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Back to: Poor Clio; or, back to: Past history
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| 5.5.2001/10:06 |
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| Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.: www.bulletholestore.com. |
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5.5.2001/09:37 |
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Dingos in the news. |
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5.4.2001/10:00 |
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Think you know your chocolate bars? How many of these cross-sections can you identify? (Thanks to Elise for finding this one!) |
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5.4.2001/09:58 |
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Great giraffe site, via Eric. Meanwhile, I look at these giraffes almost every day. |
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| 5.4.2001/09:51 |
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| In the U.K., Friday begins National Pet Week. |
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5.3.2001/08:40 |
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The Bathrooms of Madison County. |
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| 5.3.2001/08:36 |
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| Travel the Oregon coast... in 1940! |
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5.3.2001/08:22 |
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Here's some good news! Now we can kill and maim without hurting the environment so much! |
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5.3.2001/08:14 |
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But if bottled water costs so much more,
how could it possibly not be better? |
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5.3.2001/08:10 |
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Toronto, the other New York City. |
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| 5.2.2001/08:11 |
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| Progress! |
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5.1.2001/08:27 |
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Not dead ... yet. |
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5.1.2001/08:23 |
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Wandering moose. |
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4.30.2001/09:33 |
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Cuba, health care paradise, if you're not Cuban. |
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| 4.29.2001/09:45 |
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| Great moments in cultural history. |
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4.29.2001/08:56 |
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Ancient metropolis. |
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4.25.2001/18:47 |
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I am having surgery in the morning to remove a bone spur from my left shoulder, so when I next post to Poor Clio may be largely a function of when the demerol haze wears off... |
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4.25.2001/16:56 |
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Today I was treated to a tour of the new chapel just built at the Episcopal School of Acadiana, a prep school a few miles from me. The room is nicely fenestrated so as to take advantage of the lovely old oaks on the campus, but my favorite sensitive-to-the-local-natural-environment touch was the inclusion of an armadillo at the feet of St. Francis. |
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4.25.2001/07:51 |
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What a glorious day this is, for an article about geckos in the Dallas News settles a long-standing debate between Susan and me about why we're seeing so many more of these curious lizards. She had contended that the ones we were seeing were escapees from pet purchases; I had thought that they were just expanding their range. I must admit, though, that I was only partially right; I had attributed the expansion of their territory to our recent drought years, but rather than relying on aberrant clouds of dust they have come on trucks and trains and ships and such. |
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4.24.2001/18:45 |
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Had a nice e-mail exchange with John over at Austinspace, my webloggers neighbor of the moment, about my pseudo- panorama of Enron Field. He has done quite a few nice pans, himself, of ballparks and other scenes. In the course of our communication, I let him know about the success I have been having with lithium batteries, which are a drink in the desert for digital camera users. I wish I could tell you how much longer they last than regular alkalines, but since the pair I put in the camera in Tuscon in September are still working, I don't know what it takes to finally drain them. Remarkable, truly remarkable. |
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4.24.2001/10:03 |
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When we went to Houston last weekend, we slid down from I-10 to take the coastal road for a while, crossing by toll ferry at Cameron, complete with such maritime appointments as seagulls. |
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| 4.24.2001/09:22 |
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| Though we note that there may not be much added to this site before
AD 2007, it seems pretty useful for now. |
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4.23.2001/17:53 |
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Had my first visit to the Houston Astros' new Enron Field yesterday ('Stros won a good squeaker, 4-3, on Wade Miller's 13-strikeout pitching and some timely hitting, including a homer by Jeff Bagwell and an eighth-inning tie-breaker sac fly by Richard Hidalgo). It was an ideal double-header day for me. Prior to the ball game, I went to the Houston Grand Opera's Don Carlo, with homeruns by Samuel Ramey, Patricia Racette, Ramon Vargas, Béatrice Uria-Monzon, and a pinch-hit clout by Peter Coleman-Wright, stepping to the plate for the injured Dwayne Croft. |
| 4.21.2001/08:45 |
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| Now you can find out what "gunnoo" means. |
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4.21.2001/08:41 |
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I would suspect that like many magic spells, this works best if you really, really believe... |
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4.21.2001/08:37 |
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Oh, cute! |
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4.20.2001/20:44 |
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Hamster Tales. Not for anyone whose laugh muscles are weak. |
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4.20.2001/20:40 |
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For some travelers, this really might be enough French for most situations... |
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4.20.2001/20:10 |
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When a quartet of us wound up getting together for lunch today at Cafe Des Amis in Breaux Bridge, about 25 miles away, Susan somehow managed to ride both ways in our friend Randy Fertel's new BMW Z-8 roadster. Top down, perfect weather, hair-a-flyin'. Perhaps you'll agree that it seems to suit her... |
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4.20.2001/09:21 |
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Our friend Steve Marcel sent me this picture that he took last night
of a gas well fire a couple of miles outside of New Iberia. His wife Kay told me that the traffic to the blowout site was something on the order of mall traffic at Christmas. |
