News
06.30.2003/09:51
Interesting look at what factors can affect (and what issues can be affected by) the manner in which an urban area's Metropolitan Statistical Area (in this case, Indianapolis) is defined.

News
06.29.2003/23:48
Gosh, it looks like Tropical Storm Bill may be about to be something to contend with in these parts!

Sites
06.28.2003/20:58
Sword swallowing resources. (via Blort)

News
06.28.2003/08:38
Susan Hester Edmunds in the news.

Sites
06.27.2003/19:42
Seven photos of an important local event in Seaham, UK.

Sites
06.27.2003/13:34
We may just add a visit to the Very Large Array to our itinerary on our next trip to the Southwest!

Sites
06.27.2003/09:23
Well, you can take the written and driving tests, and bring in your birth certificate, etc., like I did, or you can just order here. But carefully read the disclaimer first, and as to whether you are contemplating anything illegal, well, that's your business, isn't it?

News
06.27.2003/09:11
How to brew the perfect cup of tea. At least, according to a bunch of Brits.

News
06.26.2003/20:20
Baby-attacking ferret in the news.

Photos
06.26.2003/11:37
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Turner Field
I had my first trip to Turner Field in Atlanta on Tuesday, June 24; Javy Lopez crushed two line-drive homers to left, and Andruw Jones sent a homer to deep center, 408 feet. I got the tickets on eBay, and they were great, about twenty rows behind first base. The Braves won over the Phillies, 5-3.

Photos
06.26.2003/11:36
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Legacy of Impressions
What, precisely, might we look for if we wished to follow this legacy of impressions?

Photos
06.26.2003/11:32
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Silver Tower
The Madison County Courthouse in downtown Madison, FL is given an odd look by the water tank located next to it on the courthouse square.

Photos
06.26.2003/11:31
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Have A Coke
Downtown Madison, FL.

Photos
06.26.2003/11:31
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Why, Indeed?
Downtown Madison, FL.

News
06.26.2003/08:55
A previously unobserved form of lightning.

News
06.25.2003/22:00
If you go to Wimbledon (or just watch it on TV), keep your eye out for the advertising pigeons.

Sites
06.25.2003/21:44
This is the weekend of the Central Park BioBlitz, when all manner of biota will be chronicled. (via Gothamist)

Sites
06.25.2003/08:13
Great use of Flash in this online version of exhibit of Degas works dealing with dance.

Sites
06.25.2003/08:07
While I hadn't been thinking lately that I desperately need a new computer, the new Power Mac G5 looks awfully attractive.

News
06.25.2003/08:02
Water-logged cliffs of eastern Long Island, soaked by the region's wet, rainy spring, are collapsing here and there.

News
06.25.2003/00:11
Old time religion.

News
06.24.2003/14:28
Badger skull in the news.

Sites
06.24.2003/11:15
Information for anyone wanting to have ants as pets.

Drivel
06.22.2003/21:28
The Missing WMD...
Revisionist History:
"What didn't you know and when didn't you know it?"

News
06.22.2003/21:12
Save the Minster library.

Sites
06.21.2003/17:00
Simple and well-presented site that gives you the opportunity to look thoroughly through an Ethiopian Manuscript Prayer Book.

News
06.20.2003/20:58
A hiking trail across the state of New Jersey.

News
06.20.2003/15:47
Those poor New Yorkers are suffering for hardly having had any of the buoying effect of springtime. Apparently, when Susan and I spent a few days in NYC in early May, we were there at just the right time.

Sites
06.20.2003/15:40
Australian Ants Online.

News
06.19.2003/22:23
"But whether he existed or not, Robin would never have worn tights as depicted by Errol Flyn in the 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood."

Drivel
06.19.2003/09:01
Update on the lightning strike: also out, two (count 'em, two!) printers, portable phone, and about half of the alarm system. But since you don't know which contact points are fritzed, don't risk trying to climb in any of my windows...

Sites
06.19.2003/08:59
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept., special citation for being so in two meanings:
wormdigest.org

News
06.19.2003/08:43
For the first time since I was a little kid, my town has bus service again.

Sites
06.18.2003/23:01
Is it a roly-poly? A doodle bug? A pill bug? Or even something else?

News
06.18.2003/22:42
"Emergency work has been carried out to shore up the caverns in the short term, with the interests of both the bats and local residents taken into account. "

News
06.17.2003/21:42
Corrections officers and wardens at Rikers Island charged with teaming up to steal valuable Dali sketch from jail lobby.

Sites
06.17.2003/21:10
Ghosts in trailers. Not movie trailers, but rather mobile homes.

