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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Scoundrels
Back in the 1990s, I had a close friend who joined a multi-level marketing organization, a rather large one. One of the things she told me was that the company was experiencing strong growth overseas, in places like South Korea. … Continue reading
Posted in Annoyances
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You can’t handle the truth
Via Bits, Paul Lamere notes that, if it chose to do so, Amazon.com could derive and publish metrics of how people actually read, page by page, their Kindle-powered e-books, leveraging the data collected by Whispersync. He suggests some useful categories: … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Fiction
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Silver Line progress report: 11
WMATA is shopping for rail cars for the Silver Line (as well as to replace the aging orange 1000 series cars): Matt Johnson reports that a purchasing decision will happen in April.
Posted in Transit in D.C.
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At the park: 34
Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) is just starting to break through the leaf litter on the forest floor. Maples are heavy with blooms. The team spotted Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) and Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) along lower Barnyard Run. Box #67 … Continue reading
Posted in In the Field
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Don, beware
New peculiar spam comes in through the transom. What in the name of Michael J. Fox are they phishing for? Gullible drapers? HELLO MY NAME IS JOHN . I AM NOT SURE THAT U CAN HELP ME WITH MY CURRENT … Continue reading
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At the park: 33
Adapted from my report to park staff and the nest box team: A fast start to the season! As of our third trip out, we have nesting activity in six boxes: #7, #13 (main pond), #77, #67, #61, and #68 … Continue reading
Posted in In the Field
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Diagram
He saw the inside of the [subway] car for what it was: a controlled environment, a staging area, planned down to the last detail by people he would never know or see. No surprises in here, Lowboy said to himself. … Continue reading
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Surprises
Via kottke.org, my kind of brackets: Tyler Green has organized a tourney by polls to determine the Greatest Living American Abstract Painter. Of course, the point of a game like this is to discover someone new, and for me, the … Continue reading
Posted in Painting
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The Light in the Piazza
In their temporary digs in Crystal City, Arena delivers an effective, if modest, production of Guettel’s small-scale musical of an American mother and daughter on tour in post-war Italy, an abbreviated family unit in which daughter Clara may be less … Continue reading
Upcoming: 23
Dave Kehr reports that Paramount is releasing The African Queen on DVD via a digital restoration of the British negative. “Leeches!”
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Please don’t tell my friends
So iTunes Music Store retrieved 50 versions of “Anarchy in the U.K.,” but none of them were the one I heard in the Thai restaurant last night—sort of a warbly singer-songwriter chick with piano, Judy Tenuta having an argument with … Continue reading
Posted in Like Life
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Type here
Gillian Andrews makes some thoughtful remarks about usability, “web literacy,” and human foibles in response to the Facebook login/ReadWriteWeb flap. Interface designers aren’t helping. Most URL bars now resolve into search results. This may seem like a good UI solution, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs and Internet
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The forecast for 2010
John Brunner anticipates comment-driven media: “… and Puerto Rico today became the latest state to ratify the controversial dichromatism provision of United States eugenic legislation. This leaves only two havens for those who wish to bear disadvantaged children: Nevada and … Continue reading
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Omnibus trip report
This past weekend threatened to burn me out on field work. A trip was rescheduled for Saturday, postponed by previous snows, and I put in some extra time towards my term project, also deferred due to weather. Our final field … Continue reading
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Howth Castle [and] Environs
Is the world ready for a corrected edition of Finnegans Wake? (Via Bookslut.)
Posted in Prose Fiction
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