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State of Geek Postponed

I’m postponing releasing the rest of the State of Geek essays. The timing puts them too close to other events that have happened around the immediate weblogging vicinity, and I really want them to stand alone as what they are – expressions of my thoughts and offerings of my writing. I didn’t write them to […]

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Avast Ye!

Ahoy ye blackguards and scallywags! Today be Talk Like a Pyrate Day! And to fill ye’r sorry lives, we three – Elaine, The Kalilily Queen, Jeneane, The Sword of the Marketeer, and meself, Flaming Bird, the Songster – will bring ye tales to make ye’r blood run hot, and ye’r spine run cold. After all, we Women of […]

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Being home and Open Aire conference

I returned from San Francisco, with its comfortable weather and lovely fog, to St. Louis where the weather is hitting record highs. I believe it was mid-90’s today and 50% humidity. The breeze kept the humidity down or it would really be unbearable. Walking this morning, I discovered a wonderful tree along the way with these feathery […]

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Day one being back

The weather was clear and hot during the trip, and the van had an air conditioner that either didn’t work well, or worked too well. The first day I wasn’t too tired and I thought about just driving straight through – 30+ hours – but I was concerned about hitting animals during the night. The […]

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What kind of drugs would go with this light?

It’s the water In my comments, Scott pointed out the same lava light that Allan also covered in his weblog — the giant lava light project in Soap Lake. Seems the folks of Soap Lake, Washington have decided to build a 60 feet tall Lava Lamp. This has enormous appeal for me, not just because of my own lava lamp collection, but also because […]