Month: March 2010
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artistic
The public bathroom at the Willy Street Co-Op: I guess some guys need something to keep their hands busy while they’re standing there. I can’t draw, but I know a few snappy quotations I could dash off … not that I really want to pick up that chalk, even when there’s soap and plenty of… Read.
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geeking out
I’ve wasted an indefensibly huge amount of time surfing through these photos of PR photos from the original Star Trek television series, but then I’ve wasted an indefensibly huge amount of time watching every episode of the series at least half a dozen times, too. But don’t judge me. Space geekery is a disease. I’m… Read.
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geekiness pays off
“Got time for a question that doesn’t have anything to do with anything?” Tim asked me the other day. I just love questions that don’t have anything to do with anything, so I said, “Shoot!” “If you want to increase the amount of heat in a circuit, do you increase the voltage or the current.”… Read.
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so close
WE’RE SO CLOSE TO SPRING! About a week ago, when winter finally showed the first signs of letting up on us just a bit, My Darling B went out to her garden to paw through the snow cover, searching for sprouting garlic but, so sad, couldn’t find any. This week, it’s been even warmer, and… Read.
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sleeping arrangements
I woke at about four o’clock this morning and was at a complete loss to explain the reason for it. I hadn’t had a dream about a bear chasing and eating me, I didn’t have a cramp in my calf strong enough to bend steel, I hadn’t tried to swallow my tongue while snoring. With… Read.
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weekend wrap-up
Weekend Wrap-Up: Saturday Farmer’s Market: A delicious breakfast featuring a pesto Monte Cristo with bread pudding, mushy granola & cranberries, and apple quarters mixed up with some kind of sweet potato stuff. I loved everything except the sweet potato stuff. Saint Vinnie’s: brought home copies of Henry Hitchings’ Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of… Read.
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food for aliens
If one billion people on this planet drink a cup of coffee every day, and one billion people drink a cup of tea … it’s probably way more than that, but you get the idea … then where is all that coffee and tea coming from? How’s it even possible that people can grow that… Read.
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puzzling
It’s a first: We stopped by Star Liquor yesterday evening to see what was featured at the Friday afternoon beer tasting and somehow, don’t ask me how, we didn’t end up taking any home. Before this, we always ended up picking a six-pack from the brewer who was handing out free samples. They always offered… Read.
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grilling with lumber
Tonight’s dinner was not cooked on lumber. That means just what it says. I prepared and served a delicately broiled slab of salmon for guy night, and I did it without making a trip to the work shop to dig a rough-sawn cedar plank or a leftover length of select pine from the lumber pile.… Read.
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LeGuin
If you like to read fiction but you’ve never read science fiction because of the geek factor, or you’ve tried but you found it too technical or fantastic, you ought to give Ursula Le Guin’s work a try before you give up on the genre entirely. She doesn’t write just science fiction; she’s well-known for… Read.
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