May 2010
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June 23, 2010
Bike to Work Day in Denver, Colorado. Mark your calendars!
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Invitations
Mailed!
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Invitations
Late last night, Rocky and I put together the wedding invitations for the seven out-of-town guests…she’s going to mail them today. Yay! We’ll try to get the rest of them printed tonight; hopefully, we’ll get them all sent out by the end of this week.
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Geometry
Okay, this is weird (to me, anyway. Maybe not to a geometry person).
Let’s say I build a compost pile using 8’ wood for the framing. If I make a 4’ x 4’ square, that’s 16 square feet of area. But if I make a 6’ x 2’ rectangle, that’s only 12 square feet…even though the perimeter of the frame is the same length. A 7’ x 1’ frame...
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Travel Story
In Turkey, I wanted to camp for a night, and found this ruined caravanserai off the road, so I rode my motorcycle up to it and set up my tent next to my bike in the ruins. Later that night, I got woken up by lights and voices. It turns out an army patrol had questions about an empty pickup truck that had been parked by the road nearby and was scouting around and found me.
They sent to a nearby...
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I Love Rock n Fun (Joan Jett vs. Fun Lovin’...
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“Take my advice: if the recipe calls for “three handfuls of lava,”...”
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Quiz: Are You Dead?
Has your life insurance company stopped sending you bills?
Try being right about something. Were you dead right?
When your local bar has “People Who Aren’t Dead Night,” do you still have to pay a cover?
Do you feel an unexplained affinity with doornails?
Are you getting a lot of junk mail from crematories?
Have you canceled your subscriptions to Life and Martha...
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Pfft.
Trying to finally get wedding invitations ready for printing, and we want to have a little line on the response card saying “we’re registered at Bed Bath and Beyond” But pretty much every site says “Don’t do that! It’s tacky and poor etiquette! That information gets included in the bridal shower invitation!” And…what if you’re not having a...
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Towel Day →
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the...
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Movies
El Santo y el aguila real [aka El Santo y la tigresa] (1973) - Got this from Netflix ‘cause I’d never seen a Mexican wrestler movie. This one starred El Santo, probably the most famous of Mexican lucha libre wrestlers. The movie, though, was amazingly campy/horrible. El Santo comes to help a friend’s daughter from unknown people who are trying to kill her. Ridiculous fight...
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Weekend
Man, we got a lot done this weekend! Planted many of our plants in the garden, unpacked a lot of kitchen and bedroom stuff, rearranged the furniture in the dining room, planted more veggies and herbs, went to a wedding in the mountains, went to a birthday party in Boulder, got a bit of a rebate from Home Depot for our washing machine (the price dropped $130 since we bought it! They gave us $50...
Breaded and Deep-Fried Dill Pickle Spears
Had at a restaurant this weekend. Tasty!
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