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Gone to the Birds

Posted in Beatles, art, birding, culture, entertainment, life, music, television, thoughts on August 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I’ve found a “new” song I like. It’s the theme to the Reebok commercial “Join the Migration.” The singer’s voice is gorgeous, and the song has this alluring, haunting quality. I like it so much I’m almost ready to buy one of their t-shirts. It begins with men looking slowly skyward and includes bird imagery; [...]

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Male Pattern Blindness

Posted in culture, humor, life, politics, thoughts on June 13, 2008 | 10 Comments »

 I don’t always notice things, I admit. Or, rather, I may not always notice things that others notice, such as, perhaps, my wife.
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Tagged, and ‘taggering to the post

Posted in life, thoughts on June 12, 2008 | 8 Comments »

I was tagged a while back: “… write a blog with 10 weird, random, facts, habits or goals about yourself ….” Twice. I even jotted down some notes but it has taken too dang long for them to find electricity. Here goes:
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The Steadfastness of Mom-Dog

Posted in animals, dogs, entertainment, humor, life, pets, travel on June 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Last weekend we were up in the foothills of the Sierras, visiting some of the little Gold Country towns connected by highway 49, named for the miners who arrived there a century and a half ago, hoping to strike it rich.
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Hillary Clinton (and Ron Paul)

Posted in culture, life, politics, rants, thoughts on June 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »

First of all, I like Hillary Clinton. I do not like her as much now as I did half a year ago, but underneath the me-first attitude is a politician whose principles I generally agree with and respect.
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Matrimonial Amusments

Posted in culture, humor, life on May 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »

It was called the war between the sexes, years ago. But some of that hyperbole might have been media-driven — these days I’d call it more like friendly skirmishing. And it’s all the better when each side can take a joke.
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When organization is key

Posted in commute, life, technology, thoughts, travel on April 20, 2008 | 13 Comments »

 
On my way back to the house the other morning I realized where my wife’s keys were (also where she wouldn’t know they were) and that there was no way she’d have gotten out the door in time. I didn’t know it yet, but it was only one link in the mayhem.
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The Hammer & Sickle, Olympic Torch, and Tibetan flag

Posted in culture, life, politics, thoughts, travel on April 9, 2008 | 16 Comments »

After disembarking from the ferry this morning the first thing I noticed, as I approached the plaza, was all the crowd-control barriers up. Oh, bother, I thought. The barriers lined much of The Embarcadero. As we left the ferry gate at pier 2 they blocked our usual jay-walking routes across the Embarcadero to Justin Hermann [...]

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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton

Posted in culture, life, politics, rants, thoughts on April 6, 2008 | 28 Comments »

 A friend emailed me this question recently: 

What do you think of Barack and Hillary?

I never thought I’d feel sorry for Hillary. But I do. I like Barack. But I’m kind of amused by the prevailing optimism about him.
  
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Wham-bam toodle-oo, bamboo, and pictures, too — part four

Posted in animals, dogs, gardening, life, nature, pets on March 31, 2008 | 16 Comments »

So it works now. I have this nifty ”visual” toolbar in my WordPress “Write” screen, along with my “code” toolbar, and it makes it way easier to place photos in the post. No more hassling with pictures running off the screen, etc. Once I import the picture I’ve cropped elsewhere  I have a little box I grab [...]

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