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local music: superfun yeah yeah rocketship
last night we saw superfun yeah yeah rocketship at cognizant coffeehouse, in fountain square, indianapolis. j1 booked the show and it was a winner. the dood was friggin hilarious. he danced around like some crazy mix of flashdance meets the village people, only more crazy and more hyper. it had to be seen to be […]
oh, great, now i have to mow
well, it finally rained. the vegetable garden is looking pretty pathetic (though the puppy’s trampling of it likely isn’t helping) and the front yard actually sounds like gravel when you walk on it. but it was nice not to have to mow for a couple weeks.
armageddon
to quote my friend tom: “it sure is fun living in the end times.” Last week, the Audubon Society released a new report describing the sharp and startling population decline of some of the most familiar and common birds in America: several kinds of sparrows, the Northern bobwhite, the Eastern meadowlark, the common grackle and […]
the three treasures
on the path three things are regarded as the only treasures worth keeping. they are compassion, simplicity, and humility. in chapter 67 sentence 2 of the tao te ching, here are several translations that i’m fond of: I have three treasures to be maintained and cherished: the first is love; the second is frugality; the […]
About the term "Hoosier" | IndyStar.com
below i’ve included the entire text of the article, since the indianapolis star tends to drop their articles from reachability after a few weeks. in any case, i found it interesting, being a native hoosier: The word “Hoosier†isn’t a derisive term, as some historians believe, contends a Hanover College professor who recently found new […]
my dog is an astronaut
Scientists in the Soviet Union were sure that organisms from Earth could live in space. To demonstrate that, they sent the world’s second artificial space satellite — Sputnik 2 — to space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 3, 1957. On board was a live mongrel dog named Laika (Barker in Russian) on a life-support […]
Links for 6/18/07 (my NetNewsWire tabs)
alices_house: these are sneaky photos from books, beca Charlie’s Diary: The High Frontier, Redux Hohmann transfer orbit – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Proxima Centauri – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Artificial uterus – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia MAKE: Blog: Nintendo Wiimote Theremin with Moog Little Phatty Thru-Hiker: Gear and Resources for Long Distance Hikers instructables : […]
washer & dryer for sale
j1 & i have a washer and dryer for sale. the dryer is less than three years old and works perfectly. (it is electric only) the washer is 25 years old and also works perfectly. we replaced them with brand new energy efficient ones, because we’re al gore worshiping hippies (plus the LGs are sooo […]
Links for 6/16/07 (my NetNewsWire tabs)
The Daily Detour: Embracing the end of western civilization? Tina Su Photography Boing Boing: Yes Men crash oil expo, propose turning corpses into fuel Cribcandy – the household design blog. Daily picks of the best designed or most unusual finds, for your home A Good Reason Not To Go Frog Hunting. Make Your Own Sex […]
father’s day present
j2 gave me my father’s day present this morning just as i was leaving for work. awwwwr Technorati Tags: fathersday, fathersdaypresent, present
local music: born again floozies
Their first album, a five-song mini-compact disc, “Novelties, Addenda, and Ephemera,” received positive reviews from a number of critics, including Atlanta-based national independent music magazine Paste, with a distribution in 12 countries and 225,000 circulation. Paste put one of the Born Again Floozies’ songs on a sample CD of other independent artists and flew the […]
father’s day
this weekend is my first father’s day where i have a child (in his words i’m his “half step dad”) and j2 will be out of town with his “real” dad. he did give me a great big hug and kiss and wish me happy father’s day before i left for work today, and then […]