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Posted in Gaming on Aug 31st, 2007
Items sold have been removed and the listing cleaned up. Still plenty of neat stuff left and no reasonable offer refused.
I’m cleaning out my gaming collection in a virtual “garage” sale. Available items can be on this page or as an Excel spreadsheet. The table is sortable by columns. Simple click on column header [...]
Posted in Site Information on Aug 29th, 2007
Decisions, decisions…. to ban the entire .ru family of email domains? As far as I can tell I have NEVER received a non-spam email or blog comment from a .ru email address. Their newest fun is mass blasting blog registrations (which currently sit “forever pending” for the time being). I’m assuming that like all spam [...]
Posted in Gaming on Aug 26th, 2007
I’m cleaning out my gaming collection in a virtual “garage” sale. Available items can be on this page or as an Excel spreadsheet. The table is sortable by columns. Simple click on column header to sort contents. Multiple entries represent more than one copy an item, though condition may vary. Because of multiple [...]
Posted in News on Aug 23rd, 2007
(Associated Press) Baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs would be illegal under a proposed amendment to Atlanta’s indecency laws. The amendment, sponsored by city councilman C.T. Martin, states that sagging pants are an “epidemic” that is becoming a “major concern” around the country. “Little children see it and want to adopt it, thinking [...]
Posted in News on Aug 20th, 2007
(The Tennessean) He gets waves and cheerfully smiles. People elbow their friends and point as they drive by. On any given day, Sgt. Andy Miller may be the most popular cop running radar around Smyrna. The problem is, he’s not real — at least, the one many people see isn’t real. Earlier this month, the [...]
Posted in Environment, Journal on Aug 20th, 2007
After a morning chat with Twelveoaks where I confessed that I’d discovered that my last batch of oranges came from South Africa* we started talking about the halcyon days of Web Van and about veggie/fruit delivery services and local food co-ops. I’ve heard of a few here and there, but I don’t have any concise [...]
Posted in Squirrels on Aug 16th, 2007
(New Scientist) It’s Californian ground squirrel versus rattlesnake in a potentially lethal showdown. But the squirrel has a secret weapon that until now has remained invisible to the human eye. The ground squirrel heats up its tail then waves it in the snake’s face – a form of harassment that confuses the rattler, which has [...]
Posted in Environment on Aug 7th, 2007
(Christian Science Monitor) Tromping through a Massachusetts state forest, Brad Smith spots an old stump with dead shoots and one lone, green sprout – a sad but not uncommon remnant of a once-proud species – the American chestnut tree. Except for a few mature trees, the species has struggled for 50 years to survive. It [...]
Posted in Journal on Aug 7th, 2007
I find it charming that the Swiss take on a Fallout Shelter has a supply of bicycles (see pictures 7):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6904131.stm
I’ve made iced coffee before, but always with heat brewed coffee subsequently chilled, but I’ve never had the time or patience to try the cold brewed method. Borrowing from a Washington Post article, I used half a pound of dark roast in five cups of cold (not freezing) water in a large bowl. [...]
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