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Late to the party
Sunday, April 12th, 2009Last July, I went to Manchester, NH to test out some guns. Only today did I notice that in August 2008 Stephen Dubner used one of my Creative-Commons licensed photo in the Freakonomics blog. Kinda cool – in particular, they edited the image nicely. Much more nicely than the original. Kinda wish I’d known, but […]
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Vivian Darkbloom at PA’s Lounge
Sunday, October 5th, 2008Last night bookdwarf was out at a bachelorette party so I went over to PA’s Lounge to see a couple bands. I don’t get over there much but when I do, I kick myself for not going more often. It’s got an atmosphere that’s been ably described as “VFW Hall” — complete with sassy bartender […]
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Who Knew Rabies Would Be Such A Hot Topic?
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007I found a bat in my home last week, and accidentally touched it. That was the biggest thing that happened on this blog ever: Nine comments so far, and only two from me! One guy has been encouraging me to seek medical attention in case the bat I touched had rabies, and it scratched me […]
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Personal Accomplishment
Friday, September 14th, 20071mi warmup from Harvard sq. to race start; 4.2 mile run in 45 min; 1mi walk back. Also there was beer.
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Autism/Vaccination link was a scam
Friday, January 5th, 2007The story fits too easily into the trope of unscrupulous trial lawyers, but it looks like the researcher who made the autism/vaccination claims was paid big bucks by lawyers who hoped to cash out on lawsuits. Now, the whole conspiracy theory about vaccines causing autism is surrounded by melodramatic wailing and junk science, but on […]
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ADA Walk for Diabetes
Monday, October 9th, 2006Too much cash burning a hole in your wallet? Donate to my Walk for Diabetes team. Or join. Whatever.
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Hope in Dope
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Mmmm, EPO-licious: To this day, she blames Armstrong for what she said was pressure on teammates to use drugs. Her husband, she said, “didn’t use EPO for himself, because as a domestique, he was never going to win that race.” “It was for Lance,” she said.
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SEX CANNIBALS!
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006Some sexual cannibals, including female Chinese mantises, actually eat a lot of males. “One study estimated that 63 percent of the diet of females are male mantids,” Dr. Brown said. “So they’re the main food source.” Eeeeeeew.
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Liquids, gels, and aerosols on a plane
Friday, September 1st, 2006Last week I was sitting around with some people in a bar in San Francsico and we were trying to figure out the TSA’s regulations on things on planes. Snakes are OK, as we know. Solid foods are OK. Laptops are OK, except Dell and Apple laptops on Quantas and Virgin (this because of the […]
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Danger, Stephen Colbert, Danger!
Sunday, August 13th, 2006Scientists have cloned a bear.
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