Archive for May, 2008
Posted by bbc on 27 May 2008 | Tagged as: heard in the park blocks
"Does he have anything to do with roses?" I heard the question from a group of tourists -- addressed to one of their leaders, as I made my way through the Park Blocks in ...
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Posted by bbc on 26 May 2008 | Tagged as: musings
There's a lot of talk these days about convergence -- the movement of systems and processes toward some kind of unity or amalgamation. I was recently at a meeting of computer professionals where we had several sessions that talked about the development of new tools and programs that are gradually ...
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Posted by bbc on 24 May 2008 | Tagged as: musings
I'm not fanatical about reading the fine print on bottles and boxes, but I often do read anything that's put in front of me. So I was trying a new energy drink that had been handed out as a sample from a booth at one of the street fairs. Some ...
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Posted by bbc on 18 May 2008 | Tagged as: musings
The leaves have returned to the trees. This always happens and it's still incredibly amazing. I love watching them grow -- one day there's a haze of green and very swiftly there are full grown leaves, hiding the limbs I've been watching all winter and erasing the buildings from view. ...
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Posted by bbc on 17 May 2008 | Tagged as: musings, general
Wow, breaking the heat records in Oregon this weekend. A couple of days ago it was gray and drizzly and the high was in the low 60's. Yesterday and today it's been above 90 and even slightly humid. It feels like mid-May in Washington, D.C., where I used to live. ...
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Posted by bbc on 12 May 2008 | Tagged as: musings
One of the conventions used in old movies to show the passage of time was to show the days on a calendar rapidly flipping by. One of my calendars (I'm somewhat obsessive about them so I have several) has decided to change its own pages. The only thing is that ...
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Posted by bbc on 04 May 2008 | Tagged as: musings
O.K., I call it inertia, but really it's probably sheer laziness. Just depends on whose voice I want to hear in my head while I'm discussing my failure to do something or other. In this instance, I was reminded of it by one of the few forces that inspires me ...
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Posted by bbc on 02 May 2008 | Tagged as: musings
I'm not usually a big consumer of rice. Oh, I certainly eat it at restaurants or when I get a bento box or rice bowl for lunch at one of the food carts around town. Being at least half Scots-Irish, I grew up eating potatoes as one of the main ...
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