Tim's Bloglet - Tuesday 8 July 2003

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07:32:28 PM, Tuesday 8 July 2003

Either an insect in our Dwarf Morning Glory or a cartoon explosion. _
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07:20:21 PM, Tuesday 8 July 2003

Our listing in the phone book. They wanted to charge for an unlisted number, but they let you choose how your name was displayed for free. No one has yet had the gumption to ask for Mr. or Mrs. Unlisted. _
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07:02:10 PM, Tuesday 8 July 2003

Our first harvest of peas is ready. Fresh raw peas are a wonderful thing. They can also be used to demonstrate that a hex grid is the natural formation for spheres. _
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11:40:05 AM, Friday 4 July 2003

I'm starting to think I might run into some traffic on the way back from New Hampshire tomorrow. Why can't people just be happy where they are? _
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05:20:47 PM, Wednesday 2 July 2003

For any other windows users out there: shift-F10 right-clicks on the selected item for you. I think this is the last piece I need to become mouse-free in my routine tasks. Which is good, because this little pointing knob (am I the only person in the world who likes these?) is starting to give me blisters. _
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12:48:25 PM, Monday 30 June 2003

I just broke down and ordered a wireless phone. With a headset, even. _
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04:26:41 PM, Sunday 29 June 2003

We have a pot, which was supposed to have grass in, but it didn't grow, so we've just been watering it without weeding. I believe this is an oak tree. _
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11:25:40 AM, Saturday 28 June 2003

After driving off a bluejay. You'd think lurking behind some potted heath would be ineffective, but he's had a good jump at some finches once or twice. Of course, I suspect them of tormenting him. _
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11:15:21 AM, Saturday 28 June 2003

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10:58:57 AM, Saturday 28 June 2003

National Do Not Call list. _
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07:08:35 PM, Friday 27 June 2003

I saw a car painted plain old brown, like the side of a shed. Why don't people paint other things with high-gloss finishes? I'd like a shiny forest green wall. _
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04:18:28 PM, Thursday 26 June 2003

That was just... neat. I decided on a whim to take I-93 through, or rather under, Boston today, just to see it. It's really something. I was expecting it to be a similar experience to the tunnels in Pennsylvania, but it was entirely different. For one thing, in the mountains you just drive around a bend and suddenly there is a tunnel. This, you seem like your driving directly downtown, with great views, and suddenly you go down a hill and the landscape doesn't. The tunnel itself is fairly curvy, and you can't see the traffic going the other way. The road signs are on the ceiling, which is unnerving, I had to try to concentrate on the lines, and not watch the ceiling. Well lit, with a bright orange light, presumably for night-time glare reasons. Underground exits, which make it feel like a subway tunnel. Then you come up out of the ground and immediately over this wierd, elegant bridge, which offers a great view of the old decrepit ugly bridge being dismantled. It is unlike any stretch of highway I have met before. _
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04:20:43 PM, Tuesday 24 June 2003

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09:17:22 PM, Sunday 22 June 2003

More with the wet flowers. _
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09:10:21 PM, Sunday 22 June 2003

Cats have long tongues. _
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03:52:01 PM, Sunday 22 June 2003

Rain in a chair. Had the first thunderstorm of the summer last night. _
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03:30:47 PM, Sunday 22 June 2003

Finches. I have a kind of blind set-up, where I can take pictures of the feeder without frightening the beasts, but unfortunately the lighting is awful, they're always backlit. _
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03:06:14 PM, Sunday 22 June 2003

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11:39:03 AM, Sunday 22 June 2003

My Pot Marigolds have opened. _
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11:38:43 AM, Sunday 22 June 2003

Last wildflower from last weekend. I should get a wildflower book, simply so I can label them properly. _
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04:15:58 PM, Saturday 21 June 2003

An untampered version, with a 2:3 ratio. _
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05:12:09 PM, Friday 20 June 2003

Photoshop raises a whole new set of ethical dilemmas. I have done far too much to this photo; I got carried away. Also, I can't find ways to make it easily support my superstitious belief in small number ratios. However, bits of the interface are brilliant, and make me happy. So do fully functional 30 day free trials. _
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05:07:40 PM, Friday 20 June 2003

Random wildflowers, against the Block Island Light. _
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02:23:51 PM, Friday 20 June 2003

The same crab, transplanted temporarily. _
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01:44:07 PM, Wednesday 18 June 2003

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11:31:20 AM, Wednesday 18 June 2003

This herring gull came and squawked at me a few times, and when I didn't respond properly, simply sat there with its beak ajar and its curiously yellow tongue sticking out. I think I was being threatened, since I was near some nesting birds, but I can't be sure. It's entirely possible that it was begging, possibly regressing to its chickhood. _
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09:30:09 PM, Tuesday 17 June 2003

You know, I think I could really get into image-processing algorithms. _
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09:02:28 PM, Monday 16 June 2003

Two pea tendrils meeting in mid-air. _
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09:01:10 PM, Monday 16 June 2003

Those are snails covering the rocks. _
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08:36:40 PM, Monday 16 June 2003

A black-backed gull at the northern end of Block Island. Here it was trying to eat a large crab, and not doing very well. These were out of focus yet very expressive, so I played around with them a bit. (It should be mentioned that all the pictures I take are tidied up with MGI PhotoSuite, which came with the camera but works well enough.) _
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08:36:13 PM, Monday 16 June 2003

I'm trying to download the trial version of Adobe Photoshop Elements, but the ID Ihateacrobat is not available. _
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07:34:29 PM, Monday 16 June 2003

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