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Critters outdoors Photography Places

Outdoors

The weather actually cooled sufficiently to go outside on both Friday and Saturday. The humidity was high, but with the car windows down, driving was very pleasant. Now is the best time to take photos of butterflies in this area, and so I packed up the gear and headed to the Busch Nature Center on […]

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Just Shelley

Perpetual State of Fear

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I grew up with duck and cover, fear obsession culminating in that abysmal, overdone, excessively histrionic Day After miniseries years ago. I grew up afraid; made more so, nay encouraged, by my own government. My government, which feared communism more than plague, hurricane, or other phenomena if one judges the amount of energy […]

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Weblogging

Barrel Report: A tired third edition

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I went searching for anything of news to post here in the Bb Gun, but all I kept thinking as I reviewed the stop stories is: God, I’m bored. How many times must Niall Kennedy change jobs before it gets to be old news? How is releasing new information, or […]

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Diversity Technology

Girl Geeks. Fact? Or Oxymoron?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In her OPML weblog, Hilary questioned the seeming double standard of calling Dave Winer out for sexist behavior, but not dong the same with Maryam Scoble. She has a good point. I had noticed Scoble’s original posting related to BlogHer, where she wrote: Are you a a single male geek wondering why your love […]

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Technology

Trifle Architecture

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When is software architecture like a desert trifle? When it’s in the hands of an imaginative Cal Henderson, software developer at Flickr. I’m both hungry and inspired to create something.