Figaro’s friend. (Such a cute dog.) (Seriously. He’s 20 times more adorable than this picture can convey and he’s pretty darned cute in said picture.)
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Monthly Archives: September 2005
Express your personal style in resin
Monday, September 19th, 2005
I received a catalog of sheer weirdness today: Design Toscano. Every page has a new horror or six made of resin. Let’s start with the cover, shall we? On the cover is something called “The Subservient Dragon Glass-Topped Sculptural Table.†This is a use of the word subservient with which I am unfamiliar because the [...]
What’s not there anymore
Friday, September 9th, 2005
NOAA has a satellite image index map that allows you to zero in on areas of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana to see what either isn’t there anymore or has been rearranged into piles of timber, metal, and glass. Start clicking in the black squares to zoom in on an area. Brace yourself; it’s shocking. ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM
Science made stupid
Friday, September 9th, 2005
My copy of Science Made Stupid arrived in the mail yesterday. Yippee!!!
Autumnal pulchritude
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
The past several days have been really beautiful in the DC metro area. Autumn is unofficially here (official, or meteorological, autumn starts in a couple of weeks) complete with beautiful deep blue skies, high clouds, cooler temperatures, and gentle breezes. I know there will be another burst of really hot weather this month but that’s [...]
Chinquapin
Saturday, September 3rd, 2005
Today is the first day of a festival in the mountains. The name of the festival reminded me of the fact that my grandparents had a Chinquapin tree in the orchard and that I looooooooooved the Chinquapin nuts even though they were a real pain in the ass to get to because of the spiky [...]