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Back to: Poor Clio; or, back to: Past history
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6.23.2000/17:20 |
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The
Chicago Tribune, which frequently has good travel features about
places in Midwest, has this story about
Columbus, IN, where there is an extraordinary collection of architecture, particularly from the second half of the 20th
century. The modern stage-setter, though, is Eliel Saarinen's 1942
First Christian Church, the architectural shrine at which I have worshipped on those occasions when I have been fortunate enough
to visit Columbus. |
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6.23.2000/10:35 |
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Twinkie science. |
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"The aardvark has a peculiar appearance..." |
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6.23.2000/10:20 |
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Political junkies can
go international with Elections Around the World, which also
includes an e-mail alert to new vote results. A pop-up window gives the latest results, including commentary like this, about the
spring tallies in Peru: "Alberto Fujimoro's personalist Peru 2000 wins the fraudulous parliamentary and presential elections." |
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6.22.2000/18:40 |
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Watch where
you step. |
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6.22.2000/18:30 |
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Useless, and not afraid to say so. |
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6.22.2000/18:25 |
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One of my mostest favoritest
books ever, Zulieka Dobson, free for the taking.
Plus, others. |
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| 6.22.2000/09:35 |
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| If there is
water on Mars, maybe the cure for
the Louisiana coastal drought may not be too far behind. |
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6.22.2000/09:00 |
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Here it is, full summer,
very hot and oppressive here in south Louisiana, and I find myself looking at a site dedicated to
wood-fueled heat. Come to think of it, I love on days like this to
sit in the hammock under the oaks, which gives me, I guess you could say, wood-fueled cooling. |
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6.21.2000/17:50 |
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I have just started in the Jacques Barzun's new
From Dawn to Decadence - 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to Present, and
it is a great read. I am a slow reader, and this kind of book can take me the rest of the summer. Making it a good summer. In other bookish matters,
I happened to mention to a friend the other day that I had started reading Balzac, to which she quickly replied, "Why?" |
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6.21.2000/10:20 |
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This looks to me like a
one-person society. |
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6.21.2000/10:15 |
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A compendium of
online dictionaries that includes slang, medical, other languages, etc. |
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6.21.2000/10:10 |
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How aspirin works. Get me one, quick. |
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6.20.2000/18:15 |
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I, uh, tried
this reverse text thing, I really did, I tried,
but I just...just didn't get it. |
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6.20.2000/09:05 |
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Here's one more reason to run out and buy
a DVD player: DVD Easter Eggs. All that capacity, it seems, invites hidden
bonuses. |
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6.20.2000/09:00 |
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Mollusk Mania. |
| 6.19.2000/16:40 |
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| I've been thinking lately about high-tech/low-tech
mixes, especially in the sense that they work (or have to be made to work) in the place of high-tech alone. One example:
I keep a bunch of clipped-together index cards next to my keyboard with myriad user names and passwords. Another: I talked
to a woman last week whose business has a web site, e-mail, fax, voice mail, etc...but the most dependable way to get her to see something
that needs her attention is to impale it on a nail she passes on the stairs a bunch of times
each day. |
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6.19.2000/08:20 |
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Mr. Coffee Nerves, just one of
several potential adoptees at the Orphanage of Cast-Off Mascots. |
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6.18.2000/15:50 |
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I downloaded the client
software at Weatherbug, and now I see the current temperature in my
system tray; a click on the temperature takes me to a pop-up with current conditions, etc., and link buttons for radar, multi-day forecasts, etc., somehow
tied in with a local TV station. Free, though there are ads on the pop-up. It would present
some kind of graphic under the temperature readout if there were weather alerts in my area, though I haven't
had it long enough to see that yet. By the way, it is that hot here. |
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6.18.2000/11:55 |
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Automobile images and American identities,
portrayed in the Rear View Mirror exhibit from
UCR/California Museum of Photography, which has other interesting material
on line as well. |
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6.18.2000/11:50 |
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"An average person, no matter what
height he or she is, has a potential to be 2 - 4 inches taller," says the Grow Taller web site, "sometimes even more." |
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| 6.17.2000/10:00 |
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| Fascinating collection of
illustrated letters from
artists, architects and others, arranged both by the sender and the recipient. Check out the sketch in the letter
from painter William Cushing Loring to his
parents, about his life in Paris. |
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6.17.2000/08:55 |
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This thick iron band that I am
tightening around my head is definitely not a good idea. It's killing me. Or maybe it's my sinuses. I'm going out
for something for breakfast so I can stomach a Claritin. |
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