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I feel so petty. One of my articles in the Statesman mentions Americans as wide, stupid, lazy, and prone to falling down elevator shafts a lot. I intended it as complete sarcasm, a jab at the flawed international opinion of... Keep reading this entry »
I started looking into Project Autolech, whereby I will automate entries, archives and post linkage on Cromlech through a slick interface a la every other blog in the digital universe. Checked out moveabletype.org and as soon as they started talking... Keep reading this entry »
It's been snowing all day, a light powdery snow that falls slowly and dashes away at your footsteps. I'd love to go outside and take pictures, but my camera is still drying out after its weekend dunk in an underground... Keep reading this entry »
I got some nice boots last year. A store had great deals on Doc Martens, and since everyone raves about how they last for centuries and massage your feet as you walk, I picked up a pair. And they are... Keep reading this entry »
At Cub Foods they had an aspirin display. It was a full-sized skid, stacked chest high with boxes of aspirin bottles. Anticipating a semester wrought with headaches, I was tempted to get a box. Let's see, thirty bottles in a... Keep reading this entry »
I spent a good part of my day in storm drains, today. We found some pretty cool things; spiders, young flowstone formations, a 20 foot underground waterfall, methane gas... we decided to explore one tunnel as far as it would... Keep reading this entry »
So, this semester all Journalism students were issued laptops... even me, against anyone's better judgement. At the bleary-eyed time of 8:00 ITSS dropped by our classroom and hooked us up with some phat portable processing power. No one seemed particularly... Keep reading this entry »
What if bruises could move around your body? Say, for instance, you got tripped by a penguin and smacked into a tree. A large bruise develops on your thigh, but what if it could crawl around under your skin and... Keep reading this entry »
The brand-new MPAC elevator is now complete and boy is she a beauty. Her brushed metal doors gleam like golden door-shaped trumpets and she offers speedy, convenient access to multiple floors. The elevator is the quintessential American invention, as everyone... Keep reading this entry »
A testament to why I need morning classes. Tuesday and Thursday I don't start until 11:00, so it is now 8:43 and I've been wasting the morning with things like this: Your wife's name is Natalie Portman and you have... Keep reading this entry »
Steven den Beste wrote a nice blurb on the weblog revolution. Don't expect Cromlech to become this nice and thoughtful for a few years, yet. I'm still hacking through the unimportant 'web diary' quagmire, which will really only interest people... Keep reading this entry »
I am Kong. Strong and passionate, I tend to be misunderstood, sometimes even feared. I don't want to fight, I don't want to cause trouble, all I ask is a little love, and a little peace. If I don't get... Keep reading this entry »
It offers the psychic pleasure--what Csikszentmihalyi has called "flow"--that accompanies increased mastery of most any human endeavor. The master hast returned from Colorado, and after many encounters with the ruthless snowfoot eel has he attained the legendary Flow. Bruises, frost-bite,... Keep reading this entry »
The threat, ethics and responsibility of being googled continues in MetaTalk. I especially liked this one by frykitty: Someone smart enough to use the web to investigate a potential employee should be smart enough to know that it's a library... Keep reading this entry »
The temperature suggests that it's raining, but the precipitation falling is much too slow. Conclusion? It's either snowing or the gravity shackles broke down. TEST: Nope. I fell down the spiral staircase just as usual. Gravity is fine. It must... Keep reading this entry »
Helpful cooking hint: Remove pizza from aluminum foil before microwaving. Snowboarding was pathetic last night. The temperature was in the upper 30's and everything was melting like a witch caught in a storm drain. That which was not melting was... Keep reading this entry »
My apologies for the spotty availability of Cromlech these last few days. The Party Apartment has been having trouble with its cable modem. Sometimes it gets unplugged to watch football. If conditions don't get better soon, I may move Cromlech... Keep reading this entry »
Way back in the day I was in Boy Scouts, which seemed a fit place to put strapping young lads that enjoyed the outdoors. The trips were usually a pretty good time, setting fires, cutting fingers and drinking Hyper-Juice. Perhaps... Keep reading this entry »
Three, count 'em, three entries yesterday. I'm gonna keep this one short, even though I'm chock full of ideas... too... weak... to... type. Ryan and I went up to Lutsen today, cuz Spirit Mountain season pass holders got to ski/board... Keep reading this entry »
It's a crazy, small world. Went snowboarding by myself today, and in the first lift group I rode up with was a sax player with whom I played in All-State and at the Shell Lake jazz camp. As with all... Keep reading this entry »
Barnes et Nobles is one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century. A large book repository with green carpet and dark wooden shelves, it's the only 'big box' company I know that doesn't have that sterile big box feel...... Keep reading this entry »
The problem with dating my Blither entries is the crazy times they get written. They are usually written so near midnight that either date straddled could be attached to the entry and be accurate... but sometimes they are written later,... Keep reading this entry »
2002 is off to a wonderful start. I wrote a splendid entry the other day on my return to Duluth, a chilling dip in the Lake, rationalities behind all passions... why, I even lapsed into a Latin palindrome, the juices... Keep reading this entry »