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6.20.2001/06:26 |
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Like taking candy from a baby. |
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| 6.19.2001/08:39 |
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| Eclipse! |
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6.19.2001/08:10 |
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John Dvorak at his brilliant best, on Technology Fatigue Syndrome. |
| 6.19.2001/08:04 |
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| Deadly spiders in the news. |
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6.18.2001/15:12 |
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Komodo Kam. |
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6.18.2001/08:03 |
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The other white meat atrocities. |
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6.17.2001/12:09 |
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Here's another photo from this morning (see below at entry timed at 09:39), of a night heron in flight. |
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6.17.2001/10:46 |
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I found this maverick mosaic the other day on a nearby street. |
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6.17.2001/09:39 |
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Though they are harvested in the wild, particularly in the Atchafalaya Basin, many of the crawfish gathered in Louisiana are bred in programmatic aquaculture. About this time of year, the ponds are being drained as the hot weather sends the crustaceans burrowing into the mud, and this presents a great opportunity for bird-watchers. We went to a pond this morning, seeing egrets and the occasional night heron. It was also a chance for Susan to try out the new Canon 10 x 30 image stabilizer binoculars I had bought her, and I'm happy to report that she loves these binoculars. They truly are amazing! |
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6.16.2001/08:28 |
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Wow! |
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6.16.2001/08:25 |
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You might die of cancer, but at least you won't have a cold. |
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| Woman bites dog, that's news. |
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6.15.2001/09:00 |
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Save the ferrets! |
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6.15.2001/08:52 |
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Nice photo! |
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6.15.2001/08:49 |
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The sweet rewards of volunteering. |
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6.14.2001/07:50 |
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All that recent rain has made our caladiums zoom quickly to a huge size. |
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6.14.2001/07:42 |
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I suppose you could even use this to check one of those sites that gives in-trip reports on the progess of your flight. |
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6.13.2001/07:06 |
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How do we think it might affect this diet if one were to snack on, say,
the occasional passing lizard? |
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| 6.13.2001/06:57 |
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| British... murder? ... mystery. |
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6.12.2001/07:55 |
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Meet the Komodo Dragon! Where? Here is where you might find one... |
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6.12.2001/07:48 |
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Save the parrots. |
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6.11.2001/07:18 |
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Ospreys in the news. |
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6.11.2001/07:15 |
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Dead heat! |
| 6.10.2001/20:21 |
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| Lizard bites editor, now that's news. |
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6.9.2001/21:26 |
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New Iberia's Bayou Teche, covering a portion of Front Street. Taken at about 6:30 this evening. More rain expected each of the next four days. |
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6.9.2001/09:50 |
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The stream of flowing water depicted at left is Allen Sreet, where we live, as the rains continue to inundate south Louisiana. We're lucky to live in a part of town with some of the higher elevation, which is why, I suppose, we can still see our back patio through the water that covers it. Some hard downpours, but mostly long, slow drippy rain as in this 2.5MB AVI movie. |
| 6.9.2001/07:57 |
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| Seals in the news. |
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6.8.2001/09:48 |
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For a while yesterday evening, we wondered if our group might in fact not make it back to Lafayette from New Orleans. Just east of Baton Rouge, the westbound traffic was reduced to one slim strand of shoulder on I-10, and the eastbound lanes were completely underwater. We've been having record rains all week, the shaggy leftovers of that tropical storm I think of as Suddenly Allison. I'd rather this than drought. |
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6.8.2001/09:39 |
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Yesterday I was in New Orleans, with a committee of people looking at various theater spaces for the purpose of helping get the design process started for a new, small theater in Lafayette. One of the spaces we visited was the lecture auditorium at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and it was remarked as we left the complex, which is still fronted by the original neo-classic building, that some of the names inscribed above the cornices had gone out of museum favor·much the same as those magnificent busts in ornate 19th century European opera houses commemorate currently neglected composers like, say, Spontini. Later, we went to lunch at House of Blues, where we noted in the dining room cieling this tribute to Fats Domino and others, and of course couldn't help but wonder how the fame of this pantheon of artistic greats might last. |
| 6.6.2001/09:09 |
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| You'll never get anything if you don't ask. |
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