three (alive) wildlife sightings at Leavenworth
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[info]laurelfan
  1. 5.14 lizards
  2. duck-like thing passing us on Hwy 2 (at 50mph)
  3. tree swallows

three dead things seen on Hwy 525
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[info]laurelfan
  1. slugs
  2. bunny
  3. hummingbird

three things that are hazardous on a windy bike ride
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[info]laurelfan
1. construction dust
2. plastic bags
3. escaped yellow caution tape

three things that like land and water
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[info]laurelfan
  1. Axolotl
  2. Lungfish
  3. Moose

three things seen last weekend
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[info]laurelfan
1. Orion
2. eagle trying to eat a whole flock of ducks on the Columbia
3. new snow on the columns

I took some picture but they are on film. In fact, they are on an expired disposable camera, so we'll see how that goes...


4. Keechelus Lake with a thin layer of ice
5. rocks arranged in a heart shape

three "things" slime mold can do
socks
[info]laurelfan
  1. solve maze
  2. control robot
  3. remember
Slime mold is really cool stuff even if it is not controlling scary bug robots. In its natural environment it oozes around and eats bacteria. Supposedly it is edible...

three imperfect tools
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[info]laurelfan

  1. new Integer(3);

  2. S3BucketContext *bucket = (S3BucketContext *) ap_pcalloc(p, sizeof(S3BucketContext));

  3. un-straight yardsticks


3 Unix commands I have not used in a while
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[info]laurelfan
  1. zwrite
  2. lpq
  3. ddd
(googling for what these do is left as an exercise for the reader)

3 abandoned things to crawl on/in
socks
[info]laurelfan
  1. nuclear power plant
  2. tunnel (another, another)
  3. bunch of random stuff

3 Stuffed Things
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[info]laurelfan

  1. coffee tables

  2. output

  3. macro micro organisms


3 Ways of Thinking
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[info]laurelfan

  1. homeostatis

  2. already broken

  3. abstraction


Things not to do
socks
[info]laurelfan
Dive into a truck full of fish guts


Capital!
socks
[info]laurelfan
I'm working on a web scraping thing for work, and I stumbled on the NYTimes spider index while I was poking around there. They've got an index of articles starting from 1851:

http://spiderbites.nytimes.com/free_1851/articles_1851_09_00000.html

Hot topics in 1851 included "stomach derangement", fugitive slaves, and scary women:


I have just left the President. He has suffered considerably during the night and morning from an attack of diarrhea and stomach derangement, similar to his attack, recently, at White Sulphur Springs, and brought on by change of water, cold and fatigue. He has declined medical attendance, is now much relieved, and sleeping quietly.
-- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0DE1DE1431E13BBC4851DFBF66838A649FDE


Our readers will be already advised of the occurrence of a lamentable riot and loss of the life at Christiana, Lancaster Co., Pa., on the 9th inst.,--growing out of the attempted capture of two fugitive slaves by their owner.
-- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C02EEDF1430EF33A2575BC1A96F9C946092D7CF

The advent of some eight hundred females, of every gradation of age, condition and personal attractiveness, into this rather out-of-the-way village, has, for the past two days, awakened the liveliest surprise and admiration hereabout. That a formidable "demonstration" on the Woman's Rights question, or a crusade for the Bloomer costume, was to be made, was currently reported;
-- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9405E7DD1431E13BBC4850DFBF66838A649FDE

Hello
socks
[info]laurelfan
Cool!

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