Archive for June, 2004

Bananaphone

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Ring > ring > ring > ring > AAAGGHHH PLEASE MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP. (Caveat: blood and swearing in the last one.)

Theodore Roosevelt Island

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That was a nice Saturday: bright, sunny, and breezy. Perfect day to explore Theodore Roosevelt Island. For un-automobile’d walking folk such as I, the easiest way to the island is via a bridge near the Rosslyn Metro. From the Metro exit (after turning around from the escalators), cross the street and the little plaza and [...]

Still Life + Deer

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Amy’s got a great run of visual output going, including three recent still life paintings: plums and a glass, an orange, a feather, and a frog ornament, and two onions; plus, she got a pair of excellent photos of a daring doe that wandered into her grandmother’s front yard last week before I chased it [...]

IE

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In this day and age, it bears repeating over and over again: don’t use Internet Explorer, don’t use Internet Explorer, don’t use Internet Explorer. Never mind that it’s what came with your Windows PC; there are far better browsers. Get Mozilla, get Firefox, get Opera, but please, for your own good, for the good of [...]

Gently Down the Stream

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Last weekend’s highlight was a New Jersey Pine Barrens canoe trip with Amy and her church group, via Pine Barrens Canoe Rental. The canoe rental place itself seemed an anachronism: a building and a shed nestled in a clearing of cranberry bogs, nowhere near any rivers. That’s where we signed waivers and paid the rental [...]

Aviatory Minutiae

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And yes, I did write five whole paragraphs about a 35 minute plane ride. Being an aviation and space buff, I simply enjoy air travel that darn much. I’d write at length about more stuff, but I’m utterly swamped with various tasks and chores at work and at home. More soon. (Oh, and go to [...]

Flyi

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So I flew Independence Air to New Jersey last weekend. As I mentioned earlier, the discounted new-member tickets turned out far cheaper than the train ride, and I was eager to try out this new airline which had been so actively marketed in the DC metro area. (Indy Air is actually ACA, a “feeder” airline [...]

Amykow

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Amykow.com is now online, and will be home to Amy, my dearest luv. Being more of the visually oriented sort, she’ll be using the site to publish her unique ocular genius in the form of photos and paintings, each one a veritable masterpiece of color, composition, and style. Why “Amykow?” You’ll have to ask her [...]