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Not Quite Elves at the North Pole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9C1kBeO48Q I could not help myself but remix when I saw the tweet by Tim Maughan (actually retweeted by @savasavasava) https://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/497770409660801026 Mostly through sava’s tweets, I’ve gathered Tim is on some expedition, by freighter ship, to China, to get to the source of those shiny things on our store shelves. According to his original video, […]

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The Te of Pages

Because he wrote The Tao of Posts and asked for it, comes the Te of Pages. From the original As we were saying, Te is pronounced DEH. In classical Chinese, it is written two ways. The first joins the character “upright” to the character for “heart”. It’s meaning is virtue. The second way adds the […]

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The Last Narrator

This blog has 4097 posts since April 2003. My flickr photos includes 38,443 photos since March 2004. These are not numbers I call up to brag about (but please, tell me about about your 30,000th twitter follower). On a more recurring basis, I have noticed how often I use both of them, especially an ability […]

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Project SSD Complete!

It took a new laptop, 3 or 4 trips of cracking open the case, and almost a year– but I finally have my old (2009 Mid Year) Mac Book Pro running from a Solid State Drive (SSD). And like I was told, the speed difference in that machine is remarkable. Startup time was about 4 […]

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21 Years Beyond Dominoe

creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Here we are in 1987, me a 24 year old mullet head know-not-much and my side kick, Dominoe. In May of that year we did a practice camping trip in western Maryland’ it might very well have been the Catoctin Mountain area where the […]