From the monthly archives:

June 2009

ipod Shuffle Code Cracked (aka my iPod is Artificially Intelligent)

June 26, 2009

While that title is relevant it is also a double entendre meant to bring the drooling apple fanatics by the thousands. Though they may be quickly disappointed, I still as ever ascribe to the philosophy that any attention good or bad is better than no attention at all. So: I’ve been listening to my ipod [...]

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Theme of the Day

June 17, 2009

White hair, porcelain skin. Somehow, some days, one thing will jump out again and again and again. I think it’s the light.

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Self-Soothing

June 17, 2009

In Sam Sheridan’s A Fighter’s Heart he talks about dogs that will fight for forty-five minutes without letting up versus the dogs that quit earlier. He quotes a trainer: “All this care, you must love the animal, and if the animal loves you back, you will get a dog that fights past forty-five minutes, an [...]

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Quote of the Day

June 17, 2009

“There are no limits to love. It is quite merciless.” – A.L. Kennedy, On Bullfighting

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Dancer

June 10, 2009

Two blog posts in one day I announced proudly to the freshly-napped missus. Thinking I naturally would have written about the very emotional baby sighting this morning she posted her own version of events, then checked on mine to see that yet again, I had only written about the stupid yard. Man is a slave [...]

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Wanted: Rhinoceros

June 10, 2009

I want something unbelievably strange for the back wood. Look at it, sitting there all tame and smug. It’s virtually begging for it. Something larger-than-life, something shocking, something that will scare the neighbors and send home values plunging. What I really want is this: This is Xavier Veilhan’s Rhinoceros we saw at the Pompidou and [...]

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Brag Blog

June 10, 2009

To confirm my suspicions that the only reason I have a blog in my name is to enhance my status in others’ eyes, I will now proceed to boast nonstop for 500+ words (with pictures!). When we moved into el rancho robino the back yard sloped from the sides of the house gently to the [...]

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Frontiers

June 10, 2009

Frontier Airlines is based in Colorado. That used to be the frontier. Then Oregon. Then we hit water. But the beauty of Now is that we can cross that water and find our new frontiers so far West we’re East again. This oscar meyer insight may be 18 years late but hey — you can’t [...]

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