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Monthly Archives: February 2006

Weekend With Amy Feb 2006

Monday, February 27, 2006

Amy came to DC for the weekend. We watched Galaxy Quest and LOST reruns, checked out North Pacific Native Art, viewed Da Vinci’s De Benci, and browsed the protomodern anachronisms of Dada. Also, at church, our anthem was Carolyn Jennings’s “Climb to the Top of the Highest Mountain,” and after worship, Amy and I went [...]

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EDSA 1986 History

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Ah, but enough of dwelling on the grim and cynical realities of Philippine politics! As they say, it’s the study of history which keeps us from repeating the mistakes of the past, so to history we go! Take a look at this wonderfully detailed timeline of the 1986 EDSA Revolution, featuring hour by hour updates [...]

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EDSA 1986 + 20

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Today (more like yesterday, given the time difference) in the Philippines, it is the 20th anniversary of the ousting of dictator Ferdinand Marcos by the EDSA People Power Revolution. Sadly, the celebration has been marred, not only by the attempts at a military coup, not only by the draconian measures taken by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo [...]

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Google Pages

Friday, February 24, 2006

LOOKIT IS TEH BROWNPAU GOOGLE PAGE! So Google Pages gives you 100MB of free HTML and image hosting, a WYSIWYG editor with limited HTML coding capability and themability, and a googlepages.com subdomain. The markup produced isn’t so great, though: lots of crufty tag soup with deprecated elements and invalid code. For me, it’s just part [...]

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Photo Retrospective: Mantis Shrimp

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

(Mantis Shrimp, uploaded by brownpau.)
My brother took this with a Canon Powershot A70 on our diving trip to Verde Island in December 2004. It’s a mantis shrimp, or a stomatopod. Here’s what stomatopods look like in their larval stage. More just-uploaded photos of Christmas 2004 to New Year 2005: JFK-DXB-MNL, Christmas in Manila 2004, Virra [...]

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A Few Lost Notes

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Okay, okay, LOST fans, here are some notes on recent episodes, since I haven’t written about it for a while. Some spoilers follow, so those of you who haven’t been watching the second season should stop reading right here.
The Hunting Party
Jack, you didn’t ask “Zeke” enough questions. That’s all. Oh, and Kate messed up, thus [...]

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Photo Retrospective: Capitol at Twilight

Monday, February 20, 2006

(capitol-at-twilight, uploaded by brownpau.)
Walking by the Capitol on my way home after a long day in November of 2004. See full size panorama here.

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Photo Retrospective: Wessels

Saturday, February 18, 2006

(Set1294_01, uploaded by brownpau.)
They are not nuclear wessels, but wessels nonetheless. Taken June 2004 with a very fuzzy-lensed Zire 71.
Update: I added this photo to the Flickr Star Trek Group Pool, but the admin removed it. Bunch of humorless Vulcans.

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Photo on Capitalweather

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Capital Weather shows one of my Flickr photos from the 12 Feb 2006 snowstorm, Washington Monument Tree Panorama:

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Leyte Landslides

Friday, February 17, 2006

Leyte landslides bury village. As many as 3,000 may have been killed. This keeps happening. With large swaths of the island deforested by unchecked logging, populated areas are prone to flash flooding and mudslides caused by loose earth and disrupted watersheds. Every time it happens, the usual things happen, fingers pointed, blame assigned, promises made: [...]

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