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Make toast

August 3rd, 2004 · Comments Off on Make toast

That’s what I feel I should do as I look over these drafts that have been sitting around for a few days getting old and stale as I’ve stepped away from my desk. What else to do with day-old bread, but make toast? I think I’ll start by describing our weekend adventures and then perhaps […]

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Time to go paint my toenails

July 27th, 2004 · 1 Comment

It’s one of those nights. I’m feeling restless. It’s the gotta-get-through-this-week itch. What’ll it take? A batch of cookies? That’s the easy but bad habit that needs to break. Maybe simply scrubbing the house will ease my mind, the physical work moving the mental energy. Or perhaps I should take a bath and paint my […]

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Learning by dying

July 26th, 2004 · 2 Comments

Through Doc Searls’ post Survival of the Funnest I enjoyed an essay by Bernie DeKoven. I love his Funlog description This funlog, on the other hand, is Bernie DeKoven’s weblog, about Bernie’s search for signs of fun on the Internet. In his piece titled e-playing and e-learning: integral fun and meaningful failure Bernie DeKoven wrote: […]

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The love of cities and the mystique of mangos

July 21st, 2004 · 3 Comments

Anil Dash wrote a wisful and passionate farewell to the city he loves and left and in the midst of his memories he described what a mango can mean. In the little town where I’d grown up, mangos had only shown up in the local grocery store a few years earlier, being considered an ethnic […]

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Caution: slow speeds ahead

July 20th, 2004 · Comments Off on Caution: slow speeds ahead

On the street outside our neighborhood crews are creating a sidewalk. Or so I’ve heard. Right now all I know is that it is affecting how fast I can get where I want to go. Machines have taken down trees, stripping away a familiar layer of woods to expose thin pines, and workers direct traffic […]

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