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Bacon Kielbasa Bake

Posted in cooking, entertainment, sports on September 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

A coworker and friend of mine, L, went to Syracuse University, home of the Orangemen, who opened their football season by hosting the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers. As our alma maters were meeting on the gridiron, we decided to watch together, and I decided to cook a breakfast dish I haven’t made for decades.
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A Strangely Jolly Commute this Morning

Posted in commute, culture, entertainment, humor, life, travel on August 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I did the casual carpool this morning. For those outside the SF Bay Area, the casual carpool is a way to reduce congestion during rush hour. I think it’s primarily in the East Bay (across San Francisco Bay from the City), rather than down the peninsula or in Marin county, but they may have it [...]

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A different pace

Posted in animals, books, dogs, e-scrapbook, entertainment, photography, top of the world, travel, walking on June 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »

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Battle of the High School Marching Bands

Posted in entertainment, music, photography, walking on May 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »

We live on a very wide street; counting the parking lanes, it’s seven lanes wide. It’s so wide that, each May, it’s used for a high school marching band competition.

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Time travel and the new Star Trek movie

Posted in entertainment, fiction, movies, rants, technology on May 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Mrs. Ombud enjoyed the new Star Trek movie, and I’m glad I saw it.

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The Phone Call with StubHub

Posted in baseball, entertainment, life, rants, sports, technology, travel on May 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »

 I spoke to Ms. Norberg, of StubHub.

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Another Useless Talent Exhibited

Posted in art, culture, entertainment, humor, technology on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My assistant brewer, Dave, is good at incredulity, among other things. He’s smart, a fount of the kind of quasi-useful knowledge copyeditors excel at (e.g., they are vocal cords, not chords; the word is actually supersede, not supercede, although some style manuals now accept the typo as a new “variant”), he knows a lot about movies, [...]

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Disney Does the Zoo

Posted in animals, culture, e-scrapbook, entertainment, nature, pets, photography, politics, thoughts, travel on March 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I have a lot of ambivalence about animals in cages or pens. It’s born of childhood visits to Como Park Zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota, and seeing the pacing cats behind bars in small cages. Fortunately, those cages are long gone now, and zoological parks have generally been upgraded and are more “humane” (ahem). Someone [...]

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Glimpses of the Magic Kingdom

Posted in TV, art, culture, e-scrapbook, entertainment, photography, television on March 21, 2009 | 8 Comments »

If you remember when the Wonderful World of Disney was on ABC on Sunday nights, then you also remember their wonderful world of “color! color! color!” and this first picture is for you:

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Some Reflections on Disney

Posted in culture, e-scrapbook, entertainment, humor, rants on March 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »

 
Disney seems to be an irony free zone. There is an immediacy to the experience here, a lack of reflection, doubtless derived from the novelty of childhood, the newness of sensations.

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