Monthly Archives: February 2008

More conservation tradeoffs

Posted on Friday, 29 February 2008 by David Gorsline

Emma Marris reviews the range of schemes for making choices in conservation biology and even uses the charged word “triage” for Nature‘s 8 November 2007 issue (paywall-protected link). The EDGE program (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered) of the Zoological Society … Continue reading →

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Late in the day, but I remembered

Posted on Monday, 25 February 2008 by David Gorsline

Happy birthday, Michael.

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Are you watching?

Posted on Sunday, 24 February 2008 by David Gorsline

In addition to the shows that I see for fun, especially those with my friends in them, I’m an adjudicator for WATCH, also known by the backronym Washington Area Theatre Community Honors. (As I’ve posted elsewhere, generally I don’t comment … Continue reading →

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Adaptation

Posted on Friday, 22 February 2008 by David Gorsline

… a cult of religious veneration for the wishes of the composer now rules the musical roost. [Richard] Wagner himself played a big part in promoting this by putting out a lot of self-serving propaganda about art being pretty well … Continue reading →

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Some links: 24

Posted on Friday, 22 February 2008 by David Gorsline

Shorpy has been running through a trove of images from 1920′s Washington of wrecked cars and trucks. Consider today’s entry. It’s too bad the site doesn’t let you vote for your favorites.

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Bearing gems

Posted on Thursday, 21 February 2008 by David Gorsline

Your vegetable fun fact of the day: tasty Brussels sprouts (Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera) are cultivars of the same species that give us broccoli, cauliflower, collard greens, kohlrabi, kale, and cabbage. Eat your greens!

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Erased

Posted on Tuesday, 19 February 2008 by David Gorsline

Via wood s lot comes the sad news that the French avant garde writer Alain Robbe-Grillet has passed away. Robbe-Grillet, as far as I can remember, was one of the first novelists that I discovered completely by myself. I was … Continue reading →

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Some links: 23

Posted on Tuesday, 19 February 2008 by David Gorsline

Via The Morning News: the Donald Judd, or Cheap Furniture? quiz. 83% is a passing grade at my school.

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Sugarloaf circuit

Posted on Monday, 18 February 2008 by David Gorsline

Pleasant weather and I’m off for a hike in Shenandoah National Park. New weather was coming in, so I had clouds and breezy conditions, warmth only when the sun broke through, and even a few sprinkles of rain. I walked … Continue reading →

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Short bits of string: 6

Posted on Wednesday, 13 February 2008 by David Gorsline

Via robot wisdom: find the elevation and lat-long of any Google-mapped location with EarthTools. The UI is not 100% intuitive: you have to drag the map so that the location you want information about lies in the crosshairs; you can’t … Continue reading →

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Once around the block

Posted on Sunday, 10 February 2008 by David Gorsline

Napier Shelton walks an eight-mile nature loop around Northwest D.C. for the current issue of Audubon Naturalist News. (Alas, Audubon Naturalist Society has moved its web site into a new URL- and page title-mangling content management system.) Since the days … Continue reading →

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Action at a distance

Posted on Sunday, 10 February 2008 by David Gorsline

Spookiest thing that’s happened to me since I saw the flying saucer on the Pennsylvania Turnpike (but that’s another story): I was just getting settled in to the recording booth to read Ben Bernanke’s macroeconomics textbook for undergraduates (which promises … Continue reading →

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Good on ya: 4

Posted on Sunday, 10 February 2008 by David Gorsline

Good customer service karma, ultimately, for Audio-Technica’s U.S. operations parts department. I had just started using some new ANC-7 headphones at work (why do I need noise-cancelling headphones at work? good question) when one day my IT guy arrived to … Continue reading →

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Rebuilding

Posted on Wednesday, 6 February 2008 by David Gorsline

Well, the calendar navigation is wonky (maybe it always was), and the dedicated search engine stopped working some time ago, but I have restored the archives of pedantic nuthatch and the other pages at the chorister’s c from backups after … Continue reading →

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I am not making this up

Posted on Tuesday, 5 February 2008 by David Gorsline

It just gets weirder and weirder. The former CFO of my homeowners association’s previous management company, Jeffrey Koger, who is generally believed to be responsible for embezzlement of funds between 2004 and ’06, has been charged in connection with a … Continue reading →

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