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| April 11, 2013 |
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I've always wondered about this, if a very strong person
might shake an egg vigorously enough to scramble it in-the-shell.
Seems it's
easy, with a sleeve and the right technique.
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| March 17, 2013 |
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Using now my fifth computer, a Thinkpad T60 replacing the
almost-identical T41 which, when it chooses to boot up, still
works fine, but only for a few minutes. Really good to have
a new (well, newly refurbished) system running the ol' reliable
XP with very similar look and feel of the early days on the Win95
Monorail.
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| Janaury 9, 2013 |
RIP Huell
Howser, lovable doofus, California voice. All his shows are
archived by Chapman University so, finally, watching his
Ridge
Route tour which I could never find at the library. You can
read my own notes of driving that
road back
in the archives, scroll down to
October 25 2004. Photo here was somewhere along the way.
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| December 31, 2012 |
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So much for 2012 -- Happy New Year!
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| November 18, 2012 |
-
Escaping
the Rat Race with the "Cultured Youth" of China, a story that was reprinted in The Atlantic.
Reaction to this article is calling these kids 'hipsters'... contrast
with the formerly-urban Rusticated Youth of the Cultural Revolution's
Down
to the Countryside Movement.
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| November 1, 2012 |
OAHU JACK
Hawaiian papaya carved and illuminated for the season
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| September 29, 2012 |
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In Smithsonian cyberspace you can find a blog by Matt Novak called
Paleofuture,
"a history of the future that never was." Recently, an article about
Googie
architecture and now, on the occasion of their 50th anniversary,
he's reviewing every episode of The
Jetsons (TOS). Meanwhile, Smithsonian magazine has changed
slightly, for the worse, beginning several months ago -- hard to describe
what's different. Got to talking about this with the clerk in the shop
of their Postal Museum and she said it's 'cause it got a new editor.
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| August 28, 2012 |
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Summer ending so soon? Hope you got to go somewhere, have a
vacation. Myself, back to DC, with Charlottesville, but no beach.
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| August 16, 2012 |
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The end of August, when everything slows down.
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| June 15, 2012 |
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Good grief, Summer already? |
| May 4, 2012 |
They're finding their way to my WET pages since Salon reprinted Imprint's
WET, Revisited.
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| February 26, 2012 |
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The cherry trees are flowering in Silicon Valley, and it's not even
March! And this is the dryest Californian winter I've ever experienced.
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| January 22, 2012 |
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O, Happy Day -- the annoying neighbors next door just moved out!
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| December 13, 2011 |
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A couple new additions:
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