Went to the hardware store, couldn’t find the precisely the right single plumbing connector and had to get three separate pieces instead. Meaning, of course, that I now have twice as many joins and twice as many opportunities to leak. I put the pieces together, connected them to the filter, and no leaks!
Apparently, plumbing is […]
In graduate school, I had a Chinese friend who used to say that he was destined to have plumbing problems because there was too much water in his name. Both his family name and his given name referenced water. This excess of water meant that he would always have plumbing problems.
I sympathize with […]
Run for your lives! This is not a drill. My mother is loose in the blogosphere (hi mom!). To friends of mine noticing random, anonymous comments in their blogs, it’s not my fault - I swear.
That is all. I now return you to your regularly scheduled Internet slack.
I like taking pictures. When it comes to outdoor/wildlife photography, I like taking lots of pictures. K and I went on vacation to Yellowstone for two weeks, getting back at the beginning of June. I wound up with 22 rolls of 36 exposure slide film. For those of you keeping score […]
After 5+ years of doing image compression research back in the 90s, I get the strangest email requests. These usually come from students who are trying to get out of doing their own homework. Today’s example came with the subject line “plz help me.” I almost deleted it as spam, but decided to take a […]
I wonder if these folks have read the recent article in the NY Times regarding prosopagnosia?
The company Passfaces has a password replacement technology that uses the brain’s ability to recognize faces. The idea is that the user selects a set of faces. They are then presented with a series of options where each […]
So, a “Which Tarot card are you” quiz isn’t my usual thing. I blame labrown
The magician
You scored 59 change, 74 wellbeing, 71 wisdom, and 87 truth
The magician represents the conscious mind. With focus on an idea or goal, the conscious mind sets into action these ideas and brings them forth to the material […]
Took the morning off and went blueberry picking. An hour and a half later and we had about 8 pounds. Perfect for making blueberry pancakes, muffins, etc. Now the only question: “are 5 quarts of blueberries enough?”
My life as the husband of a wildlife rehabilitator…
A client…
A client turned pet (don’t ask)…
Pyramid of baby turtles (no, this isn’t posed)…
A recent delivery - I wonder what the poor driver thought…
but at least it had dry ice in it…
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