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Critters

We’re bored

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It was stormy last night, stormy today. Stormy and wet. I’m at my computer at the window, overlooking the street when I see a young man dressed in sweats running down the street. Running full out, as if he’s chasing something. I stand up and look out the window and […]

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Critters

They shoot squirrels, don’t they?

  Many experts believe the red/grey/white tension is simply a by-product of the longstanding White Squirrel War and Black Squirrel Squabble that have long raged in the U.S. And, as these conflicts make clear, it is not just squirrel infighting that threatens to explode into an orgiastic, terrorist bloodbath. Squirrels are increasingly making humans the […]

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Media

Saturday Matinee

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m returning to the “Saturday Matinee” posts, where I’ll review an oldie but goodie movie beginning this weekend. Tomorrow, it’s a double feature: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women. There’s been an amazing number of old science fiction movies that have entered into public domain, as […]

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Just Shelley

Guido the Librarian

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I had checked out a book in late July on art and photography. It’s an older book, recommended by one of you, and not necessarily a quick read. It’s history showed I was the first person to have checked it out in several years. As happens sometimes, I read a […]

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Technology

Ajax Myth Busting

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Frontforge has a set of Ajax evaluation criteria that look, at first glance, quite good until you drill down into each item. Since the page is created in such a way that I can’t right-mouse button copy text in order to make quotes (and breaks in Safari to boot), you’ll have […]