Mrs Norman Maine belts a long, funny one out of the park as guest bloggist at Rance’s place. Oh, my God. Still laughing at the concept of “Thinga Thong” – programmable musical underwear. BWAAhahahaha… I wonder when I’ll get my turn at bat? If I do, it’ll be right into the shortstop’s glove with two outs and 3 commenters on. And that’ll be the end of the inning. Game over. 😉
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A major earthquake in Alaska in 2002 set off lots of smaller quakes in the Yellowstone National Park more than 2,000 miles away, say scientists. Within hours geysers in the park changed their eruption patterns, according to the journal Geology. Very glad to run across this article. I’d heard about the changes that happened to the geysers, it’s interesting that they connected it with such a distant earthquake event. And of course, it reminds me of that ski trip from hell in Yellowstone. I think winter after next I’ll be ready for a return to the Snow Lodge.
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Yahoo! News – Utah Fitness Charity Files for BankruptcySALT LAKE CITY – A charity accused of ripping off schools around the country on fitness equipment filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday. Uh, huh. Funny how often the big-bucks scams that seem so squeaky clean and healthy because they’re based in Utah turn out to be elaborate financial scams, pyramid schemes, or plain old swindles. The principals will now commence to bleating their innocence and good intentions.
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Rance had a new guest bloggist up – good choice, since it was a real stinger. Really blows the hair back with a big “whoof!!” sound. I’m still on deck with Mrs. Norman Maine. Maybe we should learn to play 2-handed gin rummy online while we’re waiting. The suspense is killing me. There’s a new and even more wordy “About” section under the ampersands. Thanks again to Elise of “Learning Moveable Type” for the how-to. I still have to bang some rocks together a little more to get certain macros (yes, yes, okay the goddamn Amazon macro) working there. All…
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It was “gomi” (garbage) day in Joi Ito’s community – a day when everyone gets together to clean up trash and unwanted junk that’s been illegally dumped. On my trip to Japan (this was in about 1993), I went hiking on Gomiyama – in other words, I found a trail that went up through the bamboo forests behind one of the shrines in Matsuyama on Shikoku.
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The mailbag is open at Velcrometer, where a reader mentions that “Dr. Jellyfinger” may have had a cousin, “Mr. Hamhands.” I’ve been reading your entries for a about a year now and I have to tell you how much joy my husband and I get from of your entries on Dr. Jellyfinger. You see, it seems that we live in a house owned by his cousin, Mr. Hamhands. Now that’s interesting, I think that Dr. Jellyfinger’s great-nephew-in-law might be the former owner of this house, The Rev. Izontha Prize Doolittle. Rev. Doolittle apparently spent so much time looking up to…
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Now that the weekend is over, the deluge clears off and the sun comes out… too late to do anything outside now, of course, and everything is soggy underfoot anyway. What fun we’ve had today – first I had a screaming shrieking hissy over my inablilty to get Front Page (insert sympathy shrieks here) to do what I wanted it to do for the Holy Moly web page. Then at the height of the fit (and the top of my range and volume) the power went out and all the various UPS‘s started beeping and chirping along with me. Which…
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At long last another entry has gone up for the September trip to Britain. It only needed some images and some tweaking but of course it had to lie around being a draft for more than a month. Well, it’s there now, and there’s really only one big entry left, which will cover the rest of our time hiking in Yorkshire, and the 2 nights we spent in London at the end of the trip. And then the thing will be done, aside from a few things that come after our return home.
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Blue Belt Your skills are adequate from managing day-to-day life as a MT-Do, but you still have much to learn. Take the MT-Do test I might have ranked higher if I had installed MT all by myself, or if I had actually made modifications to the program (what, I can’t even figure out how the macro thingy works unless I can see how someone else did it and adapt). But glee! I’m not a white belt. There’s consolation.