The pizza crust is a standard bread-machine pizza crust, put in a greased pizza pan. Cover with cheese, I used all cheddar, but next time I'd cut it with mozzerella. The sauce is 3 onions, caramelized, then strain 3 cups of applesauce to get some of the extra water out, stir into the onions with a cup of raisins, and some cinnamon and cloves. It was good, but next time, less cinnamon, some cubed granny smiths, maybe some lemon juice, and I should have let it bake longer, or used a pizza stone, or something.. I left in in for 20 minutes, but the crust was still a bit sad. I think the idea is sound, though. _
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05:07:30 PM, Monday 19 November 2007

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Seen while stacked up over JFK. The ocean, it is large. A container is 40' long, so that ship is at least 680', fairly small, as such things go. Has about 300 containers on deck. The largest container ships can hold over 5,000 containers, apparently. _
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06:40:29 PM, Saturday 17 November 2007

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The onion/apple pizza is about to go in the oven. _
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06:32:57 PM, Saturday 17 November 2007

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I found my keys! I had been missing them for 11 days. They were in the inbox, under piles and piles of paper. _
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05:25:29 PM, Saturday 17 November 2007

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Man, by Michael Dennis, at the Decordova sculpture park. _
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10:42:42 AM, Saturday 17 November 2007

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The Telegraph Building and Big Pink in Portland. _
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10:25:03 AM, Saturday 17 November 2007

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Walking around Portland at dawn, after flying from the east coast.. People there wait for walk signals. At dawn, they wait. _
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10:11:48 PM, Friday 16 November 2007

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My department has decided to give it's Christmas budget to charity, which is wonderful. But it looks like they will be giving it to the Make-A-Wish-Foundation, rather than, say, putting it towards the victims of the cyclone in Bangladesh. This is just one example of something I find utterly depressing about our society and it's priorities. Not that I'm going to give people reciepts from donations instead of presents myself, you understand. It's just... I don't know. I'm not sure it's even a rational objection, and not just a manifestation of grinchiness. Maybe it's this: Wanting to make a child happy is very natural, and admirable. But charities are practically the same thing as governments, in my mind. They're not individual action, they're society itself, and something that would be fine for a person to do seems a kind of selfish emotional indulgence when it's channeled through an organization. Dying children are terribly depressing, but they're not nearly such a pressing problem, and even if they were, trips to Disneyland don't solve anything. _
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04:16:15 PM, Friday 16 November 2007

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The Legislature at its last session granted a charter authorizing the organization of the "American Acclimation Society," having for its object the introduction and acclimation of foreign birds, animals, vegetables, &c., having in many cases special regard to their value as antidotes to the ravages of insects, diseases in grain, &c. A few days ago a number of gentlemen, who have long taken a deep interest in the subject, and were instrumental in procuring the charter, assembled at the residence of EUGENE SCHIEFFELIN. Esq.

-New York Times, June 13, 1871. Scheiffelin is the man who released starlings into Central Park in 1890, these organizations introduced house sparrows across the country. What follows is unfounded speculation, but... Dodo bones had only just been found a few years earlier. That introducing another new species could cause catastrophe in a well developed ecosystem wouldn't have been obvious, but they couldn't have been oblivious to exinction. Would they have thought evolution is progress, competition is good, and not worried about it? Would it have occured to them at all? Maybe they thought they would be encouraging biodiversity, if they thought in those terms at all. God, I love the internet sometimes. _
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01:27:04 PM, Friday 16 November 2007

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I have made shephard's pie! This is the first step back on the road to an orderly life. _
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06:35:06 PM, Thursday 15 November 2007

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Japanese emperor guilt-ridden over sunnies. I'm trying to imagine a horror-filled nature documentary about invasive sunnies, and struggling. _
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04:38:34 PM, Thursday 15 November 2007

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I just need to somehow get it through my head that working makes me happier than not working. And eating well makes me happier than eating badly. _
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03:37:12 PM, Thursday 15 November 2007

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