Month: April 2013
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An Afternoon at Birch Aquarium
A couple of days ago I visited the Birch Aquarium with a friend. It was a very nice little aquarium with a focus on local (southern Californian) sealife. I learned a lot about local fish and a bit more about the tide pools (that I still need to re-visit). My favorite exhibits were of the octopus…
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Thoughts on Boston, Editorial Choices, and why I’m choosing not to look.
This has been stewing in my mind for a couple of days, so you’ll have to bear with me. The whole world is aware of the bombings that took place two days ago at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Thanks to this age of social media, in which everyone has a phone and…
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Confessions of a PC owner
I’m sitting here waiting for some stuff to finish uninstalling from my computer (spring cleaning happens EVERYWHERE in this house), so I thought I’d make some observations about my almost six-year-old computer. In the interest of full disclosure, you should know that I’m not what you might call computer savvy. I’m very social-network-savvy (at least,…
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Another evening in Old Town, San Diego
Since I was running low on tea, J and I headed to the coffee and tea shop in Old Town this afternoon. I found some other random things while we were there, including a small tin shop with these gorgeous tin stars. They remind me of Moravian stars from back home in North Carolina, and…
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Doctor Who Commentary: Thoughts on the Cold War
Now that I’ve seen the Doctor Who episode called “The Cold War,” I have some observations. They are below the cut because SPOILERS, sweetie.
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Wizardly Commentary: Thoughts on Oz, the Great and Powerful
((SPOILER WARNING)) Tonight we saw Oz, the Great and Powerful, the new movie from Disney that is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz. Strange, perhaps, to release a prequel 74 years after the original movie, but maybe we needed this long for Oz to permeate our pop culture, and for us to be ready for another…
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Living Room, at last
Over the weekend, J and I finally (FINALLY!) got rid of the last of our “extra” stuff. We donated the vast majority of it (including the last of our free furniture from when we were first married) to a local group that runs three thrift stores that benefit disabled veterans– Disabled American Veteran Thrift Stores.…
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Southwestern Wildlife Spotting: Volume 1
The following are some accounts of wildlife I’ve seen since moving to California. This isn’t an exhaustive list, mostly just of those animals I’ve photographed, but there are a few I’ve ID’ed with no photo (which makes me sad… but still happy I saw them). Not all of the photos are fantastic, but they “work”…
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Doctor Who Commentary: Thoughts on The Rings of Akhenaten
Because this is the new episode, all of my THOUGHTS will be after the page break. After all, SPOILERS, Sweetie.
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I got nothin’.
blog post. ((That is the lovely contribution from J, when I told him I couldn’t think of anything to write today. THANKS, HONEY.)) But really, I got nothin’. I liked this week’s episode of Doctor Who. It had a “classic Who” feel to it. Maybe I’ll write about that tomorrow? I mean, I kind of…
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