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nature photos, Great Hill (Acton)
I spent an hour this afternoon walking a couple of miles and taking some pictures. Full album is over on my website.
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My predictions for 2013
- Apple, having exhausted their existing target market, will try to sell portable computing for cats. At the very least, excess heat will not bother the potential customers.
- A major automaker will introduce a dashboard coffeemaker as factory option; Keurig stock skyrockets.
- The Red Sox do not have the bench depth to win the Stanley Cup.
- Apple, having exhausted their existing target market, will try to sell portable computing for cats. At the very least, excess heat will not bother the potential customers.
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How I met Crash
I was asked, on Facebook, to relate how I met "Crash," now a neighbor and less significantly older than he used to be. This is the tale, as best I recall it ( Read more... ) -
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few years ago, after a storm left extended power outages for many
people in my area, I wrote an essay on "why I don't own a generator.With a few more years experience, and one multi-day outage of my own ( Read more... ) -
Help! Fermi Questions needed.
I turn to the social networks for help as I have procrastinated too long before starting to write the quiz for the Rhode Island Science Olympiad event I will be running on Saturday afternoon. I am running the Fermi Questions event, which I have done before (and bored the ears off of some of you in the process ( Read more... ) -
Contemplating the phrase "losing my edge"
When the edge is on a skate blade, the loss is remarkably obvious. Neither I nor the skates had been on ice in a few years, and I'm not sure which one was more difficult this afternoon. If I'd been paying attention, I would've gotten my skates sharpened before using them rather than after; as it is, I can only guess how much of my incompetence I ( Read more... )
