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Conservatory of Flowers and the Bay Area Garden Railway
02/09/2010 - 15:48
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The Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park has a special exhibit right now set up by the Bay Area Garden Railways society. It’s a model train layout of famous San Francisco landmarks, and all of the buildings are made out of recycled materials, like computer floppy disks, old milk crates, bottles, circuit boards, cereal [...]
Wretched Writing
01/12/2010 - 09:32
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How wretched you are, Writing!
Page upon page will never endure,
But ten lines can last forever.
A verse on a scrap can wrench hearts and minds
While gold trimmed volumes might warp only shelves.
A poor sculptor’s work is forever a thing
An ugly tchotchke on a loved one’s mantle.
But a writer’s failure has no grip on the world.
Where can [...]
Love The Nook, But It Needs…
01/01/2010 - 10:30
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I got a Barnes and Noble Nook for Christmas.
I’m not sure I need to review it more in-depth than, “I love it.”
I did just have some ideas for how it could be better, and I wanted to put them down on here.
Nook Needs:
Automated Shelfari integration.
Instead of using an on-screen d-pad on the touchscreen to move [...]
My Dad’s Christmas Story
12/24/2009 - 22:13
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One Christmas morning, my father attempted to describe Santa as Solid Snake.
This is that story.
“Dad, does Santa really go house to house delivering toys?”
“He does indeed; why just last night this Christmas Eve, I heard him.”
“What? No!”
“Yeah, I was sitting here watching TV after you’d gone to bed, and I thought I heard jingling coming [...]
Genius
12/21/2009 - 15:46
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This morning, I woke up terrified.
I had had a bad dream, one of those vivid ones that so impresses itself upon your mind that they are impossible to forget. Usually, for me, they have to do with some sort of tragedy that affects and injures me directly; I become paralyzed, people in my family are [...]
Memory
12/16/2009 - 12:35
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Ever have one of those days where you just remember? Where you’re just sitting quietly and suddenly a great memory just pops into your head? That happened to me today.
I remembered my Mom and I taking a road trip to LA together to help her friend move. We spent a long weekend together, just the [...]
THE GREAT MAGICIANS OF THE 20th CENTURY!
12/11/2009 - 11:03
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In addition to his popular appearances as the Daily Show’s resident expert and his long-running stint playing the REVILED and DISGUSTING PC in the adverts for those GLORIOUS and MAGNIFICENT Apple computers, John Hodgman (referred to henceforth by his stage name, “The Master of Hidden Knowledge, Hodgman”) has also received some notoriety for being America’s [...]
Seattle’s Cold Snap
12/10/2009 - 09:05
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We’ve had a little bit of a cold snap here in Seattle over the past week. I was lucky to have decided to bring my camera with me to work on one of the coldest days. I was able to get these great pictures before I started work. My favorite of these three is the [...]
Ray Bradbury Would Be Proud
12/09/2009 - 18:29
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Ray Bradbury might hate the Internet because it distracts people from libraries, but I’m sure that even he would be hard pressed to find anything but comedic value in some of the gems that the ladies over at Awful Library Books find. Look at some of these things.
Probots. Sounds like a proctology tool.
I imagine that [...]
The3six5 Project
12/08/2009 - 22:56
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My favorite blog, Mental_Floss, posted today about an interesting web-project proposed and organized by Constructive Grumpiness called The3six5 Project. Every day in the year 2010, a different writer will post a short journal entry documenting something interesting that happened to them on their day.
Needless to say, I’m enthralled. I can’t wait to see what sorts [...]
