people into thinking they …
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  2. Confusion, Erasers, and Phonetics

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    November 3, 2025 by libroshombre

                Sure seems like there’s more confusion afoot than usual, but I suppose confusion’s a constant throughout human history.  Even Daniel Boone …
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    Category: abbreviations, alphabet, Arkansas, libraries, phonetics | Tags: , ,

  3. Actaeon’s Dogs, Reading Neurobiologically, and de Gaulle

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    November 2, 2025 by libroshombre

    The eminently browsable Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable has revealed Ovid’s list of the fifty dogs who were once …
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    Category: animals, books, dogs, libraries, literacy, mythology, paper, print, reading, reading brain | Tags: , , , ,

  4. Roger, Venn, and Confiscius

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    November 2, 2025 by libroshombre

                We swim in a sea of symbols: acronyms, emojis, icons of all sorts, etc.  As old Confucius declared, “Signs and symbols …
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    Category: abbreviations, libraries, libraries and librarians, library associations, pirates, politicians, politics, symbols | Tags: , , ,

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