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Amity inside Frank’s smooshed car, now minus the tree
Let it be recorded that Frank is now the proud owner of a new Honda Civic Hybrid with a navigational computer, apparently the only such car for sale anywhere in the New England area. Thank you,...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that no matter how long you wait in line for a resident parking sticker, there will be some reason that you can’t get it today: “I’m sorry, but you need to show,...
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The season for “a funny game called Football”
Homecoming band practice at UNH Originally uploaded by Edward Faulkner. I wasn’t thinking about football until MontaukRider blogged it: Tomorrow is Homecoming at my alma mater. I’ve attended the...
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Happy tenth blog-birthday to Dave Winer
Dave Winer’s Scripting News, still going strong at the ripe old age of ten (that’s 110 in blogyears)… Doc Searls got it right, in “A Post of Thanks.”: “When they scroll the credits of my life, Dave’s...
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Good Good-Friday advice and un-jellybean Easter
Gloria Originally uploaded by The Department. I get Google traffic looking for “E.B. White essay“; AKMA gets it for Good Friday sermon advice. He just posted some very good Good Friday sermon advice,...
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Gimli, son of Groin
“DM of the Rings” is a wonderfully comic rework of Lord of the Rings–images from the movie with cartoon dialog from a bunch of guys playing the story as a D & D game. Just for example… Frodo aka...
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Tolkien’s table, Merton College
Tolkien’s table, Merton College Originally uploaded by betsythedevine Is this the table where JRR Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings? Is it the setting he had in mind for Elrond’s conference where 4...
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Two men and a great big chainsaw
Two men and a great big chainsaw, a photo by betsythedevine on Flickr. That’s what it took to clear up all the trees that Hurricane Irene dumped back and forth across the road that leads to our house....
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Technology and progress: Past and present
My mother could remember when an electric iron and central heating were huge tech novelties. I can remember my first pocket calculator (which cost a fortune!), and I remember how long I kept using my...
View ArticleGround control to Major Tom
This 1969 David Bowie song has always brought tears to my eyes. And so (for the same reason) does Elton John’s song Rocket Man. Both these songs remind me of my brother Mark Devine (who died in 1998)...
View ArticleRemembering Leda Carpenter (1877–1954)
We spent every childhood summer with my “aunts,” who were in fact no relation to any of us. Aunt Martha and Aunt Harriet were the surviving two of three unmarried career women who had adopted my mother...
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