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mizumawari
In the past month I’ve had to replace the water pump and some skinny rubber hoses in my Crown as well as the radiator in the Cefiro. I had been refilling the water in the Crown every morning as it seemed to be losing 500cc or so per day. I could see where it was leaking from and figured it needed a new pump soon. The thing is, since I only drive it to work every day, I could afford to wait. Reversely, I couldn’t afford repairs right away so I just prayed for the old gal to soldier on until I could raise the scratch, and that she did.…
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The full Afroninja clip
The story behind this clip: This is footage from tryouts for an advisory role (martial arts) for a movie. I can’t believe I’d never seen it before; it’s just so classic: note: yes, that Afroninja
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Sepia Max is 7.9 kilograms (17.4165187 pounds)
Previous Max colors: coppermine max blue max
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Carlos Vamos Tapping Little Wing
OMG – that’s better than Steve Vai’s, Eric Clapton’s, and everybody else’s covers put together.
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Rumors of a coup
There are rumors of an imminent coup in Bangkok again. It may happen, it may not. Our house and family is protected by sheer distance. The only reason I write about this at all is in case telecom service is interrupted; there’s really nothing to worry about. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Eating Mickey (or, how I overcame one of my last food prejudices)
I ask that you have an open mind about this post, because the conclusion may surprise you – it sure surprised me. Here I am with my pal Mickey Rat: Mickey was a gift from Max’s babysitter’s husband, who went hunting for the fat critters in the rice fields last Friday night. Mickey came dressed and with all fur removed, and upon first inspection seemed clean enough… Why then did the mere sight of Mickey’s long tail cause such feelings of repulsion and disgust in me? Therein lies the irony: Originally, we were to be given a much larger present, but it was determined that such a large specimen might…
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Exercising Atrophied Illustrator Muscles
Well it took a whole day, but I finished our nengajo (traditional Japanese New Years cards) design! Yay! Max helped out by drooling on my keyboard and now all we have to do is get them printed, handwrite addresses and short greetings (mommy’s job), and send them out in the post! Since we changed addresses from last year we want to get the drop on everybody before they send cards to our old address… But to be quite honest, we have been bad analog correspondents – we haven’t sent cards since we left Japan (didn’t send very consistently then either, although we did the very last year we were there).…
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i can has cwacker?
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$25 and a Train Ticket
You may have heard by now about Google’s partnership with LIFE magazine: 10 million photos recently released, most of which have never been seen by the public. You can check out the site here: http://images.google.com/hosted/life I started playing with it today and was really impressed. I think I’ll integrate it into an upcoming lesson for the computer class I’m teaching. I don’t really know why, but I started out searching for one thing and got drawn down another path, and then another, and then I finally ended up looking for photos of internment camps – and WOW – there’s photos in here I’ve been looking for all my life it…
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Gmail themes
I’m having fun opening gmail in a browser window every time and staring into an angry supernova.
