Saturday, February 14, 2009

A Valentine's Day Parable

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Comic from Oregon Live The scene: a kitchen counter with several bags of groceries. A couple, who we will call Spouse 1 and Spouse 2, are a...
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Not Just Valentine's Day

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Today is also Oregon's 150th birthday! (See here , here and here .) Happy Birthday, Oregon! It's hard to believe I've been in ...
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Valentine's Day Scone

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The Strawberry-almond Valentine's day scones are already gone... grab a chocolate-cherry edition quick!
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Caturday In the Cupboard

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moar funny pictures Actually she's not closing the door; she's making sure that it's open and that I can see her. Here's why...
Friday, February 13, 2009

A Mercenary by Any Other Name...

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...would still smell. moar funny pictures I can't bring myself to tag this with "humor." Followup: I realized that not everyo...

I'm Not Superstitous

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So today is Friday the 13th. I'm not too worried. As the Pogo cast and crew never tired of saying, Friday the 13th is a much bigger de...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Prescient

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OK, not really; even 15 years ago anyone paying attention could see the path we were on. But this Calvin and Hobbes comic , from 15 years a...
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Well, I'll Be A Monkey's Nephew!

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I wasn't expecting to do anything for Darwin Day (today is the 200th anniversary of both his and Abraham Lincoln's births), not beca...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

That's Just History

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When Hitler developed the V-2 rocket and started bombarding England with it, the US realized the importance of having a manned observation p...
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Ka-Blam!

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Two satellites have just collided in orbit, about 500 miles over Siberia. There doesn't appear to be a whole lot known yet. This could ...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Saturday Bulletin

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This is a webcomic where the technique is to find some retro/old-style picture, then caption it with a (frequently very dark) punchline that...

Dispossesed

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Couple of old jokes, one new to me, that are appropos to our times: Did you hear about the guy who fell behind on the payments to his exorci...

When All Else Fails

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I've been following XKCD for a while , but I've never gone through the entire archive. I hadn't seen this one before. Hat ti...

Metric Conversions

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This was going around as an e-mail many years ago, and I decided to see if I could track it down. The metric system is an elegant, easy to ...

The Effin' Weather

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So after yesterday's "woo-hoo, spring is nearly here " post, it's been downhill. Rainy, cold, 35 degrees... and it was sn...
Monday, February 9, 2009

Springing Forth

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I saw this comic earlier, and thought about posting it, but I've already posted a few and don't want to use too many from the same s...

Sign Hacking

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...has apparently become quite the thing amongst our society's un- or under-employed, computer literate citizenry(remember this from a ...

(Not Quite a) Monday Mineral: Obsidian

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It was interesting trying to decide whether to post these as "rocks" or "minerals." Technically they're rocks, but i...

More IZ People

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Getting started on coffee, and there's a table of IZ people right in front of me. I have my camera with today's Monday Mineral pictu...
Sunday, February 8, 2009

Banangelina Jolie

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When I came into my favorite coffee shop this morning, there was a flyer for a special that I gather has run before, but that I have never ...
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