So Romano gets his arm chopped off by a helicopter rotor and it takes a backseat to the Abby/Carter love-drama. What a gyp. Romano is (was) a terrific surgeon and a reliable administrator. He was a great catalyst because he was never afraid to say what was on his mind. Sure he pissed me off […]

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Got to thinking about my first car again. I’m sure you remember that it was a 1961 Ford Falcon that looked just like the red one on this page only it was chalk white, a couple of dings here and there but otherwise in great condition. The engine was so small that you could stand […]

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I’ve been doing a lot of work on the content management system I built some months ago, and I think I’ve finally got it working so that both Ari and I can use it for our separate blogs. Here are two screenshots: the main menu and the the new entry/edit screen. Very basic, but it […]

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There’s a word I haven’t thought of in a long time. Fiddlesticks. As in, “Aaw, fiddlesticks!”
But that’s not what I wanted to talk about. What I wanted to talk about, which is something that I’ll talk about in just a moment, is something completely unrelated to fiddlesticks and absolutely should not be construed as being […]

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Geordie Martinez, the evil comedian and a friend of ours from Gallup, New Mexico, is on the front page of Macromedia (Flash required, he’s the far-right silhouette). It’s all about components, baby.

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I choked. I didn’t mean to, but I did. Halfway through telling my story at Fray Day 6 last night, I got so nervous that I completely lost my ability to speak and I had to stop. I don’t know why I got so nervous, I’ve told the story before (it’s a combination of the […]

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One of my supplementary duties at this library is to check in serials. You, of course, know that a serial is just a fancy word for magazine, right? Right. Most of our serials are of the highly dry variety: Congressional Yellow Book, HR Manager’s Legal Reporter, American Statistical Index. Nothing quite as interesting as, say, […]

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A few nights ago, Ari pointed out a small, narrow discoloration on the wall behind the armoire. Upon closer examination, I discovered it was a pink gecko. I hadn’t seen one in several months, at least not in the house. It was beautiful, a very soft shade of pink with slightly darkish splotches on its […]

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Heading off to work after taking boy to school, I found myself behind a late 80s model Nissan that was riding the bumper of the Isuzu Trooper in front of it. (I always get nervous when I see people tailgating so insistently, and I try to fall as far behind as possible so as to […]

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