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Monthly Archives: May 2009
On deck: 2
I rotated a couple of volumes to a backlog shelf to make room for some new fiction coming in. I’m reading my way through the Updike Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy about as fast as he published them. The Queneau is a … Continue reading
Posted in Like Life
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All My Sons: an update: 3
So we had a solid opening weekend and now is the time of cleaning costumes. Although I have to deal with my own socks, we otherwise have the luxury with the Players of a team responsible for laundering and dry … Continue reading
Posted in Backstage
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Soldiers Delight
For the holiday, I took a run up I-95 to Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, northwest of Baltimore, for a nature stroll. Stepping on to the trail at the visitors center, in a trice I lost the trail and wandered … Continue reading
Posted in In the Field
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All My Sons: an update: 2
Yesterday evening we did our first full tech run with all elements present—well, nearly so, since we didn’t have either of the two boys who are doubling Bert. I have a rather natty seersucker suit for a costume (and it’s … Continue reading
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Curling flower spaces
Via kottke.org, a surprisingly hard book quiz: identify the title from its Amazon.com Statistically Improbable Phrases. I scored only 12 (plus one near miss) out of 69 books (20th century, mostly originally in English, everything from high art to genre … Continue reading
Posted in Words Words Words
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Context and perspective
From Rebecca Mead’s profile of Christian Scheidemann, conservator of contemporary art and specialist in non-traditional materials, in the 11 May 2009 New Yorker. Scheidemann is in the process of replacing one of the tree stumps that are part of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Architecture
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Conspicuous by its absence
Linton Weeks reviews the current state of (online) surveys and survey software. Then came the Internet, interactive voice recognition and other methods of collecting data that involve less cost and quicker turnaround times for corporations thirsty for consumer information. There … Continue reading
Posted in Tools and Technology
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Some good news
Roxana Saberi is to be released from her Iranian prison today, according to her father.
Posted in Civil Liberties
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A new botany tool, perhaps
Anne Eisenberg reports on a prototype digital field guide, an iPhone app (from a team including Peter N. Belhumeur of Columbia Univ. and W. John Kress of the Smithsonian) that identifies tree species on the basis of scanning a single … Continue reading
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At the park: 30
I had intended to show Dirk the nest box with Tufted Titmouse eggs in it, but we were surprised to find that the eggs had already hatched and the nest comprised six gaping, blind mouths. As for the intended residents, … Continue reading
Posted in In the Field
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A puzzle inside a puzzle
In Rabbit Redux, Harry Angstrom has gone into his father’s trade, operating a Linotype machine. There’s a couple of passages in the book where John Updike reproduces the lines of hot type that Harry sets for a local tabloid, including … Continue reading
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Enough
3 May is World Press Freedom Day, as NPR correspondent Roxana Saberi remains imprisoned in Iran, sentenced in a closed-door trial without proper access to counsel.
Posted in Civil Liberties
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Underpants
Via Arts & Letters Daily, Stuart Jeffries explores the recent population explosion of bangs, and in passing visits a small town in Québec (named for what I think of as a feature of landscape architecture), Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! “Cut out all … Continue reading
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