bow to your corner

Kennita Watson has for ages been nudging members of our circle to try square-dancing with Stanford Quads, and this evening I went.

My feet gave out early; though I wore my comfy shoes, I’m evidently not accustomed to making so many turns. I’ll have to get better arch supports.

A startling treat: I was quickly recognized by June Genis, whom I hadn’t seen since (or before) she ran for Senate in 1992 against Barbara Boxer. We hit it off like old pals. She said “this is the most Libertarian square dance group in the county” — which surely ain’t saying much, but it was indeed pretty obvious for those in the know, with Mary Gingell and Joe Dehn also on hand.

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translation wanted

Who can tell me what kuvia means in Finnish?

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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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