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November 3, 2011

Light posting ahead. D and I will be on vacation / proper-honeymoon-after-five-years for the next couple of weeks. Aloha! Tweet

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Halloween 2011: Coastline Retreat Is Scary, Kids!

October 29, 2011

It started with me walking across the family room in a nude bathing suit and D looking up from his laptop with a “What the …” “I’ll be right back,” I said, putting on flip flops before walking into the frigid-by-Texas-drought-standards garage. “There’s some makeup in the car that I need.” And D got that [...]

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Happy Deepavali

October 26, 2011

Apropos of the reason for this Hindu festival: Questions Lit Up, in which Pratap Bhanu Mehta takes on the Delhi University ban on teaching A.K. Ramanujan’s essay on the Ramayana and chides the Indian left and right for hijacking the culture for political gain. … The Right commits the mistake of assimilating all tradition to [...]

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Now Showing At Homeland Insecurity Theater

October 18, 2011

Remember when TSA had this program and then cancelled it? Yeah, they’re resurrecting it. I would say Hallelujah but who knows whether it will make it out of the (second) trial? Pilot Starts at Select Airports to Further Enhance Security The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) [on October 4th, 2011] announced that it began testing a [...]

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Hack Your Town

September 7, 2011

“If guns are about power, then hacking is about secret knowledge, and knowledge is also power.” – Charlie Stross in The Fear Factory “Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.” – H. Jackson Brown Chicago Trib news app developer leaves Chicago and moves to small town of [...]

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I’m A Dirty, Dark Tamilian

August 16, 2011

Oh, she actually meant dirty. From IndiaTV: A US diplomat was caught in a row after her remarks of “dirty and dark” Tamilians, prompting the American consulate [in Chennai] to term them as “inappropriate”. “I was on a 24-hour train trip from Delhi to Orissa. But, after 72 hours, the train still did not reach [...]

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Dragonflies On Algal Bloom, Door County, Wisconsin

August 10, 2011

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“Honest Debate”

July 27, 2011

Juan Williams was on the Bob Edwards show yesterday promoting his new book. He stated again that people in Muslim garb in airports do frighten him (without any caveat this time) and that his saying this is part of Honest Debate. If you’re truly interested in such debate, the first rule is to question the [...]

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L’École des Ursulines de Québec

July 24, 2011

Stumbled upon a street called Ruelle des Ursulines and you know I had to check it out. I ended up walking through the grounds of the School of the Ursulines, one of the oldest schools in North America and a UNESCO world heritage site. More pictures from the Quebec trip in this slideshow. Tweet

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Québec City Was Founded On A High Cape Of Utica Shale

July 18, 2011

Québec City sits between the Laurentian highlands of the southeastern Grenville Province of the Canadian Shield and the Appalachian Mountains that were formed during the Taconic and Acadian orogenies. Bedrock here is the Upper Ordovician Utica shale that “overlies the predominantly shallow marine carbonate facies of the Cambrian-Ordovician St. Lawrence Platform” (or St. Lawrence lowlands).The [...]

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