While I was rocking Stinkbug Manor with my neighbor’s 40 year-old Sunbeam-brand electric snow wheezer, much, much happier people were having a snowball fight in Times Square.
This is the sort of thing that replenishes my faith in humanity.
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Giant snowball fight in Times Square
December 20th, 2009
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Puppies of Jenkintown: Bella, Greta and Karch
October 23rd, 2009
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We had seen them around town often — I mean, how do you miss three jacketed miniature greyhounds? — so it was nice to finally capture them, or parts of them, to be precise, on camera. (Feel free to correct me on the breed, they’re probably Toy Bavarian Fleethunds or Giant Italian Racing Chihuahuas or [...]
Puppies of the Outer Banks
October 14th, 2009
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It is hard to believe that it has been over a month since our vacation to Duck, NC on the Outer Banks. I’m more of Jersey Shore guy, but the Outer Banks is a nice change of pace. It is quieter, that’s for sure, especially after Labor Day. Still, with basically one main road in [...]
Puppies of Jenkintown, Part VII: Nice Walk Edition
August 7th, 2009
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Before I get to last night’s walk, here’s a shot of Sir Toby Belch, which Julia caught one night last week when her owner happened to stop in front of our house to chat with a friend of his.
His owner seemed a little taken aback by the sudden onslaught of a four year-old paparazzo, [...]
Beware the Spinal Trap
July 29th, 2009
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I’m following the herd, but: Support Simon Singh.
On 29th July a number of magazines and websites are going to be publishing Simon Singh’s Guardian article on chiropractic from April 2008, with the part the BCA sued him for removed.
They are reprinting it, following the lead of Wilson da Silva at COSMOS magazine, because they think [...]
Testing yet another blogging app
July 16th, 2009
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The beauty of my Dell netbook (bought it refurbished, a steal at $ 179) is that I don’t mind blowing it up on occasion, at least after I made a USB boot disk for my new Linux OS of choice (9.04 netbook remix), which is much better than Dell-ed up version of Linux that came [...]
Knives out for the NASA budget
June 9th, 2009
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With the transition from the shuttle to the allegedly shaky Constellation program, manned-flight at NASA is particularly vulnerable right now. So, it should disturb you to hear folks are looking at NASA’s comparatively small budget as a place to trim some deficit fat.
The Puppies of Jenkintown, part III
June 3rd, 2009
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Through a combination of illness (Julia’s, better now, thanks) and forgetfulness (you need the camera to take pictures) we missed a week or two in our quest to document the puppies of Jenkintown. Last night we made it out with a healthy kid and camera (although a sick dad), and harvested a bumper crop of [...]
Why I don’t go into the water Britain …Reason #1,767
June 2nd, 2009
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The Telegraph reports finding a 600ft jellyfish crop circle found in an Oxfordshire field.
Kill it!!! Oh, wait…
At the end of the article, the writer oddly refers to an entirely different crop circle from last year, and reuses the quotes from a retired astrophysicist on how THAT crop circle encodes pi.
I had to re-read [...]
Test with a new blogging tool
April 21st, 2009
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Hey, I really like this article over on Astroengine, so let’s make it part of the test.
Why is the term “failed star” synonymous with brown dwarfs? On the one hand, brown dwarfs lack the mass to sustain nuclear fusion in their cores. On the other hand, who said brown dwarfs were trying to be [...]
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