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Mindless littering

Suppose you were driving along with your windows down, or in a convertible, or with your sunroof/moonroof open, and I drove past you. Without looking, without paying any attention whatsoever, I toss a rotten tomato out of my car, and it lands in yours. How would you feel? How

Furniture

All hail Ikea. Not only did they design a jolly good TV table/cupboard thing, we put it together in under an hour without any yelling, sulking, snide remarks, or arguments about which way is up and which piece goes where. If you're browsing the Ikea catalog, this

Back home

Got back today from a wedding anniversary trip to Chicago. More tomorrow.

Changing the world

From Philip Gerard's "Writing a book that makes a difference" If you had the power to instantaneously change one thing in the world that didn't affect you personally, what would it be? Why would you change it? What's the most eloquent argument

New music

Does anyone know any compilations of Arabic electronica besides The Rough Guide to Arabesque?

Quiet

Someone in my department died last night in her sleep. There's only thirteen of us in the department. Don't know what to feel or think.

Float Trip

Hubby and I went on our first ever float trip this weekend, on the Black River, with a whole pile of people, friends and family of friends. After three days of solid rain, the river looked high and there was a noticeable current. Our first capsize happened about five minutes

Ugh

Historic day. My first afternoon off sick.

Observation

It's easier to put a cover on a futon than a duvet (quilt). Loose paper breeds rapidly. Objects can move from box to box by quantum tunnelling, disappearing from the box you left them in, and appearing in the box you just searched. If one person brings bagels

Snippets

I left my first ever Tour of Creve Coeur multi-cache on April 27th. Coco was picked up yesterday and is heading for Chicago. Hopefully from there he could leave the country and fulfill his mission of visiting New Zealand and the UK. The cat-on-a-leash experiment has concluded successfully, with one

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