This past week was Pioneer Day, the biggest holiday in Utah, including more fireworks than July 4th!! (of course, in Utah you always have the fireworks on the 3rd of July, don’t get me started) In any case, I decided to take this free day off of work to zip [...]
Entries from July 2007
Trip report: Grand Teton, July 2007
July 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Climbaholic
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Rube Goldberg machines, music making and vintage Sesame Street
July 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Musicalifragilisitc, Wonderfulness
From what I can tell, these all come from a Japanese children’s educational TV show, where such devices are often used for the intro/ending of to the show. Just amazing stuff! It is reminiscent of the Pointer Sister’s pinball number song on Sesame Street.
Of course, thinking about Sesame Street got me going [...]
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The Quantum State of Dick Cheney
July 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Politco Schmolitico
Hmmm, one supposes that instead of “particle spin” Cheney has “partisan spin”. In addition, according to the Dirac Equation, there would have to exist an anti-Cheney out there somewhere. Well, at least that’s the theory. Maybe he’ll (she’ll?) turn up soon, and annihilate the current VP in a puff of released energy. Hope [...]
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Aint no sunshine
July 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Musicalifragilisitc
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Word of the day: risible
July 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Wordswordswords
Today’s word, boys and girls, comes from my favorite of favorites talk show, Left, Right, and Center. Not only does it have actual, well thought out dialog, not only does it have a conservative that I actually can listen to and sometimes (egad!) agree with, but it also has the wonderful Arianna Huffington, who I [...]
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