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The Ultimate Water Gun now
The Ultimate Water Gun now has remote video! I added a Plantraco wireless video camera to the helmet of the Ultimate Water Gun. Now you can see what the wearer of the Ultimate Water Gun sees on a mini-TV screen, and use a Motorola Talkabout two-way radio set to remotely direct the actions of the…
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Today’s Link: Bad Candy, where
Today’s Link: Bad Candy, where two intrepid Internet journalists have discovered and put on review both the freaky, horrible, burning-hot ear-of-corn-on-a-stick-dipped-in-burning powder candy that I saw in the colonias of Reynosa, Mexico, and the freaky double-salty licorice candy that pale, opprobrious Westtown teacher Master Norman Robinson used to force on his German students, including Kate.
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The importance of bad jokes
The funniest youth minister I ever met was a short Virginian guy in his forties, with salt-and-pepper hair and paratrooper boots. I was working for a week at a Young Life camp in upstate New York; he had brought a group of about fifteen teenagers, and they were working their way through the high ropes…
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Kate and I also
Kate and I also went to the Chester County Hospital’s May Day Carnival this weekend, and I just about wore out the digital camera trying to catch the spooky, doomed atmosphere that a carnival has when the weather is 45 degrees and cloudy. Or maybe it was just due to the worried animals in the…
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Today’s Links: Kate’s Blog: Billionaires
Today’s Links: Kate’s Blog: Billionaires Genevieve Futrelle’s Blog: East siders Tim Griffin’s Incredible Webcam Best police chase photo ever
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More vituperation: a taxonomy of
More vituperation: a taxonomy of service camp crews I painted a whole bunch of the new house this weekend; I put a second coat of ‘Moss White’ on the used-to-be-red bedroom, and two coats of the same color in the hallway and living room. In fact, I finished everything except the bathroom, hurrah! Usually, I…
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Rem Koolhaas must die. A
Rem Koolhaas must die. A couple of months ago, I did my best to tear Rem Koolhaas a new one for the friggin’ godawful new Prada store on Prince street. “The ultimate luxury is not shopping!” burbled this great, horrible pillock when describing why he had, on purpose, designed a space that was good for…
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In an email to me,
In an email to me, my dad had this to say about his own days on Amtrak, commuting four days a week from Philadelphia to edit Travel Holiday magazine: I remember the rag trade crowd from my own Amtrak days. Some of them can complain longer and louder than anyone I’ve ever heard, but they’re…
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I took some guitar lessons
I took some guitar lessons in high school (guitar playing, juggling, sandals; the embarassing triumvirate of quaker youth): enough so that the neck of the guitar stopped being a single, inscrutable unit and resolved itself into six separate strings and a fingerboard. I often think about that when I learn something new; a larger, complicated…
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See what Kate had to
See what Kate had to say about my most recent post.
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