wanted: master Lego model builder

Wired News:

Starting Oct. 30, LegoLand, located in Carlsbad, California, will kick off its search at the Art Institute of California – San Diego. Applicants will be given 2,000 Legos and 45 minutes to impress a panel of judges.

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shout-out

I’ve recently been linked by several strangers or new acquaintances: How What Why; Reflections in d minor; The Wood Dragon.

Update 2006: Reflections in d minor moved here.

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if it swims like . . .

Ducks’ odyssey nears end

A consignment of thousands of rubber ducks is expected to wash up any day on the coast of New England – after more than a decade at sea.

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housekeeping

Since my host upgraded its version of Apache, visitors to my blog archives (most of whom come from searches) have seen raw HTML rather than cooked webpages, because the filenames don’t end in .htm(l). So I’ve republished the archives (now daily, for speed’s sake, rather than weekly or monthly) with new names, and corrected the internal links to match. (I’ve even repaired a lot of broken links to Blogspot.)

Maybe someday I’ll learn enough to intercept requests for the old archives and translate them.

This became moot a year later when I converted from Blogger to WordPress.

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get ’em while they’re hot

Definitive returns of last week’s election in California. Link from Virginia Postrel.

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a day on the job

Someone came by ‘my’ desk and said, “Oh, you’re listening to music!
I mean you’re listening to good music. That’s Cohen, isn’t it?”

Pause. “I don’t know of a composer named Cohen.”

“Oh. Then it’s . . .” Long pause. “Who is it?”

“Gershwin.”

“Oh of course. There is a Cohen, though, who wrote that cowboy thing?”

Pause. “Are you thinking of [Aaron] Copland?” [spelling corrected 2006]

Much later it occurred to me that (if memory serves) the original Aaron was the first kohen.

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duelling fantasists

Forager 23: J.R.R. Tolkien vs. Robert E. Howard. (Linked by Justin Slotman)

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