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Fence

September 15th, 2006 No comments

From our walk yesterday.

Fence

The weather has finally improved after at least ten days of clouds and rain. K and I made the most of it.

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Fan

September 11th, 2006 No comments
Cleaning the Fan I
Cleaning the Fan II
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Seven Doors

September 9th, 2006 No comments
Seven Doors
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The Dresser

August 20th, 2006 No comments

My latest project — the dresser.

Dresser
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Language Log

August 8th, 2006 No comments

My new favorite site:Language Log. “Weblog run by University of Pennsylvania phonetician Mark Liberman, with multiple guest linguists.”

This entry on Dan Brown from a couple of years ago left me wiping the tears from my eyes. In another entry about Brown books, we read, “In short, to call this novel formulaic is an insult to the beauty and diversity of formulae.” (Source)

Really worth a look.

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Vine Update Update

July 31st, 2006 No comments

The growth of the middle vine in twenty-four hours:

Vines

“Incredible” does not do it justice. (Click on the image for a Flickr enlargement.)

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Vine Update

July 31st, 2006 No comments

The back-porch vine — a potato-something — has been growing at Jack-and-the-Bean-Stalk-ian proportions.

Vine I

It literally grows a measurable length every every day.

Vine II

It’s difficult to tell, but the middle vine has already, within a week, reached the bottom of our neighbor’s deck — our “roof,” I suppose — and will soon be snaking its way across, eventually to drop down to the banistar and begin weaving in and out of its rails. At least that’s how we’ve run the guide wire.

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Redundancy

July 30th, 2006 No comments
Redundancy
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Flashback

July 28th, 2006 No comments

Looking at Google News, for a moment, I thought I’d stepped back in time.

Screen Shot

“Maybe the South is going to rise again,” I pondered…

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The Myth of Sisyphus

July 24th, 2006 No comments

SisyphusCamus was wrong: Sisyphus had it easy.

There’s little heroism in doing something when you know there’s no hope of success. Later critics called Camus’ creation “existentialism.” It’s really either stubbornness or stupidity. Or boredom. Whatever it was that kept Sisyphus rolling that boulder back up the hill, he suffered no delusions that this time would be different than any other time he’d done it. He pushed the stone up without any hope of success. Not even Camus’ modern re-creation of Sisyphus, Dr. Bernard Rieux, had any hope of curing any of his patients in The Plague.

Sisyphus and Rieux have the luxury of hopelessness.

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