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RIP: Michelangelo Antonioni July 31, 2007

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One of my favorite directors. Please go buy and watch all his films.

Everybody’s a DJ July 20, 2007

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Me included. Here’s my last.fm playlist. There are more songs in the list than display in the little widget below. You can break out the widget into a stand-alone window also and just play in shuffle mode. Enjoy:

Personal Dirigibles July 17, 2007

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Million-dollar prize offered for soldier ‘power pack’

I need to draft my personal dirigible schematic, but it’s a no-brainer. Tie off the packs to the mini-zeppelin hovering overhead. The Zep will have a little propeller for propulsion so the soldier will hardly notice it’s there.

It can’t fail!

Here’s What We Missed

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While Terry and I had Sunrise Mountain and Mt. Hoffman all to ourselves, here’s what we missed down on lowly little Half Dome:

Half Dome line

And this is related to anti-trust how again? July 15, 2007

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Revealing Mackey’s sock-puppeteering does a good job of embarassing him personally, damaging Whole Foods reputation, but it protects consumers how again? It is relevant to the Wild Oats acquisition how again?

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Margarita Recipe July 14, 2007

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I don’t make a lot of cocktails, but it’s summer time and I like my Margarita recipe, so I’ll share.

I basically substitute Limoncello for the Triple Sec, so there’s no orange bottom to the flavor — it’s a pure lemon/lime flavor, one of my favorites. So:

50% Tequila (I don’t know enough to recommend, I just use Jose Cuervo Especial)

25% Limoncello

25% lime juice (fresh squeezed)

toss in ice and blend, or over rocks or whatever.

It’s lemon/limey and strong!

Vids and sounds July 13, 2007

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On old complaint: videos and audio effects on web pages should never automatically start to play. They should always have a start button and wait for a user to click play. Auto-start behavior would be as if your TV just started playing whatever channel it is on every time you glance in the general direction of the TV. That’s ridiculously annoying. Web designers should code the media to wait for user to explicitly perform a click. Better yet, browsers ought to allow you to control this behavior as a browser preference.

For now I’ll try this Firefox extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1765 

More Yosemite Pix July 7, 2007

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Back from the Sierras. 7 days of backpacking, with some High Sierra Camps mixed in. Park was bone dry. We did not go into the valley, but we looked down upon it like Gods from Mt. Sunrise and Mt. Hoffman. Fantastic trip.


Back July 6, 2007

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Back from a week in the woods. Any hilarious new LOLCats I should know about?