This is a wooden block with a slit cut in it. I don’t mean to insult your intelligence, I simply want to be sure that you understand what we are dealing with here. I’ve got a large bag filled with around 150 of these little things, leftovers from a silent auction some years back (they [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Because People Want To Know…
February 24th, 2009
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I happened upon an ABCNews story about Twitter that featured such luminaries as George Stephanopoulos and MC Hammer. I’ve got no idea how to post the damn thing in here, so I’ll just link out to it: John Berman catches up with MC Hammer about Twitter. John Berman (@abcdude) gave a pretty good rundown of [...]
Obsolescence
February 12th, 2009
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So my boss came to me, very distressed, with a browser that had somehow started up minus all of its bookmarks and saved passwords. This was bad news. My boss asked me where they might be, so I sat down to take a look. I was staring into the gaping maw of Netscape; and not [...]
Kyrgyzstan and the United States
February 3rd, 2009
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The BBC reports today that Kyrgyzstan will be shuttering the United States air base outside the capital city of Bishkek. This is pretty big news any direction that you cut it, but given our new “focus” on fixing things in Afghanistan, the closing of the Manas base is really, really, really important. You can check [...]
The Pork Protest
February 3rd, 2009
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It’s official – I’ve decided to protest pork in the upcoming stimulus bill. CNN has a nice list (compiled by House GOP folk) of some of the sillier bits: • $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said [...]
Quick Responses and Warm Bodies
February 2nd, 2009
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I’m helping to organize some malaria awareness events on campus this quarter and the next, and I had the bright idea to find a real anti-malarial anti-mosquito bednet. Not having any idea where I might find such a thing, I contacted my point-person at the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, who promptly beeped someone at Malaria [...]
Ephesus
February 1st, 2009
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Ephesus – Originally uploaded by timbrauhn For as long as I can remember, I’ve been inspired by old things. It seemed like, as a little kid, I was always imagining myself as some knight of the realm or old pioneer, striding across the valleys of the world to pitch a tent in some far off [...]
