Edible Geography

Brother Dennis turns me on to another kind of food blog: http://www.ediblegeography.com/

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Problem-Solving

Inspirational? Takes me back to my boyhood days on the farm.

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World Clock

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From IBM: 100 Years

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Amazing But Stupid?

More here.

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Bullitt, More

Perhaps you saw the July 30, 2010 post on this subject. Here’s a bit more from today’s Wall Street Journal.

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A Recommended Read

Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer-prize-winning 1985 novel, is one of the books Ivi is reading for her American Lit class this term. Since Ivi was recently at home sick in bed, Kim revived an old family tradition and started reading it aloud. I soon caught the apparently-same illness and while staying home from work for a few days, I listened in and also took up the reading chores. We got through about 250 of the novel’s nearly 1,000 pages by the time Ivi had recovered and decided to read it silently on her own to quicken the pace.  I hope to return to the thing soon because, while I thought the 90s TV miniseries — my only experience with Lonesome Dove to this point — was pretty decent, the darn (“dern” in cowboy-speak) book is flat terrific: colorful, hilarious, gripping, detail-rich, and almost impossible to put down.  Only 750 pages to go …

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Eighteen Years On

Today, on the occasion of Ivi’s 18th, I came upon an early Polaroid, dating back to her very second day (sorry, tried to find the authentic first day, but not yet) …

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Calculus, Documented

Upon hearing considerable laughter at a late hour last night, I came upon this scene. But I was shown that Nik and Ivi were simply comparing Nik’s college-level calculus with Ivi’s high school variant last night. Please forgive the handheld one second exposure, but documentation of actual study time doesn’t happen every day.

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Man In A Blizzard

Here is an utterly remarkable short film made on December 26 — and astonishingly completed by the next day — of the recent New York City blizzard. Watch it here, but don’t miss the back story on Roger Ebert’s blog.

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