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Back to: Poor Clio; or, back to: Past history
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4.21.2000/19:05 CDT |
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There is on the Internet a place
for those who want to remember all the glory that was Studio 54. |
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4.21.2000/11:15 CDT |
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While installing
a new shower curtain this morning, I had
to stand on a ladder; and though we try to be reasonably clean and neat
around our house, I immediately saw, along the top ledges of things, that
which had me calling out for a damp washcloth. Which has me wondering, what
sorts or things do people who are seven
feet tall see when they come to your house? |
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4.21.2000/09:15 CDT |
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I had a friend once who went to a "doctor"
whose repertoire included the coffee enema. But he
declined her offered hose. |
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4.20.2000/16:10 CDT |
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Richard Baker's brush
with death. |
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| 4.20.2000/11:15 CDT |
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| Just the thing if someone on your gift
list has a high-heel fetish. |
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4.20.2000/09:25 CDT |
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These athletes are
going for all the marbles. |
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4.20.2000/01:25 CDT |
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There have been postings
on innumerable blogs about the Area 51 photos featured now on Terraserver;
let us not forget that there is in some corners the suggestion of a similar situation (perpahs even
a concealed city) on Mars (if you go to this
site, run your mouse down to the spot on the photo where you think Martians would hide a secret city,
and read the pop-up box). |
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4.19.2000/21:35 CDT |
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If you're running SETI@home on your
computer, or even if you're not, you might find interest in this AP story about the SETI team
setting up a new array of dish antennae in California. |
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4.19.2000/09:40 CDT |
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In what may be a scene for
an era that has acknowledged the man/woman-Mars/Venus dichotomy, Susan and I went with our
friends Patrick and Elizabeth to the movies last night, mildly intending at the outset to all
watch Erin Brockovich, but after about four minutes of it,
slunk over to the screening room next door for Rules of Engagement. Both of
them lawyer movies, but the Samuel Jackson pic begins with Viet Nam battle action, so the
women retuned to the Julia Roberts cleavage epic. They said it was lousy. We told them that they had
left Rules just when the bloodiest part was over, and that they missed a good flick. It was a lawyer movie, except
with no cleavage. |
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4.18.2000/22:00 CDT |
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Here's an idea about what happened to Atlantis...and
where it was in the first place. |
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| 4.18.2000/06:55 CDT |
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| And now, here is my rant
about installation programs for Windows software: I don't want your new icon on my desktop. I don't want your new icon
in four different places on my start menu. I don't want your new icon in my tray, and I especially, especially
don't want your new icon in my startup folder. I want, when I install this program, to be able to
put one icon for it, in a spot where it belongs, branched by the category to which your program belongs. If your
installation can't offer me that option, then I can go to the folder where your program will newly
reside and make a shortcut on my own and put it were I want it. I can really figure out how to do this. Please give me that chance. |
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4.18.2000/06:40 CDT |
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Good article today in the
Washington Post about
Louisiana's four-term ex-governor Edwin Edwards extortion trial in Baton Rouge. He has been tried before,
but never convicted. The trial is winding down now, and we may have a verdict in not too many days. |
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4.17.2000/20:20 CDT |
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Interesting 3-D optical illusion: find
the black dot. |
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4.17.2000/14:30 CDT |
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Attention teachers!
Looking for that special activity to perk up your students? Try a field
trip to the cemetery. |
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| I love looking at these Old English Playing Cards. And here
are some more old cards. |
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4.16.2000/18:30 CDT |
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Okay, so now I know where I want to live.
In the penthouse of the Woolworth Building. |
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4.16.2000/17:40 CDT |
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Here is a picture of two people with
whom I share my birthday. |
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4.16.2000/09:40 CDT |
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Interesting to see that there
are still folks out there with a rant against
"that French midget, Napoleon Bonaparte." Or one that at least includes him. |
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| 4.15.2000/22:00 CDT |
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| I never did
like shopping at Ikea all that much, but boy, these people really hate Ikea. |
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4.15.2000/21:50 CDT |
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"In 8 years I'll have pod-bearing
trees for candy and soft drinks," writes the unsigned author (authoress?) about her newly discovered
tamarind pods, just one of the marvelous Supermarket Freebies for the garden...free, in the sense
that presumably one has already bought the fruit for eating or some such purpose. All this
and more at the frugalmoms.com site. |
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4.15.2000/12:50 CDT |
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Our friend
Lou Blackwell is having an open gallery show just now, consisting of work
from an effort called "Growing Older," which deals with stereotypes
of women's aging. While this is not a topic of top-of-mind interest for
me (I am not a woman, and Susan doesn't seem to age; we are known to some
in New Iberia as the "Dorian Gray couple"), I found the show very
absorbing, and was particularly enchanted by the fabric works. The textile
pieces are mostly items created for her senior models, and the resulting
photos are so strong that I was enmeshed in the individual presentation
rather than dwelling on the larger subject of aging...all of which, now
that I think about it, might have been the whole point. |
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4.15.2000/11:05 CDT |
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How do you plan on financing
your retirement? If you haven't got anything else working, you might think
about stockpiling some of these wrong castle
Royal stamps. |
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| 4.15.2000/10:39 CDT |
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| Some scientists are making their
own snow crystals for study purposes, and
some of them are quite beautiful. So are those from nature. |
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