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why do i have to go thru this year after year after....part one edited
I love the March Hare! But whatever is that strange cartoon beast, last pic of your blog, nan?— October 21, 2009 3:41 p.m.
Beware Buying Biotech on Basis of Ballyhoo
Bossanova beat? I'm buyin'! :)— October 21, 2009 3:27 p.m.
That Mad Hatter Costume SDaniels...and PIKE I'd know u anywhere
I want the pink Cheshire cat t-shirt on one of those sites I posted. I would wear it for Halloween, as it doesn't look like I'm gonna be up for the costume affairs this year. Too bad, I love dressing up as anything--from sexy to silly. One year I went as the Pied Piper: brown velvet, feathered hat, dangling a big ole fake rat on a string-- and playing the one portion of a classical piece I knew on the soprano recorder :)— October 21, 2009 3:16 p.m.
In which Pike, in a stroke of Genius, attempts to reconcile Linguistics, Biology, History, and Math in one Swell Foop
"Is it feasible that language (or even biology) might be headed towards a sort of degree-zero? Can that degree-zero actually be achieved.." I think this is a rhetorical musing, but no, it will never happen. We will certainly lose (and have lost) from our American English lexicon the circulation of quite a few multisyllabic terms, but a degree zero (see Smithson, again, for this concept, and Barthes has an amusing early book that influenced him, "Writing Degree Zero)) will not, and cannot logically happen. And that news is doubleplusgood.— October 21, 2009 3:12 p.m.
Snapshots of all sides of San Diego neighborhoods
They really dug into the archives for these Neighborhood blog snippets, and ONCE AGAIN passed me by! What's wrong with my--at least realistic--descriptions of Banker's Hill, people?! Burwell's tweaker/meth comment? Sorry, but untrue characterization, and he wrote that just to shut down someone being chirpy and smiley about moving here. I have lived on Banker's Hill for about seven years, and do not see a lot of drug traffic. I do see a fair number of homeless drunk men, and a LOT of dog walkers. Are they all drug dealers, Burwell? ;)— October 21, 2009 1:52 p.m.
That Mad Hatter Costume SDaniels...and PIKE I'd know u anywhere
Didn't you find the two Alice costumes for dogs, nan? One is Alice, and the other the Red Queen. It sounds like Rdog might be a boy, and not appreciate that added indignity...?— October 21, 2009 12:53 p.m.
This Just In! One Out of Three Ex-Smokers Misses Smoking!
Adam, I thought you might get a kick out of this. As the lone smoker of two families, I am the one to be e-mail "interviewed" about my nasty habit; studied as a mere statistic in a fifth-grader's science class, as well as perhaps a moralistic coda to her oral component of the presentation: :) When did you start smoking? > > How old were you? > > Why did you start? > > Have you tried to stop? > > Why or why not? > > > Thanks so much. This is part of my science homework and it is due on Thursday. We are exploring the respiratory system and the circulatory system in class. Here were my particular answers: If anyone else wants to 'fess up about their disgusting habit of inhaling and spewing black fumes upon the rest of society, feel free to fill out the brief questionnaire--it is for a good cause! SD's answers: (note the guilty tone) I guess I should answer as punishment for smoking: 1-3. I first smoked a cigarette around 14 years old, out of curiosity. 4. Yes, and succeeded, several times. One time I started back, people around me were astonished, as they could not picture me as a smoker. Each time I have started back, it has been due to emotional stress. Obviously, I need better ways to deal with emotional stress :) For the record, the next time I stop will be FOREVER, hopefully within the next few months.— October 21, 2009 12:50 p.m.
Oh, Tempura, Oh, Morels!
Fred, this one failed. :)— October 20, 2009 11:26 p.m.
Time For CPS To Ring Another One Up...
"I betcha "Balloon Boy's" daddy is feeling like he's in the ninth level of Dante's Inferno! And well he should--to pull such a hoax is bad enough, but to use your kid...willing or otherwise...as a pawn in this horrid hellride? The only sympathy this twerp is going to find will be in Webster's New World Dictionary, between "sucker" and "syphillis."" I am growing quite fond of your hyperbole, Robbie :) You know, somewhere else I commented that I was glad that CPS was (allegedly) going to check out the fitness of these parents. But your wife's point about the tenacity of the "system," once a child is in its clutches, is a very good point. Whatever is best for the children--truly best for them--should happen. If this means hanging out with some huckster parents for another five or ten, so be it--as long as they are not abused. I guess things could be worse than a daddy who tries to sucker the media...— October 20, 2009 9:13 p.m.
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SPAM ALERT.— October 20, 2009 7:59 p.m.