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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Digital, not digital
Roland’s crossword puzzle this morning had a reference to chisenbop, a manual reckoning system where you use your fingers like the beads of an abacus. I hadn’t heard about chisenbop for decades, not since I saw a TV ad for … Continue reading
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Bioblitz!
Via Botany Photo of the Day comes word of the First Annual Blogger Bioblitz. In honor of National Wildlife Week, April 21 – 29, participants … from across the country will choose a wild or not-so-wild area and find how … Continue reading
Posted in In the Field, Natural Sciences
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Maybe the walls next?
Silver Spring Stage is getting a badly-needed makeover of the flooring and ceilings of its backstage areas, and some of the shabbier partitions are coming down, too. Decades of hard use have reduced the tile to a crumble, as you … Continue reading
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At the park: 5
We’re seeing one or two exceptionally dark eggshells in a couple of the boxes this season. Pictured is the interior of box #2. New spring arrivals include Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) flowering on the forest floor and the broken-glass tinkle … Continue reading
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Lessons learned
A headset does not fit over a cheap hairnet without shredding it. Performing a relaxation exercise (yoga Corpse pose) on the deck—while sound is running through its cues (thunder, fire exits announcement, a eggshell crack for the elephant bird that … Continue reading
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Giant steps
Podcast documentary of the life and works of John Coltrane.
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Very messy
The recently ex- management company of my housing cluster is in deep kimchee with Commonwealth authorities.
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Upcoming: 1
Arena Stage has announced its 2007-08 season, starting off with a world première of 33 Variations, a co-production with Tectonic Theater Project, directed by Moisés Kaufman.
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The next next big thing?
kottke.org explains the appeal of Twitter, or lack thereof. If your friends are not on Twitter, I can’t imagine it would be that interesting.
Posted in Tools and Technology
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The fine line between clever and stupid
Via kottke.org, massively abusing regular expressions and successive divisions by potential factors to determine whether a number is prime in one line of Perl code.
Posted in Computing and Mathematics
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Fearful symmetry: 2
A team led by Jeffrey Adams at the University of Maryland has rendered a map of the gobsmackingly complex E8, a Lie group (sounds like “Lee”). E8 describes the symmetries of a particular 57-dimensional object. A two-dimensional color projection of … Continue reading
Hazards
The special hazard on this show is confetti. In the Act 1 sequence where Horton sits on the egg through storm and changing seasons, the Cat pelts him with water from a super soaker, a bucket of autumn leaves, and … Continue reading
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At the park: 4
Paul has done a good job of recruiting new volunteers for the nest box program this year. Christine joined us last week, and Warren and Lisa yesterday. They were rewarded, so to speak, with the job of chopping through quarter-inch … Continue reading
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Billion-dollar legacy
Steven Henry Madoff visits the trove of more than 2000 works by abstract expressionist Clyfford Still, until now in storage as part of his estate, and planned for a new museum to open in Denver in 2010. [Clyfford] Still once … Continue reading
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Too bad
Laura Erickson has found it necessary to leave binoculars.com.
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