Raisins, reliving past glories while being fried. It should be mentioned that they rewrinkle as they cool.
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11:46:55 AM,
Sunday 11 May 2003
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The Monastary of the Jumping Cats. It makes so much sense to me that many of the accomplishments and legends of Buddhist monks have their roots in profound boredom.
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10:17:59 PM,
Saturday 10 May 2003
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The second story on this page raises a concern about the validity of the cat-jumping data.
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07:02:26 PM,
Saturday 10 May 2003
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Why cats survive falls from skyscrapers. They reach terminal velocity after 5 stories. This makes me feel a tiny bit better about Atari standing on the balcony railing over a 4 story drop.
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06:54:34 PM,
Saturday 10 May 2003
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12:16:37 PM,
Saturday 10 May 2003
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I wonder if I'd have allergies in New Zealand. They should have an allergy test that tells you where you should live.
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08:29:37 PM,
Friday 9 May 2003
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Pigs are incapable of lurking.
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08:04:11 PM,
Friday 9 May 2003
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For the record: frying raisins is possible. They come out edible, and very strange. My descriptive powers fail me. I have since discovered that they appear in indian cooking.
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06:25:04 PM,
Friday 9 May 2003
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I can find no evidence of any musical groups called The Small Investors.
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05:00:48 PM,
Friday 9 May 2003
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Man discovers new Harry Potter novel in field. He then turned it over to the Sun. Two days later, the Sun participates in a sting operation, catching 3 kids who were trying to sell it to the Sun, claiming to have found it in ditch.
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04:47:49 PM,
Friday 9 May 2003
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A ruffed grouse pretending to be a tree. From Algonquin Park, May 2001.
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10:01:25 AM,
Friday 9 May 2003
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Fwhee!
You ascend to the status of Demigod.
Do you want your possessions identified? [ynq] (n)
Vanquished creatures:
Baalzebub
Orcus
Juiblex
The WIzard of Yendor (8 times)
Death
Pestilence (thrice)
Famine (4 times)
a high priest
4 mastodons
Medusa
Croesus
8 krakens
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4 balrogs
Thoth Amon
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5 jabberwocks
11 baluchitheria
10 Angels
Vlad the Impaler
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6 Nazguls
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119 killer bees
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18 newts
3122 creatures vanquished
--More--
Goodbye Alaric the Demigod...
You went to your reward with 4700102 points,
...
Alaric-Bar-Orc-Mal-Cha ascended to demigod-hood.
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01:54:25 AM,
Friday 9 May 2003
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This is a problem for me as well. My initial reaction to Rumsfield was awful, but I like his plans to reform the military. I was repulsed by all the retired generals using the slight delay in the war to scream bloody murder and demand larger budgets. Rumsfield produces a lot of awful quotes, but the reason he produces them is that he refuses to play the media game properly; he gets easily irritated by gotcha questions and will actually occasionally speak without testing it thoroughly first. Both are positive traits that we should select for in our politicians. He's probably my favorite Bushkin. Powell doesn't count. They only gave him a job because they couldn't afford not to; he's too popular to leave available to the opposition.
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10:15:57 PM,
Thursday 8 May 2003
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We went and uncovered the nearest letterbox, and lo and behold, there was a little rubbermaid box containing a book full of stamps, and a rubber stamp, buried behind a bench that I'd walked past innumerable times. It was a strange experience, it made me realize that I construct silos (a bit of businesspeak I quite like because it makes me think of ICBM's and North Dakota) in my life, that the internet only effects my physical existence through UPS. So I'm now working on a stamp. Here's my stencil, from a disappointingly blurry picture of mergansers taken from a kayak in Algonquin.
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09:05:36 PM,
Thursday 8 May 2003
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I know I'm a little slow, but I just realized that Slate's late lamented news quiz was by the Ethicist. Why is this interesting? It's just unnerving. I feel like he slunk off and came back in disguise. Also, the number of nationally read journalists I've communicated with has dropped back to two. In general, since I've started keeping track of journalists names I've discovered there are a lot less of them than I had imagined.
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08:35:04 PM,
Thursday 8 May 2003
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I suppose there are legitimate reasons they chose 'Shock & Awe', rather than a 'Short, Sharp Shock'. All militaries should probably steer clear of Gilbert & Sullivan references. But wouldn't it have been grand? The Guardian made an effort.
"To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!"
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07:57:36 PM,
Thursday 8 May 2003
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10:53:31 AM,
Thursday 8 May 2003
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07:52:05 PM, Wednesday 7 May 2003
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Thank you all for the kind words. My current plan is to try to post a picture a day, so as to give myself a reason to edit my archives, and to force myself to take more pictures.
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09:49:10 AM,
Wednesday 7 May 2003
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Since we're on the subject, a picture I took last year of the Deer Island light, with the sewage treatment plant in the background. Taken from the deck of the Provincetown Ferry at speed.
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09:24:19 AM,
Wednesday 7 May 2003
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Digiscoping. Taking pictures of birds using a spotting scope and a digital camera. Orders of magnitude cheaper than getting proper equipment. Still more than I can afford, though.
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07:28:47 PM,
Tuesday 6 May 2003
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Fun with surface tension. The top one is Verbena.
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07:11:03 PM,
Tuesday 6 May 2003
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800x600
1280x960 (original)
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07:03:47 PM,
Tuesday 6 May 2003
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07:01:36 PM,
Tuesday 6 May 2003
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07:00:36 PM,
Tuesday 6 May 2003
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06:59:41 PM,
Tuesday 6 May 2003
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Student accused of violating network security by playing Nethack. I love real-life usenet dramas.
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02:23:30 PM,
Tuesday 6 May 2003
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I just found my 2x telephoto lens and magnifying lenses, which I had nearly given up on and was considering replacing. This makes me happy. They were in the cable box; the large plastic box that doubles as a plant stand and contains extension cords, power adapters, a Super Nintendo and a TurboGrafx, coaxial cables of questionable worth, and the various computer and audio cables of various types which I've collected over the years. I must have put them in there when we moved. Now I can instead debate whether to spend the money for a wide-angle lens and an 8x telephoto. Of course, if I do that then I'm committed to getting a camera with 37mm threads if I ever upgrade. Is 37mm standard?
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01:08:38 PM,
Tuesday 6 May 2003
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Heather. No, I lie. Heath.
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09:27:49 PM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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Oh good. I haven't been blogging for a year yet. Live isn't rushing past me quite as quickly as I thought it might be.
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09:15:19 PM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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There are the same number of ringwraiths as democratic presidential candidates.
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07:41:45 PM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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The pictures below are of the more successful seedlings, Sweet Alyssum top, Violet left, Thyme right. These constitute my main accomplishment over the last few months.
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11:04:15 AM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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10:09:44 AM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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10:07:51 AM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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We tried to go to a lecture Thomas Friedman was giving on campus, but it was full, apart from seats in a room where they were simulcasting; projecting the lecture on a screen. The thing that drove me nuts was that the camera they were using was at the back of the auditorium, as though to make sure that the riff-raff who drifted in only 10 minutes early wouldn't get better seats. When we saw that his talk came after the granting of several awards, we gave up and shuffled home.
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05:42:52 PM,
Saturday 3 May 2003
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With great power comes great responsibility. Now I have to decide what I want to link to on my sidebar, rather than living contentedly in a world where such things were unchangable.
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05:39:00 PM,
Saturday 3 May 2003
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