News
06.17.2003/17:50
A genuine Harry Potter adventure!

News
06.17.2003/16:45
First time I hear about this, and it certainly is the sort of thing a person thinks, "I'd like to go see that someday."

Drivel
06.17.2003/16:38
Lightning Strikes
I got home from lunch yesterday, and there had been a terrible storm with lightning strikes in our neighborhood. My phone line is out and with it DSL, so no internet connection (this is being posted on Susan's computer at work, which she kindly offered me as an emergency e-mail reading station).

The air-conditioner went out, too, although that has a temporary fix thanks to our clever repairman.

I had to spend the entire day up to now waiting for a telephone repair person who hadn't shown up by the time Susan came home and could take a shift. Oh, what fragile lives we lead.

On the other hand, I got to cook Susan some more of that tomato soup she likes, read a lot, watched a movie on cable and scattered parts of three different episodes of Twilight Zone. A day off!

Drivel
06.17.2003/16:35
You can probably put less oil and sugar and more garlic than the recipe calls for. If the recipe is on yellowed paper, that goes double.

News
06.16.2003/10:44
Skillet tossing contest.

Sites
06.16.2003/10:40
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
radiolovers.com

News
06.15.2003/15:50
Great photo of an osprey with freshly-caught fish.

Drivel
06.14.2003/22:33
Citations
In three plus years of Poor Clio, I've never used an outside service for posting entries. For a time I hand-coded everything in a design I created at least half with the idea that it couldn't be easily done with automated posting, and would render differently under different screen resolutions. But then I created the present design, which has a proprietary ColdFusion-driven web interface for me to post with, and allows me to send an individual item into one of four columns (the far left column is still all hand-coded). This weekend I added another feature to mimic one found on some automated (and some proprietary) weblogs: a citable link for each entry, leading to a page like this. The citation link is just to the right of the date and time stamp.

All this may serve to prove is that I'm too hard-headed to just take advantage of existing tools. Or too cheap. But I enjoy thinking through and executing the programming ideas, and as Susan says, I'm not hurting anybody.

So it's easy to have a citation now to an item in Poor Clio. I suspect that most of those made will be made by me, here.

Sites
06.14.2003/22:19
Some very nice flower photos at Sheila's web site.

News
06.14.2003/19:46
Microsoft will not further develop IE for Mac. I love using Safari!

News
06.13.2003/16:11
Mormon Crickets in the news. And what to do about them.

Sites
06.13.2003/11:03
Hey kids! Your science fair project on volcanoes is almost done!

Sites
06.13.2003/10:45
What an incredible collection of old and (often deservedly) obscure horror movies. I could shop here for ages. But where are the promised rawhide dog bones at wholesale prices? Ah, yes, here they are!

Sites
06.13.2003/10:36
Save the Rottweilers.

News
06.13.2003/10:35
Who???

News
06.12.2003/23:33
"The best part, according to neighbor Becky Wright, is that the ape facility will supplant methamphetamine junkies and dirt-bike racers."

Sites
06.12.2003/10:05
Here are several guys who know a lot about beetles.

Drivel
06.12.2003/09:57
Good name for a weblog, or idea for a musical: Prairie Dogs from Mars.

News
06.12.2003/09:55
"Mars tends to eat spacecraft. It's a graveyard."

News
06.12.2003/09:52
My one-time partner in The Times of Acadiana is going back into the news business in Lafayette.

News
06.12.2003/09:50
Last night we watched our TV in amazement as the Houston Astros used a record six pitchers to no-hit the Yankees.

Sites
06.11.2003/04:23
"I LIKE Noise..."

Sites
06.11.2003/04:20
BugWatch.

News
06.11.2003/04:17
So what, nobody goes downtown because there's too much traffic?

Sites
06.10.2003/07:25
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
protectingmasks.com

News
06.10.2003/07:22
Deadly riptides.

Drivel
06.9.2003/09:44
Mine! Mine!
Susan and I went yesterday to see Finding Nemo, skewing the average age dramatically when we stepped into the darkened cinema. Though it was predictable and as cutesy as you would expect for the age of its audience, it was well made, imaginiative and enjoyable for us 50-plus folk. We especially liked the characterization of the seagulls, honking "Mine! Mine!" at the site of a possible bit of food.

And here's the kind of crowd a Pixar movie draws: About 20 minutes into the show, the projector ground to a halt and an usher came to the front of the house to announce that a Dodge Caravan parked outside the cinema had been left with a door open (you can picture the excited arrival of the vanload of tykes spilling toward the ticket line, etc.). About half a dozen little groups stirred in various parts of the theater, and there were several shouts to ask the color of the van. Burgundy. Still not settled... the usher had to say the license plate to single out the owner.

