New Laptop Diary Part 5

September 29th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

In which the author strug­gles to get the lap­top talk­ing to a net­worked inkjet printer.

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Reflections

September 27th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

Cliche? Yes. Been-there-done-that? Yes. Cheesy title? You bet. But I like them so here they are.
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Greetings From Biggest Frog, USA

September 26th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

Well in my life I’ve spent a sub­stan­tial amount of time in the woods, par­tic­u­larly around lakes in Ohio as a kid, and I’ve never seen a frog this size. It’s hard to tell the scale from the pic­ture, but it was as big as a cor­nish hen you’d find in the super­mar­ket.
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Extremely Scary Thing

September 22nd, 2007 | 0 Comments | Travelogues, Uncategorizable |

One of the spots I fre­quently do trav­el­ogues from, South Moun­tain Reser­va­tion, was the scene of a very scary hap­pen­ing today. A friend of mine was walk­ing her dogs up there and stum­bled across some para­mil­i­tary types shoot­ing auto­matic weapons at trees. You can read the whole thing here. I know the writer of this […]

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Maple Falls

September 12th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Travelogues |

Hard to get to and far from any place to park, South Moun­tain Reservation’s Maple Falls is a lot less pop­u­lar than its cousin Hem­lock Falls.

At the edge

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She’s Filled With Secrets

September 12th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Entertainment |

The strangest five min­utes in tele­vi­sion his­tory.

Remem­ber Twin Peaks?

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What A Day That Was

September 9th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Music |

Here’s a really good clip from YouTube of Talk­ing Heads at the top of their game.

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System Upgrade

September 8th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

I finally got around to upgrad­ing the blog soft­ware. There’s a gen­er­a­tion of plu­g­ins com­ing on line that weren’t com­pat­i­ble with the ver­sion I’d been using. One of the toys I wanted to work in is a poll. Click through and try it out!

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Mushrooms in the Reservation

September 8th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Travelogues |

It’s fall and the fun­gus are out in force. Here are a few I’ve spot­ted recently.
Coral mushroom

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Smoked Trout Mousse

September 6th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Food |

I made this last week­end to bring to a party, and from start to on-my-way-out-the-door was under an hour. And that’s includ­ing the fairly tedious carved-out toma­toes business. DSC_05340014.JPG

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The Bourne Ultimatum

September 2nd, 2007 | 0 Comments | Entertainment, Movies |

Or, The Apoth­e­o­sis Of The Chase Scene

I caught the third of this trio of films last night, and I can’t rec­om­mend the series enough.

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