across the board

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a tiny portable chess set bought at beijing's touristy yashow market -- one of the souvenirs i look at from time to time to remind me that i was there.

i suffer great disconnect between the places i've lived... at times i suspect i've imagined them. i know it sounds funny, but sometimes i look down on my old neighborhoods on google earth to reassure myself that they really, truly exist.

if i go back to visit, even after decade's absence, it feels as if nothing's changed and it's as if i never left.

scientology ads

has anyone else noticed that there are ads for scientology everywhere?

it smells of desperation to me.

monkeys open bananas better than ray comfort

there goes the tab at the top theory.



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here's the great ray comfort - matt dillahunty debate:

unformation

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alternate title: what's black and white and unread all over?
i stopped buying newspapers years ago.

i think i probably wouldn't have noticed this arrangement if i hadn't seen flickrfanmk2007's picture yesterday.

multimoon

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i was fiddling around with my remote live view on the 40D again last night -- it was a full moon, after all, and i do have a tradition of photographing the full moon. i mounted my little white onto the 40D, set it on the tripod on the balcony and connected it to my computer with two USB extensions.

you can really see the moon move on the EOS utility magnification window... and i got this idea for something a little different.

the offspring suggested i make some moon candy:

why don't bees go to heaven?

(man created god)



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match game

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mr. deity and the magic

check out the book lucy's reading!

flickr slideshow-keh

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yesterday mr.g presented me with this LG M2794D monitor (which doubles as a TV) -- and i went from seeing my pictures on a 15something inch laptop screen to 27''!

my personal favorites flickr slideshow looks awesome.

the picture is not too clear -- i softened it up because the depth of field on the pixels was distracting...

susan sackett on PoI

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susan sackett, author of several books, including inside trek, and gene roddenberry's executive assistant for 17 years, chats with d.j. grothe on point of inquiry. she discusses what star trek is truly about -- it was a great podcast to listen to.

i also saw that the post's commentators complain about the latest star trek -- i've posted my review here.

not knowing

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i wanted a perfect ending.
now i've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
delicious ambiguity.
- gilda radner

satellite interview with richard dawkins

royal society of new zealand



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trekkie-in-training

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