Category: play
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dinah
To give you an idea what’s been going on along the Lost Continent Railway, here’s an overhead shot of the layout. Compare with April 4, 2011. In my spare time this weekend, between washing clothes and tending to a plumbing emergency, I laid twenty-four feet of track; made templates to build four of the switches… Read.
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jack
This made me smile: When he’s not jazzing up the Mario Brothers theme, or recording tunes as Pomplamoose with Nataly Dawn, Jack Conte writes a lot of his own music, an eclectic mix of jazz, pop and I don’t know what else. Very hard to describe, but a lot of fun to listen to. And… Read.
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ooblek
If you like to cook, you probably know that you can thicken soup with corn starch. I don’t like to cook, but I’ve seen lots of people make gravy that way, and yet somehow I’ve been completely unaware that they were creating a non-Newtonian fluid, just like this one: Some science teachers call it “ooblek”… Read.
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pops
I find myself identifying with this guy, but have only the dimmest notion why that might be: Read.
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choo-choo
I bought a diesel engine choo-choo at the train show last weekend and it’s taken me until tonight to finally put it on the track and run it back and forth. With that lack of commitment I have to ask myself: Do I really deserve this? But after listening to that engine purr and watching… Read.
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broken
I’ve just come home from my annual trip to the Madison model train show, where I was doing a pretty good job of sticking to my promise to myself not to spend a lot of dough in spite of all the tempting toys. In a room as big as two football fields, I found a… Read.
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classic
“No gin tonight son … unless it’s Hendrick’s!” On the advice of a good friend, we splurged on a bottle of Hendrick’s so we could enjoy classic cocktail night with a classic gin. The before-dinner gimlet was delicious, and the after-dinner perfect martini was, well, perfect. Best thirty dollars we ever spent. Read.
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sushi
It was a dark and stormy night, filled with snow and sleet driven by a lashing wind. Why would any sane person want to spend any amount of time walking the streets of Madison tonight? Well, because there was all-you-can-eat sushi at Restaurant Muramoto tonight. We thought about going to Restaurant Muramoto tomorrow night, in… Read.
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chimp
Trunk Monkey is awesome. Read.
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santorum
“I had some porn, and I swore. This weird witch gagged me. My old burrito princess had a teepee, and we’d go vomit in two different food stair wells in the Americas. In between then, we’d surf!” “And this orange was just sitting there for me — for me to take it out and lunch… Read.
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