Sites
06.9.2003/09:38
Here it is, the new baseball team name for Montgomery, AL: the Montgomery Biscuits. Do you like the name? It seems that not everyone in Montogmery likes it as much as I do. And they don't want the t-shirts.

Sites
06.9.2003/09:11
Mongolian Culture.

News
06.9.2003/09:00
Giant cucumber in the news.

News
06.8.2003/21:10
It's not advisable in the first place to anger a woman who wears size 12 shoes.

News
06.7.2003/23:54
For 24 years, there has been a miles-long race in Wales where men try to outrun horses. No man has ever won. But those odds didn't keep 378 men from trying it this year.

News
06.7.2003/23:31
In Maine, the world's largest scale model of the solar system is miles and miles wide. What a cool community project! (found via Fark)

Photos
06.7.2003/11:38
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Department Of
Iberia Parish Courthouse Annex, Providence Street entrance.

Sites
06.7.2003/11:26
Candle trends.

News
06.7.2003/11:18
The lively game of pretend killing. (Free registration may be required at this site.)

News
06.7.2003/11:15
Plant sale in Colorado may be cooled off by snowfall.

Drivel
06.6.2003/19:37
We got our reservation confirmation for our visit to The Lighting Field today. We'll be there for the full moon in September.

News
06.6.2003/11:10
It's nice to see a family coming together to be involved with one child's school issues.

Sites
06.6.2003/11:03
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
shreddedrubber.net

Sites
06.4.2003/20:00
A source for continual infromation about Mars.

Sites
06.4.2003/19:33
Augie Doggie & Doggie Daddy. And here are some stills. And, Augie Doggie for sale.

Sites
06.4.2003/08:37
"Hi, I'm black!" is an engagingly readable weblog; I've added it to my list of links at left.

News
06.4.2003/08:30
Working the night shift may be hazardous to your health.

News
06.3.2003/16:20
Some good news for your innards.

Drivel
06.3.2003/08:11
Drought and Nostalgia
Yesterday afternoon and last night it rained here, generously. We have once again slipped into a period of drought, and such a sustained rainfall is blessedly relieving.

My memory of growing up here in coastal Louisiana is of lush vegetation and afternoon rain showers even on the so-called dry days, and the drought years we have experienced in the last decade seem as much about lost youth as cracked earth; when we get rain like yesterday's, it's not only the quenching of my live oaks' desires that soothes me, it's likely also the comfort of their being some whiff of a return to the warm, wet womb.

News
06.2.2003/22:08
Among methods used to try to prevent illegal copying of Finding Nemo: security guards scan audience with night-vision goggles hoping to detect the glow of digital cameras.

Sites
06.2.2003/17:13
"Boo_Yah! I whooped you in dat basketball game!" And similar otherwise secret lingo from the mysterious world of teens, revealed.

Sites
06.2.2003/17:06
Frog dissection. Online.

News
06.2.2003/08:26
The New York Philharmonic is going to be moving back to Carnegie Hall. I for one will be likely to attend their concerts more often when I'm in NY.

Sites
06.1.2003/20:23
While somehow omitting mention of my high school graduation, this is nevertheless a thoughtful roundup of the events of the fabled year 1969.

News
06.1.2003/19:51
The damming of the Yangtze at Three Gorges has begun.

News
06.1.2003/15:56
Tax cut. Except for about 8 million, mostly low-income taxpayers.

News
05.31.2003/17:46
A lost art. Or two.

Photos
05.31.2003/10:19
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Wiggins
Looking west up Pine Ave. in downtown Wiggins, MS, where Susan and I had extraordinarily good catfish at Sister's Kuntry Cafe (on the south side of the street, on the left in reference to this photo).

Photos
05.31.2003/10:17
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Old Centenary
In Jackson, LA, one of the three large buildings that once comprised the campus of Centenary College (in more populous Shreveport since 1908) still stands. The spacious grounds, as well as a faculty residence, are also available for touring.

Photos
05.31.2003/10:15
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The Little Room
At the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, MS, the private sanctuary that the nature-driven artist once kept in his cottage studio is preserved and open to the public.

News
05.30.2003/08:41
Tracking down and punishing sprinkler violators.

News
05.29.2003/09:43
They unpaved the parking lot and put up a paradise.

Sites
05.29.2003/09:40
Infrared Zoo.

Sites
05.28.2003/06:32
Welcome to the Retrofuture.

News
05.28.2003/06:29
Swimming pool llama in the news.

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