This is for you, 
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Have you ever been disturbed by teleport? You get destroyed in one place and an exact replica is created elsewhere. No one else notices, but I argue that you sure do! Or, at least, you would if you were still alive ( Read more... )

To those of you who have been to Rome and know it pretty well, where should we stay when we go there in March? Where are the nicer parts of town? Are those the same parts of town that are near good things to see? Coliseum? Vatican ( Read more... )

My inclination is to make my Picasa albums public. Is there a reason why I shouldn't?

I want a place to post photos for a large audience. Are my choices limited to sites that require one to sign up before being able to view a photo? If so, what's the best place: Flickr? Picasa?

I found a half-eaten pizza in our patio; the cheese and sauce were missing, having been torn away, and there were ants crawling on what was left. Two of the three neighbors are away and I can't imagine the third as having tossed it this way. [AK] mentioned having seen a big raven visiting the patio earlier.

Maybe this already made the rounds, but I got it from stochasticgirl. High typo rate, but maybe it's a pirate thing.

My pirate name is:

Iron Morgan Read


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Spring term started today, and a friend of mine from grad school at UC Berkeley came to interview for a job. His talk was great though I fear the search committee is looking for someone in a different field. I hope not because it would have been a waste of his time to have come. His talk was great and he fielded the questions very well. The work he ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a long time since my last entry, and I don't know why the following prompts me to make another entry, but I just love where I work. Here is an e-mail from our MSO this morning: "If you are storing your surf boards in the 1000 building mechanical room, please remove them immediately. Facilities will dispose of them if they are not ( Read more... )

from http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002485.html"ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a completely staged event. Their crew witnessed how the open air food distribution point Bush visited in front of the cameras was torn down immediately after the president and the herd of 'news people' had left and that others which were allegedly ( Read more... )