The dude moves around… June 26, 2007

Just a note to say that the incoming dude kicks and flips and rolls around an awful lot these days. Critterma pretty regularly goes, “WOW!” I look over and see strange roving lumps, coursing across her belly.
Morning edition had a piece today on the theoretical (and seemingly unverifiable) lifespan and size potential of lobsters. The [...]

the swarming summers June 26, 2007

I go back and forth on this, but I’m not sure which of the following inspires a more profound love/hate reaction for me:
1. National History Day, a more-than-a-day-long event that brings bazillions of high school students to campus to compete in some sort of history contest.
2. The perpetual cycle of sports camps whose participants overrun [...]

Remediation June 21, 2007

I’ve had a gmail account for a while, now, but just really started using it about a month ago. Same thing with the Facebook page. Also subscribed to two Yahoo groups (neighborhood and running club), and there’s a knowing comfort in having all those structures (Google docs, gmail archives and tags and conversations, Facebook’s fill-in-the-blank [...]

Hey… June 19, 2007

(dave e) seems moribund. I’ll hang on to the posts as a record and continue to lose a few hours every once in a while reading its older posts, but I’m ready to treat blogging differently now. Need a new place, and I reserved this WordPress name back in October with entirely different ideas about [...]