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Happy arbitrary date marker, my darlings. Let's all admire the date together now, shall we?

This entry was originally posted at http://chronographia.dreamwidth.org/61724.html and has
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The Antikythera mechanism! No longer shall it languish on the seabed nor shall it be hidden in away in some museum. At long last it has been rebuilt!

OUT OF LEGOS.

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And then my resolve crumbled. Out of a nearly five hundred page book, I should like to point out, I have only culled these little bits. That something at least, isn't it? Consider yourselves lucky to have gotten off so lightly.

Oh sweet Beloved Spare us Sores, thought Mosca. Look at us, we're thieves, and mill burners, and spies, and one of us is ( Read more... )

Everyone seems to have been predicting that this week will be awful in ways too numerous to count. I had more or less brushed off that prediction with my usual I-am-willing-to-be-impressed cynicism. But as I related a thousand little woes to
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A fama had a wall clock, and each week he wound it VERY VERY CAREFULLY. A cronopio passed and noting this, he began to laugh, and went home and invented an artichoke clock, or rather a wild-artichoke clock, for it can and ought to be called both ways ( Read more... )

• 01:08 Crystaline Clockwork: Mr Velocipede has made the Glass Clock of Bad Schüschein, and didn't break the universe! Woo! twurl.nl/ctm08m #

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• 21:57 @ BZedan That movie inspires many people that way. Heck, even just the soundtrack does that to me. #
• 22:08 Chronometry: May I just say that the watch in Stranger Than Fiction is my favorite timekeeping device EVER? Heart. #
• 00:19 Curdling: Please, for Pete's sake, let us not put eensy shards of glass into the lime curd. Please. #
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