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  <title>Mallory's Camera</title>
  <subtitle>Every Day Above Ground</subtitle>
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    <name>Every Day Above Ground</name>
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    <title>Stephen Hawking, Cold Weather, Tulips</title>
    <published>2018-03-14T11:40:54Z</published>
    <updated>2026-06-14T14:28:36Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="https://mallorys-camera.dreamwidth.org/file/117607.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="https://mallorys-camera.dreamwidth.org/file/600x600/117607.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stephen Hawking is dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since math is a struggle for me, the best way I can describe Hawking’s contributions is that he proved the ancients were right:  The Universe really &lt;u&gt;is&lt;/u&gt; a uroboros, a snake eating its own tail.  A Big Bang is a Black Hole in reverse.  Thus will the Universe end as it began.  Or &lt;u&gt;will&lt;/u&gt; it end?  Is its ending only a new beginning?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since that’s the essential takeaway, I’m not sure it even benefits to follow the math.  Anyone who knows anything has always known that it’s all full circle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;###&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, the quaint and scenic Hudson Valley dodged the bullet yesterday.  The blizzard that took out New England stayed 50 miles to our east.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So no shoveling, but damn, it’s cold.  Bone-chillingly cold.  The 30s is often doable in terms of exercising outside, but not yesterday.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max sent me tulips.  As a thank you for editing his public policy essays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mallorys_camera&amp;ditemid=752830" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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