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  • rajbot 10:01 pm on April 8, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Zara and Ice Bat, BFF 

    We found Ice-Bat at Archimage in Rochester, and brought him home to live with us. We didn’t know how Zara and Ice-Bat would get along, but they’ve become fast friends!

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    More pics!

    Also, don’t let your dog play with things that aren’t dog toys. It is dangerous.

     
  • rajbot 11:10 pm on April 7, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Miranda July Book Tour 

    Miranda July has an absolutely brilliant website for her new book, No one belongs here more than you.

    According to her stove, she will be in LA on May 15 and in SF on May 16 to promote her new book. We should go!

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    • may 2:26 pm on April 9, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      oh yes let’s go! may 16th is a wed so i should be working from home that day! :-)

    • bobslobster 5:06 pm on April 9, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      the one of may 15th is right down the street! too bad i am working..

  • rajbot 10:07 pm on April 7, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Cybersquatters block the Internet Archive Wayback Machine 

    We know that domain squatters are scummy, but I never knew they were this scummy. The squatters who picked up http://goldengatetunnel.com/ are specifically blocking the Wayback Machine. Their robots.txt file not only prevents any new crawls, but since the Wayback Machine applies robots.txt retroactively, we can’t even see the previoiusly-archived (pre-squatter) web site :(
    [nocode]
    User-agent: ia_archiver
    Disallow: /
    User-agent: *
    Disallow:
    [/nocode]

    Anyway, Dodger pointed me to this awesome bumper sticker.. Those who know, go below!
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    • Herve 1:54 pm on April 9, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      The golden gate tunnel has a donut court with NINE different donut vendors. Don’t miss it next time you go to Marin.
      I have some extra stickers. I can be bribed with donuts…

  • rajbot 9:43 pm on April 7, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel 

    I wish I had known about this sooner! We should tell mang and jim and spot and our other NYC friends!

    Who can imagine New York City without the Mission burrito? Like the Yankees, the Brooklyn Bridge or the bagel, the oversize burritos have become a New York institution. And yet it wasn’t long ago that it was impossible to find a good burrito of any kind in the city. As the 30th anniversary of the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel approaches, it’s worth taking a look at the remarkable sequence of events that takes place between the time we click “deliver” on the burrito.nyc.us.gov website and the moment that our hot El Farolito burrito arrives in the lunchroom with its satisfying pneumatic hiss.

    Link!

     
    • spot 9:08 pm on April 14, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      omg that’s amazing thanks raj!
      if only it were true.

  • mitch 8:17 pm on April 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    at risk veggies 

    I am tired, but I want to share. Very little verbiage is made up for by quite of bit of foliage.

    Not quite so satisfying as the [Lorelei edited] classic Oedipus, but still very moving.

    You can find this here. Squeeze it. Mix it with vodka?

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    • rajbot 10:38 am on April 5, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Wow… who knew that vegitables led such sordid lives???

    • may 1:27 pm on April 6, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      poor little orange…maybe he should take up with the nectarine. ooooh, they could make nect-orange babies – yummy!

  • may 10:41 am on April 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Tech Shop 

    techshop_logo.pngThe Tech Shop looks an awful lot like a dreaded office park building from the photo on their website and it’s in Menlo Park…BUT it has a full range of equipment for building just about anything (including a 3d printer that can make ABS plastic thingies from your CAD file) and classes on things like How to Use a Plasmer Cutter, Single-Beam Holography, and Choosing A Microcontroller. Ever since my friend Doria gave me this bracelet that she made with a laser cutter, I’ve been wanting a necklace / choker to go with it, so I think I’m going to check out this class after work!

     
  • may 11:27 pm on April 2, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Novato to Tomales Bay Loop 

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    This past Saturday, peliom came along on my bike ride and we did a loop in Marin from Novato to Tomales Bay. It was a great day! (though there were definitely more cars on these roads than on the Petaluma-Dillion beach route). The ride was 48 miles with about 1800 ft of climbing. This was also my last ride for the month of March which turned out to be a pretty good month. Aside from the week I spent out of town, I managed to get in the recommended 100-125 miles of riding per week. Yay! My training schedule roughly works out to this (on an ideal week)…

    • Mon – 5 miles (commute)
    • Tue – 6 miles (commute) + 45 min. swim (or weights if I don’t feel like getting wet)
    • Wed – 25 miles (butter lap around the city)
    • Thu – 6 miles (commute) + 45 min. swim (or weights)
    • Fri – 5 miles (commute)
    • Sat – 25-50 miles
    • Sun – 50-70 miles (lifecycle training ride)

    Of course I don’t always follow this to a T, but when I miss a day, I try to make up for it on another day. Mondays and Fridays are my “rest days” so sometimes I’ll drive to work on those days. Anyways, two more months til I ride down to LA. For the month of April, I’m supposed to bump up the mileage to 125-150 miles / week. I also signed up to do the Wildflower Century in 3 weeks on April 22nd. my first one ever!

