Archive for April, 2006
links for 2006-04-27
Magician David Copperfield robbed after show at Kravis Center. Copperfield (real name David Kotkin) pulled a sleight of hand trick on the robbers, showing them empty pockets, even though he had a cellphone, wallet, and passport in them. (tags: news magic) Filipino table etiquette punished at local school. Filipino child punished for using a spoon [...]
links for 2006-04-26
The New Homemaker: Cleaning with Baking Soda (tags: home science) Dead Yet Living: A Defense of Christian Satire, Part 2: Why Is Christian Satire so Rare? (tags: faith philosophy culture) Full-time freelancing: 10 more things in 360 days. More tips on freelancing from Cameron Moll. (tags: business) Epcot Dive Quest. For $140 you can go [...]
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(IceCream.jpg, uploaded by brownpau.) Lining up for free ice cream at Ben and Jerry’s in Union Station now. I’m getting Phish Food. Update: Phish Food was out, and wow, you know demand is high when vanilla has run out. I got Chunky Monkey instead.
links for 2006-04-25
Newsweek: The Long and Grinding Road. The rat race is turning into a marathon. Inside the lives of ‘extreme commuters.’ (tags: transportation culture) How To Take A Myspace Photo Part II (tags: fun photography) Dead Yet Living: A Defense of Satire, Part 1 (tags: faith philosophy culture) firstRSS. Easy RSS aggregator plugin for WordPress. (tags: [...]
SMART-1 to be Crashed
Crash. Tiny SMART-1, ESA’s first lunar probe (also a compact spacecraft technology test bed), has been in lunar orbit since November 2004. Following the success of its primary and secondary missions, ESA now plans to crash SMART-1 into the moon, with a hard landing on the near side which may be visible from Earth. More [...]
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(Corner.jpg, uploaded by brownpau.) My sitting corner, with a folding lawn chair cushioned by a comforter, in the shade of a norfolk island pine. Just testing mobile posting. I’m limited to eight character filename-based titles on the Nokia 6600, and posting by API does not assign a default category. Any tips on that?
links for 2006-04-23
Antifaust: How to Make Your Own Lost Numbers T-shirt. Also, Mic’s back! (tags: shirt tv fun) Eye Level: Meet the Press. Links on the renovation and restoration of the old Patent Office Building. (tags: dc architecture history art)
links for 2006-04-22
TrekWeb.com – J.J. Abrams to Produce and Direct Star Trek XI. Producer of Alias and Lost to do a Trek movie about Kirk and Spock in their young Academy days. (tags: startrek) DC Arts Jobs: Applying for Government Affliated Jobs (tags: government jobs dc art) Orangutwang. Drag the stretchy primate’s paws from ring to ring [...]
Back From Retreat
The theme of the retreat at Camp Fraser was “community,” so the young adults of First Baptist and Calvary Baptist DC spent Friday night and Saturday discussing the Church as Body of Christ and fellowship of believers united by common belief towards common goals. Saturday morning, I got up at 6am for a damp hike [...]
Off to a Weekend Retreat
My sleeping bag and I are off to a retreat at Camp Fraser for the weekend. Here are the photos from last year’s retreat, when I saw a beaver, a fox, and a snake during an early morning hike and got to try a zipline for the first time. Hopefully the rain being forecast will [...]