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Living la vida loca
We went wine tasting yesterday in the Sonoma Valley, which is one of the really fabulous wine making regions in the world. There appears to be a winery every ten feet or so, and I am not kidding by much. I have been advocating for some time the merits of the limo concept: hire a
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Run around Sue
We’re on the road again, in Sonoma for the Carneros Wine Country Half Marathon, Napa-to-Sonoma. The race is this coming Sunday, but we decided to come a couple of days early to enjoy the wine country. I flew to San Jose and spent a couple of days visting my aunt in Watsonville. On this trip
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Movable Type upgrade!
I upgraded the blog to Movable Type 3.31 last night, and it went quite smoothly. Biggest change I see: MT now supports tags for entries, the rebuilds are WAY faster and at long last the edit tools are now available in Safari (formerly you had to use Firefox to get the edit tools).
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How the Internet works
As explained by Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska. My fave bit: They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes. Oh really!?! People, these fools are making decisions that affect OUR LIVES!
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If it’s Sunday, it must be time for links to pointless video bits!
But they are all amusing, IMHO: Pirates vs. Ninjas!The victor is unclear, in my opinion. But I’m rooting for the pirates! Silent LibraryThe Japanese translations make it all worthwhile. Exploding HeadThere are a lot of variations on this theme, but this one is pretty good. Star Trek KaraokeNo really, you need to see this if
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Gross, suppurating goo (aka my knee, five days later)
My injured knee is healing, slowly but surely. the first layer of pussy scab came off today, revealing a readdish pink layer of new skin underneath. This image captures the molting midway. It only bugs me if anything rubs it (like sheets or pants) and stretches some when I bend my knee. We did an
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