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Monthly Archives: May 2007

a nice patch of radio silence

Thursday, May 31, 2007

When the phrase “radio silence” doesn’t make me think of Thomas Dolby, it makes me think of a bunch of guys in a submarine turning off all of their soundmaking equipment and engines and floating quietly in the water looking nervously around waiting to see if something bad happens, expecting something bad.
So, I’ve been MIA [...]

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staying in bed this Sunday

Sunday, May 20, 2007

I have a heavy heart this week. A longtime friend of the family died on Tuesday. I put a photo of her up on Flickr, but otherwise I haven’t been talking about it much. Pat’s obit is here and it’s more of one than she would have had if she had gotten her druthers. I [...]

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today’s rainbow of birds

Saturday, May 19, 2007

red - cardinalorange - mystery orange thing, also baltimore orioleyellow - goldfinch, evening grosbeakgreen - ruby throated hummingbirdblue - indigo buntingbrown - finchestan - chickadeeblack - gracklewhite - nuthatchblack and white and red all over - rose-breasted grosbeak

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it’s a good and bad week for….

Sunday, May 13, 2007

It’s a good and bad week for birds. The grosbeaks have come back this week and I saw a Baltimore oriole way up high in the trees which never happens. My neighbor Chris was over so he was able to help me identify the bird and share in the little “yay orioles!” party. It was [...]

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hi jessamyn

Friday, May 11, 2007

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taken by drunkenass.
Message in my inbox today, not at all about Ubuntu.
Hi Jessamyn,
As a teacher in China sometimes you get to name children. Well, give them English names. So tonight at a restaurant a young [...]

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weird little radar blip

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

So I got back from the Massachusetts Library Association conference on Friday. Monday I went to one of the little libraries I work with and installed Ubuntu on their donated PCs. They have two Windows machines and the new machines asked for a Windows product code key when you turned them on. Pretty annoying. I [...]

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Back from the conference, back from the post office

Saturday, May 5, 2007

I got back from the MLA conference and my little write-up is here. I gave a talk that went well, and I got to see a bunch of friends that I don’t see nearly enough.
Just recently, however, I got back from the post office. I had a few little packages, two postcards, some frequent [...]

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