Friday was the kind of day when a demanding week has caught up to you. Too little sleep, too much work, too early when the alarm clock sings its shrill pre-dawn tattoo. My run was like pushing through — and breathing in — pea soup, the humidity shimmering in the air.
Friday was the kind [...]
Some guy in Germany put an automatic camera on his outside cat’s collar, so he could see what it does all day.
Sometimes I have some challenging ideas, or crazy like some other people would say. This time I thought about our cat who is the whole day out, returning sometimes hungry sometimes not, sometimes with [...]
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Gym, etc. blah blah blah. At work, at precisely 12:07 p.m., I heard the sound of one car rear-ending another just below my window. Apparently one good citizen, headed north on Calvert, threw on the brakes a little too quickly in the process of giving way to a westbound ambulance. And the driver of the [...]
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Good eavesdropping at the gym: One of the most regular regulars, a compact thirty-something woman who is always to be seen huffing away on either a gerbil stepper or a treadmill, for what usually seems to be a good hour at a time, was talking to another regular, the slight, white-haired man who is always [...]
This year is the 45th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring, a book by Rachel Carson credited with starting the modern environmental movement. On the always-interesting Kottke.org this morning, there is a link to an article about one of the efforts to discredit this book, an article that is really worth a read for [...]
[Updated June 6, 2007: I added a footnote.]
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Up on schedule at 5:10, but I hadn’t been able to fall asleep until one a.m. or so. I guess there just won’t be any more sleeping. Amazing how you can just bully yourself into feeling awake. Actually, I guess it’s really true, what they say about exercise [...]
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I guess it’s possible to have too much faith in this modern age. For example, I keep expecting YouTube to be better than it is. I’m not really interested in watching funny “mashups” or, um, someone’s video diary… Well, never mind that, but what I’m looking for is a complete cataloguing of every minute of [...]
A. called briefly on Saturday to report a proud accomplishment. Remember the egg-probing process I described here? One reason that this is such a delicate process is because birds are notoriously picky about their eggs. Though the old legend about human smell being enough to cause birds to reject eggs/chicks (you know, the reason your [...]
Having stayed up much too late finishing Miami Vice on Saturday night, I had hoped to sleep in on Sunday, but I was awakened by a phone call at around seven a.m. I’m not usually in the habit of taking off-hours calls or any calls at all, for the most part, but with A. off [...]
Does anyone out there ever have occasion to look at how writers/photographers/other creative types present themselves online? I’d like to set up a snazzy portfolio site (for writing) that can make use of actual images of magazine pages, etc. Any recommendations?