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Recent Updates to Posts
- grab bag vol. 9 — Updated the RSS template for photo gallery pages to only show the pictures once, with their captions if they have them, and look more coherent in the feed.
Recent Comments
- balm — Ali: “They really effed this one up. I am going to write to them with a tone of absolute disgust!”
Recent Comments
- bean hollow — Aaron: “You were at Bean Hollow and you DIDN’T TELL ME!?”
- bean hollow — jg @ Aaron: “This photo and the yet-to-be-posted next ones are from a couple years ago. It is one of my favorite beaches. I have a lot of favorite…”
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- recording — jg: “Well, the camera pooped out after 15 minutes. I suspect it got too hot. The advice is to remove the internal battery and just run on the…”
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- cleveland — Jeff: “I think you misheard or he misspoke. It’s Bentonia MS for the Bentonia Blues Festival. Skip James’ Hard Time Killing Floor Blues is the…”
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- quicksilver — Jeff: “ First sighting of the rare nested footnote in retrograde! ”
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- quicksilver — Cathy Edgett: “Angle of Repose is a great book. I read it years ago and will re-visit now. Thanks for making the connection. Now I need to walk the trail.”
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- quicksilver — Tony: “The mine is a major location in Wallace Stegner’s “Angle of Repose” — the first home that the newlywed main characters share was in the…”
- quicksilver — jg @ Tony: “Maybe I should read that. But I haven’t even finished one book this year, so that might be ambitious. Maybe I should skim the wikipedia…”
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- grab bag vol. 7 — Tony: “The most fascinating thing to me about this post is that I’ve never heard any of these non-facts before reading this.”
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- grab bag vol. 5 — jg @ Corrie: “Thanks for the tip, Corrie! The Watch Duty app was helpful today for figuring out why it smelled smoky! I also used windy.com to confirm the…”
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- sonoma — Aaron: “Ha! I’ve been on that track. A friend of mine had a ‘vette he used to bring up, and he was one of the race officials, so I got to ride in a…”
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- spilt — Aaron: “My son and I share a frustration when The Physical Things do not cooperate. I remember one outburst he had when he was probably 6 or 7. I…”
- spilt — Jeff: “Opening the beef bag over the sink reminded me of the first time I was asked to reserve pasta water. I carefully put the colander over the…”
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- grab bag vol. 6 — jg @ Aaron: “❤️ Your brother’s stuff is so cool.”
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- grab bag vol. 6 — Aaron: “I actually prefer your narratives more than the grab-bags, but this one slapped. The Autoglyphs seem to live in a similar world to my…”
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- backyard — Cathy Edgett: “Me, too!!”
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- backyard — Jan: “Now then, about Ebi’s parents…the jury’s still out…”
- bandoneon — Ali: “Untrue. You own a vehicle that plays cds!”
- grab bag vol. 4 — jg: “I’ve since listened to a few more of Peripheral’s DJ sets; they’re good!”
- bandoneon — Jeff: “How about an amazing flute solo that you’ve never heard unless you’re a flautist.”