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Well, Satan must be happy; I joined Facebook.  I ain't hard to find.  I'm not sure what the advantage of it is, except now I know where I could contact a lot of old classmates, if for some reason I wanted to.  Also, it's a hell of a lot more active right now than livejournal.  Where the hell did everyone go for the weekend?

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Now that Netflix has decided that my Mac, its operating system, and Firefox are acceptable for watching movies instantly, Alexis and I have been watching season 2 of "Heroes." We gave up watching it on television because our reception wasn't good enough to read the subtitles. When they introduced two Spanish-speaking characters, that was pretty ( Read more... )

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Another fantabulous Boston spring day out there, and I finally hoisted my beer-belly laden carcass onto my bike to commute like I used to: in pain. I have two matching bruises where my body contacts the saddle, that I would never notice except they make it impossible to sit on the bike properly. Bike shorts, a gel seat, and maybe a nice soft set ( Read more... )

Alex and I watched the last half of Lake Placid last night--Alex wanted to watch the Betty White part again--and it stands as one of my favorites in the genre. I did notice this time that they not only fired darts into crocodile hide (I've seen people have trouble getting darts to penetrate raccoon hide) but with what seemed like only one dart, ( Read more... )

One last political note until October or so (I almost promise): If superduper Tuesday had been a four-way general election, Obama would have won. He got more total votes than Clinton, and each of them got more votes than all of the combined votes cast for Republicans (according to what I heard on npr this afternoon). To me, that shows that the ( Read more... )

I'm inordinately excited about 10,000 B.C., a new action movie taking place in that year. The trailer includes what appear to be terror birds (or, one supposes, their old-world analogue) and sabre-toothed cats (which are too big, but whatchagonna do) and thousands of cgi mammoths. It's made by the same sick glorious bastard who made Independence ( Read more... )

Our Urban Nature Walk yesterday was great. We walked around Jamaica Pond, and despite a dearth of binoculars, saw and discussed a dozen or so bird species, including one I'd never seen before (and without binoculars I originally IDed as a cedar waxwing). The white squirrel made an appearance, and one of the new participants identified a hedge as ( Read more... )

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