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    Patapsco Days
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    Kickout
    Patapsco Days

    Kickout

    Robert Hamill 15 Jan 20216 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    In 1980, just out of college, I got an internship in a large company to do revenue forecasting. The combination of economics and math was…

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    Ari Lox
    Fiction Sci Fi Tales of Cubicle and Home

    Ari Lox

    Robert Hamill 29 Jul 20206 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    How many square miles could he see from his satellite home, parked presently in its geostationary garage above the Amazon basin?

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    First Home
    Sci Fi

    First Home

    Robert Hamill 21 Jun 202029 May 2022Leave a comment

    They would follow tracks in the snow as soon as the Sun God lightened the morning sky.

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    Gabby
    Patapsco Days

    Gabby

    Robert Hamill 15 Jun 202011 Aug 2023Leave a comment

    Gabby, you shouldn’t worry about things you can’t control.

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    Complicated Logic
    Tales of Cubicle and Home

    Complicated Logic

    Robert Hamill 8 Jun 20206 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    I'll buy whatever I want. Stop using complicated logic against me. It's unfair.

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    Church Clothes
    Tales of Cubicle and Home

    Church Clothes

    Robert Hamill 1 Jun 20196 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    “No, you can’t go like that! Shorts to church. No. No. No.”

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    The Littlest Blackbird
    Fiction

    The Littlest Blackbird

    Robert Hamill 15 Aug 201830 Nov 2023Leave a comment

    There's no one left to gather more kernels for King Darius

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    A Successful Poem
    Mature Darkness Poems

    A Successful Poem

    Robert Hamill 9 Jun 20176 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    You get what you deserve Anthem of the successful

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    Wilding on a Hard Day’s Night
    Patapsco Days

    Wilding on a Hard Day’s Night

    Robert Hamill 8 Mar 20176 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    He christened me "Bronco Almon," more interested in fighting than understanding. School's a bitch. Life's a bitch this year.

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    Too Old to Learn
    Tales of Cubicle and Home

    Too Old to Learn

    Robert Hamill 8 Feb 20176 Dec 20241 Comment

    I expected a grandma type at the guard's desk, but she surprised me.

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    Recently deceased hoisted by adults and societyTo cumulus heaven, adding Family myths and hard-earned lessonsTo guide our daily lives. Good and evil tally Yet change…

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    How Do We Think

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    We explore how biological needs give rise to emotion, emotion forms associative patterns, and language both reflects and reshapes our outlook. Discover how the mind weighs emotion against logic in shaping behavior.
    Each step rests on the brain’s All-or-Nothing firing, where near matches are treated as exact— and abstraction gives rise to emergent insight.

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    Updated Jun 25, 2025 President Trump’s recent decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities—without congressional authorization or approval—has once again stirred the unresolved tension at the…

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      The Lane Between Wall Street and Main Street

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      Morality. Absolute or Relative

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      Electricity’s Dark Side: Lessons from the Past

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    Tabulators separate ballots into piles for each presidential candidate during a recount in Dane County (Wis.) on December 1, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Getty)