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google is sending me a t-shirt

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Because there’s nothing like an apology that comes straight from the marketing team. But really, I’m happy it’s straightened out and a little freaked out that I was 100% sure that this was how it was going to play out. It’s the most useless sort of psychic ability. The song and a little story about [...]

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my long underwater nightmare is over

Saturday, June 12, 2010

In some way I think I knew it was coming and so hurried up my efforts to appear to be hurrying it along. Once I’d written the song, someone passed it on to a friend and the next thing you know the Time Magazine blog, Techland called me about it asking “Is there a video [...]

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underwater and full of dust

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

My grandmother sent me a little packet of ash that had fallen on Mount Saint Helens back in 1980 when she was visiting Washington state, well before I’d ever considered living there. It stayed in my pink jewelry box [shut up] and somehow managed to come along with me this whole time until now it’s [...]

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fleeing the submerged city

Sunday, April 18, 2010

I’m a little surprised this is taking so long but a Google Maps search for Randolph Vermont is still showing the town in the middle of Lake Champlain. I have done what I consider to be “all I can” to try to get this rectified including clicking the report a problem link on Google Maps [...]

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stuck in the past

Friday, February 12, 2010

I was discussing with friends lately how the 1890s is my favorite decade. Back when this blog was just a teeny “what I did today” ramble, I’d take machine shop photos and colorize them so that I could have images to use next to some of my posts. This usually involved, in the late 1990s, [...]

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