Laurel

Untitled

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:57:41 GMT

http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Bells-Complete-Dehydrator-Cookbook/dp/0688130240

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three (alive) wildlife sightings at Leavenworth

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:12:33 GMT

5.14 lizards
duck-like thing passing us on Hwy 2 (at 50mph)
tree swallows

three dead things seen on Hwy 525

Mon, 04 May 2009 19:09:50 GMT

slugs
bunny
hummingbird

three things that are hazardous on a windy bike ride

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:59:30 GMT

1. construction dust
2. plastic bags
3. escaped yellow caution tape

three things that like land and water

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:42:41 GMT

three things seen last weekend

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:51:40 GMT

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

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:27:29 GMT

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

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:25:28 GMT

new Integer(3);

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

un-straight yardsticks

3 Unix commands I have not used in a while

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:12:20 GMT

zwrite
lpq
ddd

(googling for what these do is left as an exercise for the reader)

3 abandoned things to crawl on/in

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:36:03 GMT

3 Stuffed Things

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:32:30 GMT

coffee tables

output

macro micro organisms

3 Ways of Thinking

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:29:31 GMT

homeostatis

already broken

abstraction

Things not to do

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:48:16 GMT

Dive into a truck full of fish guts

Capital!

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:38:17 GMT

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

Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:10:00 GMT

Cool!