     
    • sonya 11:42 pm on April 2, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      The pretty purple flower looks like ice plant — brought over here from South Africa to stabilize soil beside railroad tracks, and still used by Caltrans on road projects…meanwhile the park service spends millions to remove it.

  • rajbot 4:51 pm on April 2, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Pushy Architects Unveil Groundbreaking Technology For Teen Titans 

    I just got the strangest email.. It came from pandemicrawfrankfurters at yourhippyfriendskilledaroosterbyblowingtoomuchsmokeinitsbeak.com

    I don’t know what you are selling, dude, but I want in. Just let me know where to bury the shoebox full of money.

    BREAKING NEWS – BREAKING NEWS – BREAKING NEWS – BREAKING NEWS

    Pushy Architects Unveil Groundbreaking Technology For Teen Titans, Brush Aside Conspiracy Theorists Claims of Failure*

    BUTTE, MT – NOVEMBER 31, 2008 –

    In a remarkable discovery by Scientists who know things of importance, Banned substances composed of gold, freeze-dried tomatoes, bunions, cold frankfurters and extremely wet paste made in Peru have been combined in an innovative fashion to reveal what man has always feared: granite no longer weighs as much as it did in the Stone Age.

    Against all odds and despite incredible circumstances of little merit, these Scientists determined this astounding fact while testing 5-year-old Beowulfs infected with the passive-aggressive DNA of long-extinct wooly mammoths.

    During the initial testing phase of this mouth-watering experiment, Scientists were surprised to realize the 5-year-old Beowulfs responded with extreme vim and vigor to granite containing the aforementioned banned substances, adamantly licking the granite for days on end with little concern for their surroundings. Eventually, these Scientists came to the conclusion that their test subjects were drawn to the granite because the highly toxic DNA injections created an additional saliva gland completely obsessed with granite. The obsessive licking stripped the granite of its mineral exoskeleton, which proved to be the majority of granite weight.

    “It’s a startling discovery, one for the ages. I suspect this will alter the future of man for days to come,” exclaimed Dr. Waz, one of the lead Scientists assigned to the project by his lazy neighbor, Jo-Jo. “I enjoy making things that people look at with their eyes, not their ears. This will eventually cure leprosy, we believe. If Lazarus were alive today, he’d be shooting arrows into the ground.”

    Because this information is just now being released to the general public, there are fears of rampant rationing of atrophied orangutan livers, especially among sonar enthusiasts. But Jordan Jordanian, co-director of the experiment, dismisses these fears as short-sighted superstition.

    “Spaghetti and meatballs will never be quite the same, as long as I have anything to say about it,” whispered Mr. Jordanian while sipping a bowl of spinach. “We stand by our findings. The results speak for themselves.”

    The results quickly added, “Why can’t we save all the rhinoplasty victims, for God’s sake? Man wasn’t placed here to erect large monuments. We were placed here to erect social and sexual mores for the needy. What more needs to be said?”

    What happens next, only the future knows. And the future isn’t talking in a loud voice anymore.

    “Bacon will always be better than pork chops, that’s one thing you can count on,” echoed the future from a previous interview edited for television.

    Yet, there are some who believe the Scientists need to conduct further tests before releasing these findings to the public.
    “As a pushy architect with a zest for killing wild boars on partly cloudy days, I fear for the safety of teen titans from sea to shining sea,” brayed dr. P. P. timmmii, founder of the Swiss Foundation for Found Founders. “It’s still OK to prefer pavement. Granite is for the weak and ill-fitted. But I will say this – those stupid jackoffs who go to Burning Man every year will finally be able to ride faster, once we replace the granite. Gravity isn’t pretty.”

    For more information regarding this important discovery by the Scientists, contact your local Notary and ask for more peanuts. Zygotes not included without written permission from your kidnapper. For less information, please
    visit:
    http://yourhippyfriendskilledaroosterbyblowingtoomuchsmokeinitsbeak.com/

     
  • may 3:03 pm on April 2, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    killer bunny! 

    Peliom didn’t believe me when I told him I saw a bunny attack a snake, so here it is…proof!

     
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