All kidding aside, this story from October, 2003 makes my blood boil: RESOURCE DAMAGE AT YELLOWSTONE’S LONE STAR GEYSER 2 geniuses in a pickup truck went off-roading in Yellowstone and did a fair amount of damage near a geyser, then obligingly told the rangers everything they needed in order to bust them. The Salt Lake Trib had more information after the incident on these two geniuses and their adventure in the wilderness – with excellent snark provided by the reporter, who implied the pair were in need of an IQ test, rather than a sobriety test. I love the part…
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Just in case my mom is ever plunked down in front of a computer and shown my “blog” and all the wacky detritus of my life that washes up in it, here’s a category just for her and the few family members that might stop by. And here’s my dad – fresh out of high school, with an unlikely thatch of hair that at the time was bright, bright red: I retouched this a bit because my aunt had all the old photos in their beautiful old hand-cut and embossed mattes, and she wrote the names of all the people…
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Via a link to a link to a link (beginning at In the Shadow of Mt Hollywood and contuing via this article in The Atlantic on “The Organization Kid,” I eventually got to this essay from 1991: The Other Crisis in American Education – 91.11 They were interesting articles, and I was pondering my own educational experiences (which could best be described as “unmotivated boredom”) while reading them. I had been looking for a descriptive term for the kinds of over-scheduled kids that have become legion in middle-class American life; as a childfree adult I had looked on aghast at…
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Yes, it’s that time again, pioneers – yes, today we mine the search phrase log for some more Blogon Poetry. And this month, in honor of Valentine’s Day, it’s all about the luuuuuuuuuuuurve. can you spell viagra? sexy toenails and pictures 2004. piercings albert padlock, master slave restaurant plug wet… peekaboo bug holly hack, samuel pepys naughty bits. fried chocolate new york alton brown orlando bloom. real redheads with green eyes, redheads with braids; avoiding negative people — aol bad stuff. Okay, that probably caused only a few people to bleed from their eyes and ears, now let’s have some…
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I was scanning various websites the other day and ran across something that just struck me funny from a copyright lawyer that had done some work for Penthouse magazine and its’ sister publications: As an attorney for the Penthouse magazine empire in the mid 1990s, I launched a war against cyberspace dwellers who, without authorization, used photographic images of the Penthouse Pets and models on their web pages. There were literally thousands of web sites posting Penthouse-copyrighted images scanned from Penthouse magazine and its numerous sister publications. Finding Penthouse-owned pictures required some hands-on investigative work. Uh – okay, Counselor, thanks…
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See, this quiz just laid out for me why I don’t watch horror movies, but at least I pass the test! Yay, me. 😉 (also found at ***Dave’s) Would you survive a horror movie? Find out @ She’s Crafty
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A look at my logs recently led me down a few investigative Web rambles last night and today – the kind where you start of at Google, click a few links, go back, click a few more links farther down and so on. Interesing and informative links found thus far – attention, my hubby, might have a little more tinkering around for you to do: Random and Irrelevant IMHO, the above site was actually specific and relevant. 😉 Helpfully provided by Random and Irrelevant: robots.txt not honored? And I think I need to cross-reference robots.txt abusers/ignorers against a few such…
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Here’s what was under today’s fractalicious Google nameplate: http://www.google.com/images?q=gaston+julia I always enjoy the fun Google has with commemorating holidays and events with its nameplate graphics. I wonder who the designers are? A Musical Group I’d Really Like To Hear: Reptile Palace Orchestra This group contains one of the only Balkan rock cellists in the world – possibly THE only Balkan rock cellists: Seth Blair The band’s bio tries to explain it all, but I think I’ll have to buy a CD on faith. Seth Blair used to appear every year at Seattle’s Folk Life Festival, and my friends and I…
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There’s a new biography of Douglas Adams out that I’ll have to buy later: Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, by M.J. Simpson> I happened to hear an interview with M.J. Simpson on this morning’s Sunday Edition on :NPR; I’m so glad I heard it. Somewhere behind me in one of the ‘move to Chicago from Seattle’ boxes that never got unpacked, I’ve got the BBC Radiophonic Workshop cassette version of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” I listened to every episode as it was broadcast on my college :NPR station, I bought all the books, I bought the fourth and…
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AP Wire | 01/31/2004 | Strangers’ lives intersected Feb. 1 and are forever altered Ahhh, God. Anniversary tomorrow. Ahhh, dammit.