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Monthly Archives: August 2006

We Will Rock You

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Rocking chairs at Bartholdi Park. See more photos from last weekend here, including more photos of the proposal and ring.

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Billy Goat Trail

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

On Saturday, Amy and I joined the Summer Hiking Smallgroup at church to trek up to the Billy Goat Trail (section A), just off the C&O Canal Towpath near Great Falls. The trail is a definite challenge for the beginning hiker: very rough, with lots of clambering over fissured rocks and even a bit of [...]

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Yes

Monday, August 28, 2006

Funny how the big things always seem to happen in August. She said yes.

Proposal venue was the Mary Livingston Ripley Garden beside the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building: teeming with flowers, picturesque and historic, with nice little winding nooks for privacy. Lovely place. We’re engaged!

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Small Change

Saturday, August 26, 2006

I just made a small — but significant — change to the site. Can you see it? If you think you know what it is, leave a hint in the comments, but don’t just blurt it out. More details and updates tomorrow; I’ve had a loo-oong two days and really need to sleep. In the [...]

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Air and Space Museum Demotes Pluto

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Good news from the Pluto Demotion Defense Front! Amy and I were at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum today to watch Superman Returns in the IMAX Theater, and we found that the “Exploring the Planets” exhibit had removed Pluto from the listing of major planets, and added a notice to that effect in the [...]

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Demote Pluto

Monday, August 21, 2006

The debate over Pluto rages: What is a planet? It is a question that calls us to take sides: the rationalists who insist that it can no longer be considered a planet, and the sentimentalists who will hear none of this aspersion against O Great Pluto. I have chosen my side in this debate, and [...]

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Buzz Buzzed

Monday, August 21, 2006

I knew something was up when the hits on WWTQ/Buzz suddenly took a huge jump — also generating a ton of secondary hits to this site. The hits were pouring in from Stavros The Wonder Chicken’s Bullshitr, which, it turns out, had been thoroughly Dugg, del.icio.us’ed, Hot Linked, Fireballed, Reddited, TechCrunched, and generally linked to [...]

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Nose + Paw

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Here are a couple of macro shots of Pandora on the couch, for your “aaawwww”-ing pleasure. Poor cat hasn’t been feeling well this past week — she’s been a bit weak, sleepier and more sedentary than usual, and has had a bit of a cough and a touch of feline conjunctivitis. She’s getting better now, [...]

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I was halfway out the door before I noticed

Friday, August 18, 2006

(I was halfway out the door before I noticed, uploaded by brownpau.)

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PoaS on ReadExpress

Friday, August 18, 2006

Thanks to Michael Grass at ReadExpress for highlighting Planes on a Snake yesterday. The joy of getting noticed was only partially dampened by the fact that my mention came out under a photo of Jessica Cutler, a.k.a. Washingtonienne. Ah, well, at least I can now say I had the Washingtonienne on top of me for [...]

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