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Blog neglect

Posted in Blogging, Navel-Gazing on May 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Busy, busy, busy. In the meantime, there’s always the “Blog” of Unnecessary Quotation Marks.

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Missy Higgins

Posted in Navel-Gazing, fun, tagged , , on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Jo-anne has made a project of reorienting me towards a more Australian temperament. Her tactics are subtle but persistent. If I send her off to the video store, for instance, she comes home with some Aussie movie or another.
The most insidious of her methods includes buying CDs of Australian bands and playing them [...]

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Weekend Links

Posted in Blogging, Navel-Gazing on April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The New York Times has a piece on Ansel Adams.
Spot the fake smile!
Get your fix of Cicada Mania.
And finally…Polar Bear Tacos?

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Shish Boom Bam

Posted in Navel-Gazing, tagged , , on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »

While googling about for the latest CD by the Rustic Overtones (Light at the End), I discovered that copies of Shish Boom Bam are now selling for as high as $350. Shish is the crappy old recording from 1994 when I used to play trumpet with the band, back when R.O. were all rosy-cheeked [...]

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Tim Minchin brings us Peace in the Mideast

Posted in Current Events, Navel-Gazing, fun, tagged , , , on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »


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Is English Capable of Sustaining Demagogery?

Posted in Navel-Gazing, fun, tagged , on March 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Fry & Laurie on the inanity of academic discourse:

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Human Tetris

Posted in Navel-Gazing, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on February 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I know this is utterly off-topic for a bug blog, but Human Tetris is so strangely fascinating that I have to share:

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Here’s a new excuse…

Posted in Blogging, Navel-Gazing, Paraguay, Science, tagged , on January 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »

My lovely wife Jo-anne has been in South America the last couple weeks doing field research on Argentine ants while I tend the home fires here in Tucson. I hope she finds it in her to forgive me for the post I am about to write.
Earlier today I got an email explaining why I’m [...]

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This is unnerving.

Posted in Ants, Blogging, Current Events, Navel-Gazing on December 17, 2007 | No Comments »

An image search for one of my favorite ants, the Atta leafcutters, returns a jarring juxtaposition of terrorists and ants:
Google Search: “Atta”

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Things to come…

Posted in Blogging, Navel-Gazing, Photography on December 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Light posting over the last couple days, I’m afraid. Our kitten Mingus came down with a little kitty fever this morning of 106º (That’s 41ºC for the Fahrenheit- impaired) and is spending the night in the pet hospital, enough of a distraction to derail my blogging schedule.
Don’t despair, though, there is freshy bloggy [...]

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