Forced to write a daybook on account of ’cause I ran across a cool word of the day, which is: word of the day: “apophenia” – “the experience of seeing patterns where none exist” – definition from Bob Park, writing in the 9 December New Scientist reading: Acequia Culture, Jose Rivera’s book about the village-based …
My Journal colleague Pat Vasquez-Cunningham did a beautiful multimedia package based on his photographs and interviews with Pearl Harbor survivor Ray Baker. Additional interviews with Homer Garcia, John Stanhope and James Rounding.
There’s a phrase that’s never appeared in the Googleverse. Until now.
I didn’t have my camera with me this morning when I rode by the Wal-Mart up on Carlisle, so you’ll have to forgive this Inkstain file photo to illustrate today’s update on the onrushing Christmas consuming season. When last we tallied up the temporary shipping containers filling the parking lot behind this particular Wal-Mart superstore, …
20061123webstats Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Y’all are a predictable bunch, according to Google Analytics. This is the number of visitors by day of the week since last June, when I started running GA. I can’t imagine how this blog could possibly be work related, but there it is. The stats don’t lie: you roll into …
Eckleberg: I bet you that most of the world’s most cherished sites are all far more peed upon than most of the world’s most uninteresting, non-descript buildings.
John Quiggin threw down the gauntlet last week: Although both global warming denialists and moon landing denialists routinely accuse NASA scientists of fraud, the two groups appear not to have made common cause as yet (Please correct me if I’m wrong). Were that it were so, John. From someone called “gren” over at something called …
If some of my friends from the UK and its former extened empire could help me a bit, please, I’m befuddled by this, which is apparently a feat of some significance, but which completely baffles me: B Manoj Kumar and Mohammed Shaibaaz Tumbi, opening for St Peter’s School in Hyderabad, rattled off 721 runs in …
Miguel Cooks Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. That hat makes the man. Or possibly the tongs. Or possibly it’s simply the joie de vivre that leads one to invite one’s friends to a stadium parking lot on a blustery Saturday afternoon for a pre-game tailgate party. Never mind that none of us had station wagons or …
From today’s New York Times, a story about a Marine patrol, occupying an Iraqi home as an observation outpost, and getting news of the election fallout from their “host”: Now they were being told by an Iraqi whose house they occupied that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, one of the principal architects of the policies …