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5.28.2002/17:13
We took a five-day Memorial Day weekend, going out to the Bay Area to see all sorts of friends. We also took time to see the Edward Weston: The Last Years in Carmel exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which included amongst its many wonderful photos the best picture of kelp I've ever seen.
				5.28.2002/17:11
				Why do I not have a good feeling about this?
	5.28.2002/09:26
	COUNTERMAN: Let's see, that's six dollars and seventeen cents, here's your change... CUSTOMER: Thanking you. COUNTERMAN (amused): Say, those are pretty interesting... sunglasses, I guess you would call them. Where are you folks from? CUSTOMER: Earth! We are from Earth! CUSTOMER'S COMPANION: Yes, yes, Earth! We are from your Earth! We have identity placards! CUSTOMER: Always from your Earth are we!
				5.24.2002/11:03
				Nice day's work at the ballpark.
5.22.2002/08:33
Here's your place for golf cart wheels.
	5.21.2002/08:13
	The Pope's first hotel.
				5.20.2002/13:13
				This interests me very much
		5.20.2002/08:05
		Longest-running Broadway shows. Including the now nearly-forgotten Abie's Irish Rose, which I believe in its day held the record for longest run..
			5.20.2002/08:04
			Name the baby. Kill the music, though.
5.15.2002/22:22
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.: crestedbuttewildflowerfestival.com.
	5.15.2002/22:18
	This Site Makes It Clear To Me Why There Is An Internet Dept.: Astronomers of the African Diaspora.
				5.15.2002/22:16
				When worlds collide.
5.15.2002/18:10
White socks.
	5.13.2002/09:38
	Stick insects of Australia.
			5.12.2002/09:59
			Media News: I've just learned that all of Thomas Hardy's novels have been bought out by the publishers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works, and that the first new synergistic product of the merger will come next year with the publication of Tess of the Baskervilles.
5.10.2002/08:22
So, having bought the iBook, I was entitled to a rebate if I bought an iPod, and who am I to demur? A fantastic device, tightly integrated with the music on the iBook. So far as I know, there's nothing even close in the PC world. Apple is smart to make the iPod not work with PCs, at least for a little while, because people will buy Macs to use it... although I imagine we will have third party workarounds popping up all over soon, along with no end of poking around.
	5.10.2002/8:18
	A really nice web site whose subject matter is quuite literally right out there in the yard.
				5.10.2002/08:13
				Good for her!
			5.7.2002/08:06
			Who needs ray guns and blasters when you can simply employ Martian toe-rot?
5.7.2002/07:52
A giraffe's right to privacy.
	5.6.2002/07:03
	Finally, some good straight information about Daddy-longlegs.
			5.4.2002/11:56
			We have been so much enjoying the fact that there is a family of crows in our neighborhood. I managed to get a photo of little Reginald this morning high up in his nest, but it did not make his mom (or is that Reginald's dad??) very happy to see me at the foot of the tree!
5.4.2002/07:57
I done went and got me an iBook. I went for the 12-inch one because I wanted it small. I've had it a few days, and boy do I like it so far. I put an AirPort card in and there was absoultely no trouble with it finding my 802.11b home network. I've even signed up for a T-Mobile account so that when I'm on the road I can cruise into Starbucks and check my email via broadband. The iBook is compact, looks great, has a beautiful little screen and even though the Mac world is in OS turmoil, it's pretty easy to use. I can read my PC drives right out the box using the Mac's Samba abilities (though I had to search the net to find someplace where the syntax was explained). The newest version of AppleWorks (a suite of reasnoably good power considering that it is included with the unit) lets you edit Word files and ship them back to the PC, and although a really complex page might need some tinkering, the kind of daily grind word processing I do is no challenge to making things work. Excel spreadsheets are a little tougher to move back and forth gracefully, especially as the AppleWorks doesn't support separate sheets (a mutli-sheet Excel file will load with all its sheets parsed down the page in one AppleWorks worksheet), though you can get the data back and forth. After probably a dozen PCs over my life time, this is the first Mac I have owned, though I did have one on my desktop for about a year at a newspaper office. So much of what I do now is email and web that the specific platform isn't so limiting, I suppose. I've already taken the iBook on the road instead of my Sony Vaio, and I didn't have any reason to be anything but happy. I like the size, look and feel of the iBook. Highly recommended if you're in the market for a notebook.
				5.4.2002/07:40
				I'm living in an oasis of recycling...
			5.3.2002/05:28
			Forms of life imitate forms of art: RoboRat.
5.2.2002/16:37
A giant, stinky flower in the news.
		5.2.2002/13:09
		Duh. A little while ago I said to Susan, without,of course, realizing at first just what I was saying, "Nothing exists in a vacuum."
	5.1.2002/07:02
	Will somebody please give this poor child a baloney sandwich?
5.1.2002/06:58
Deadly cobras in the news.