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One man’s folly…
How one Japanese village defied the tsunami (via)
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Pool days
You can tell this is from a couple months ago because my car is still in the driveway (hopefully out of the shop soon), and our front lawn still exists (a month after this it was a rock garden for two weeks, then a weed bed, and now it’s a mud puddle we are waiting to line with plastic so we can replace the rocks and confound the weeds).
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Where’s Harry C?
When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren from Billy Crystal Seriously, the original When Harry Met Sally had the coolest soundtrack, ever.
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Early Morning Expression
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STP
Linking to that STP video in my last post got me to thinking… How could their music videos have been so bad when their recorded live sessions were so good? Their first two albums were so good, the diminishing returns that followed could be forgiven (unlike Pearl Jam, who never learned how to stop making bad albums) I first heard them 18 years ago? Really?? Damn I feel old… Max will feel about them like I felt about the Beatles! (He won’t really like them for another 18 years?) One of my favorite thing about Wikipedia is that it teaches me new (mostly useless) stuff about things I’ve liked/used for…
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Safety rules when around baby girl (rhymified for children)
When Mina has a gun, everybody run (imagined threat; props to STP) When Mina has a knife, quickly take it away, or run for your life (I am ashamed to say this actually happened when we were eating steak together) When Mina has a stick, cover up your ________ . (Max, earlier this evening: Daddy, why are you crying?)
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Epic Dive
Mina was playing on the bed earlier tonight when she slipped off a stack of pillows and tottered on the edge of the mattress, with a two foot fall to the tile floor suddenly imminent. I dove over the metal frame at the foot of the bed and made a blind grab for her leg just as she fell over backward, and ended up gripping her chubby little thigh… My arm automatically did a dumbbell curl and Mina twisted and hit the tile very lightly with her forehead, causing her to cry out in surprise. She ended up crying for a whole 30 seconds or so (long for her) and…
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Hapax legomenon of the day (with def)
Bamafutication: Claiming that the commander-in-chief had “nothing to do” with a military operation targeting the most wanted man in the world. ———– You’re just angry you missed the Apprentice. ———– UPDATE: Out of many, this is the best.
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Top Charoen Optical, Thailand (Commercial)
I need new glasses; I’m definitely going to one of the branches (3 or 4?) in town this week.
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