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Se habla Español

July 19, 2007

Last night, I had a dream that one of our cats (The Pre­cious) was speak­ing Span­ish.  She wasn’t speak­ing it so much as pro­duc­ing Span­ish phrases from her mouth.  She had eaten some­thing that stuck to the roof of her mouth (like peanut but­ter) and as she scraped her tongue across it, it pro­duced noises […]

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& Science">Beer & Science

June 25, 2007

Is any­one up for some beer and sci­ence tonight?  I guess OMSI has a Sci­ence Pub series on the last Mon­day of each month at the pearl dis­trict Bridge­port.  Tonight’s topic is “Spinach on the Side: E. coli in Our Lives.”

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Gyroscope?

May 28, 2007

Last night, I had a dream in which I received a box of sex toys as a prize for something-or-other.  It was a small-ish card­board box, maybe the size of a shirt box, with cel­lo­phane win­dows in the front.  Upon open­ing it, there were a lot of the typ­i­cal things you would expect.  (I will […]

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This week: a comparison

May 17, 2007

This week, Kim bought sum­mer­time cloth­ing and sexy under­wear online. This week, I bought a new pen, spe­cial paper that lets you see mag­netic fields, and a radiome­ter online. That is all.

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Signals, Signals, Ring, and Cold Cooking

February 11, 2007

It occurred to me today, while sit­ting at a red light, that there must be a lan­guage to describe the pat­tern of traf­fic sig­nal changes.  There are a few spe­cific pat­terns that seem com­mon enough that there must be some field of study that gives them names that are not com­monly known out­side of the […]

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Plasticized Bodies!

January 23, 2007

The Gun­ther von Hagens exhibit (the one with the plas­ti­cized human bod­ies) is com­ing to OMSI!

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