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Favorite Web Comics- AppleGeeks: Issue 574 | The Part July 30, 2010
- Dreamland Chronicles: Page 1138… July 30, 2010
- Girl Genius: Girl Genius for Friday, July 30, 2010 July 30, 2010
- Megatokyo: Comic [1278] "what i hate about you" July 30, 2010
- Order of the Stick: 738: Pooling Resources
- Penny Arcade: Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Three July 30, 2010
- Penny Arcade: News: Blood And Oil, Part Three July 30, 2010
- Penny Arcade: News: P To The A To The T And Also V July 30, 2010
- Real Life Comics: strip for July / 30 / 2010 July 30, 2010
- XKCD: University Website July 30, 2010
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- Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Harvest Book) by C.G. Jung
- Buddhism without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor
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Another Visit to SL7B
I went back again last night and visited some more of the installations (there are really too many things there to see in the span of one evening.)
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SL7B
This week is the seventh anniversary of the Second Life virtual world. To mark this anniversary, they are holding a seventh “birthday” party (SL7B) with a large collection of exhibits created by many of the Second Life “residents,” as they … Continue reading
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Still Alive
Despite the efforts of the universe, particularly in the form of school children at the California Academy of Sciences (at least one of whom was carrying a simply delightful cold virus), I am still alive.
Where Did I Go?
Ok. So, it would seem it has been a while since I last posted anything here… certainly nothing since Georgie died. It has been an eventful few months, but I will only mention a couple of things here.
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One Less Light in my World
I don’t know how many of you reading this blog knew her, but my rabbit Georgie died this morning. Most of you for whom I am keeping this blog (my friends and family, really) will have met her at some … Continue reading
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Ask the Pilot
This has nothing to do with anything, but I just thought I would share: One of my absolute favorite columns published on the web is Salon’s Ask the Pilot, written by Patrick Smith. The author is a professional airline pilot, … Continue reading
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Fun with Mashups (Part 2)
Earlier, I wrote a quick sketch to show how you can use Yahoo! Pipes to build a new RSS feed summarizing recent activity on some favorite websites (in this case, web comics). That is all very well, but how do … Continue reading
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Fun with Mashups (Part 1)
I haven’t been blogging much about technology stuff, but lately I’ve been playing with some neat new technology that I think is worth writing about. There are a couple of pieces involved, so I’ll break this up over a couple … Continue reading
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Things That go Bump in the Night
As you may have seen in the news, we had a bit of a rumble last night… a 5.6 magnitude earthquake. It was only a few miles from my house, so I really felt it. It was the strongest quake … Continue reading
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Vacation
I just got back last night from a little trip back to Indiana to visit with the family. We didn’t really do anything terribly exciting, just visits with the family… although we did take a little hike in Spring Mill … Continue reading
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