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Confessions of an Interloper
The debate of Northern Virginia vs. the rest of the Commonwealth isn't new, you know. It's been going on for quite a long time- It started to really rumble again of late, with the recent passing and subsequent striking down by the VA Supreme Court of the "Regional Transportation Authority." It's been making enough noise for campaign rhetoric to ( Read more... ) -
Yay for brothers!
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Right, like THAT's ever gonna happen...
Off and on, I've played with doing stock photography as part of my photo-biz. I haven't committed one way or the other, but I did decide a while back, it'd be tourist spots and critters, but no people. What you put up for stock, you're going to have little or no say- maybe even knowledge- of how it's used ( Read more... ) -
Eating Out Table Manners
So Phyllis Richman, former food critic for the Post, has a bit of a diatribe up about plate snatching in restaurants. I probably wouldn't have followed the link, except that when we went out last week for dinner on our anniversary, the diving, bobbing and weaving of hands for plates was so stark, I was a bit taken aback. The part that struck me:
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I read it on the intarwebz, it must be true!
Wikipedia's clearly achieved a certain amount of legitimacy- I'm more and more seeing Wiki cited as a reference for something, without any other correlating references, so I guess of course, if it's in Wikipedia, it must be accurate, right ( Read more... ) -
"Because."
Now that the web's getting better at searching- rhetorical questions fired to the universe at large get answered. Typing "WHY haven't my tomatoes ripened yet?" returns major echoes of the same answer- basically: "They can't ripen when it's over 85 degrees." Hopefully with this weather cooloff, (not to exceed 85 all week) I'll have several ( Read more... ) -
Salmon tomatoes
This week's mega-food-scare brought to you by the nightshade family noble Tomato.
Of course, this means they'll be harder to find anywhere. And the ones in my side yard are still green. So when I've been out running the soaker hose, or weeding, I've been thinking 'red' at them. They're still green.
Today's attack on via science: Hasten the ( Read more... ) -
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