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Back to: Poor Clio; or, back to: Past history
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5.26.2000/10:40 |
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On occasion I'll use the visual directory
browsing feature of Paint Shop Pro to look through my browser cache files. What always surprises
me are all the images that are stored from recent days that I have no recollection of having seen. |
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5.26.2000/09:30 |
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"A person working on
OmniTime would show up for work approximately 20 minutes later each day." Hmmm...do we know
any early adopters? |
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5.26.2000/09:25 |
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The Secret Garden:
floral radiographs provide another way of looking at flowers. |
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| 5.26.2000/09:15 |
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Blue Tits in BirdBox 39 shares the birth and progress of blue tits in Hampshire, UK. A very nice site by a beginning
web user who has learned a bit of code from a quick-study book and asks politely for suggestions, proving once again that
success is most likely where content drives style. |
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5.26.2000/09:00 |
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Two questions, really; (1) the obvious one,
which is, what is this? and (2) a bit more vexing inquiry, actually, which is, why is this parked at the
URL schadenfreude.com? |
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5.25.2000/09:30 |
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Enjoying oh so much my deliberately slow reading of
Madame Bovary. Best line so far: "The human language
is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars." |
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| 5.25.2000/09:20 |
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| The
drought continues here in
coastal Louisiana. Night before last, Susan and I were driving home from a restaurant, and on a road that tracks behind
the airport, found a turtle crossing the road (actually, two, but one had already been crushed beneath the wheels of a passing vehicle).
It was seeking water; the ditches on either side of the road had dried, and even a small retention pond Susan spotted was
dried up. We brought the creature to the (rapidly receding) lake in back of Susan's mother's house. One tiny rescue, but we
couldn't help but wonder what other animals are dying or travelling far out of their normal ranges in a desperate attempt to
get water. If you know a good rain dance, dance it for us! |
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5.25.2000/09:05 |
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I will try to remember to keep an eye on this one:
CyberGrants promises to speed the process of grant making and grant seeking by
keeping online databases of each side of the equation, and make it easy for foundations, granting agencies, etc. to match
their missions to those of grantee agencies. Nothing yet if you follow the link that is supposed to list successful CyberGrants. Soon? |
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| 5.24.2000/20:40 |
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| During the composition of the entry below on the blind dog and his
nail-biting self or companion, and also afterwards, I spent some time looking in a thesaurus, a dictionary, and even
searching some sites and news clippings (not nail clippings) looking for an uptown word for nail-biting, something like
digiphagia, or even canine digiphagia. I didn't find anything. If you know of a fancy uptown medical Latinate or whatever
term for nail-biting, please let me know. |
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5.24.2000/08:05 |
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URLs that are what they say they are:
fasterWhoIs. It's faster. |
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| 5.24.2000/08:00 |
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| All matter is made up of the three basic sub-atomic particles:
neutrons, electrons, and da-doo-ron-rons. |
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5.24.2000/07:55 |
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I have a friend who is dog-sitting two
dogs, one of whom is blind, and was glad to find the Blind Dogs site to pass along to her.
She has also told me that one of the dogs bites its nails, but I'm not sure whether it is the blind one. |
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5.23.2000/21:20 |
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I was trying to think what it was that was tickling at my brain looking at the new design of
Salon.com, and I realized that the page is too wide to fit in a 640x480 window. I can't remember the
old design enough to know whether this is a policy change, but certainly the new design, with its severe boxiness over the old floatiness, makes it more
punitively obvious that it is aimed at an 800-pixel or wider display. Even sites desiring mass markets, it seems, are abandoning the folk
with the little screens. Or do they figure, the poor sods don't ever get anything done that they can see very well anyway, why should we
be any different? It's less than 10 percent of users! Let 'em eat columns. |
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5.23.2000/13:05 |
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You know that smarty-pants column
in Parade magazine by Marilyn vos Savant, the alleged benchmarkess of IQ? Here, finally, is a reason to
read it: Herb Weiner's Marilyn is Wrong! web site. |
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| 5.23.2000/08:55 |
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| So many weblogs...and am I glad. I keep
finding more blogs that I really like. I've made several additions to my long list. Maybe I should get
out more. |
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5.23.2000/08:20 |
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My sister Laura, who works as the clinical director of a
raptor rehabilitation center that hosts a Falcon.cam,
sent this today. |
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5.22.2000/17:35 |
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I sort of get it, but then I maybe don't really get it.
Is theTrue Mirror something you would want? Do you really want to see yourself as
others see you, particularly the part in your hair? And if so, don't you have a camera? |
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5.22.2000/17:30 |
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By way of
Coca-coma, a standout item in
a deeply articulated collection. |
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5.22.2000/08:15 |
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Interesting
article in the Chicago
Tribune about publications embedding information on their printed pages that readers can scan with a bar-code reader,
or hold before a digicam, to instantly link to web pages with related content. More trouble than clicking, but certainly
a lot less trouble than keying in a deep-in-the-site URL. |
| 5.21.2000/22:35 |
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| A couple of summers ago, while
motoring through southern Illinois and Indiana, I passed through a hatch-out of
cicadas so loud that
my friend and I first noticed their combined songs over the sound of the car radio, air conditioning, tire and road noise,
etc. We stopped the car and rolled down the windows, and were astounded at the magnitude of their chorus, and
at the sight of the extraordinary number of these busy creatures. There are many different broods of
periodical cicadas throughout the eastern U.S.; when they hatch, usually in cycles of thirteen or seventeen years, there
can be as many as 1.5 million cicadas in an acre of forested land. They're fairly harmless, although an Illinois
friend I saw that fall complained of the task of sweeping up the remnants of thousands and thousands of cicadas from
his yard and sidewalk. Brood VI, as
cicadameisters label it, is due to hatch out sometime around...gosh, probably fairly soon,
if not already!...along the I-85 corridor between Atlanta and Charlotte. Enjoy! |
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5.21.2000/22:10 |
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Some rather detailed information about
vampires. |
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5.21.2000/16:30 |
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Audio and a picture: the
charming moan of the Atlantic Puffin. If this interests you,
check out 26 questions about Puffins. |
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5.20.2000/16:50 |
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Four or five years ago, I took a ten-day road trip
from Louisiana to northern Ohio and back. Each night I would read for a couple of hours while my artist traveling companion organized
and filled in sketches he had done on the road. What I read was Anna Karenina. I loved it.
Here is a version you can read if,
instead of a ten-day trip to Ohio, you're only going to the corner store for a loaf of bread. |
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| 5.20.2000/16:40 |
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| Ferret first aid. |
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