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Daytona Beach

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Daytona Beach

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Cones

Monday, April 5th, 2010

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There’s a Gas Station Up Ahead

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Interview with Bill Watterson 15 years after the comic strip stopped.

Bill Watterson, creator of beloved ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ comic strip looks back with no regrets

Readers became friends with your characters, so understandably, they grieved — and are still grieving — when the strip ended. What would you like to tell them?

This isn’t as hard to understand as people try to make it. By the end of 10 years, I’d said pretty much everything I had come there to say.

It’s always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip’s popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now “grieving” for “Calvin and Hobbes” would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I’d be agreeing with them.

I think some of the reason “Calvin and Hobbes” still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it.

I’ve never regretted stopping when I did.

Bill Watterson Article

Bill Watterson

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Categories : Comic

Watching Football on TV

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

WATCHING FOOTBALL ON TV
by Howard Nemerov

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It used to be only Sunday afternoons,
But people have got more devoted now
And maybe three four times a week retire
To their gloomy living room to sit before
The polished box alive with silver light
And moving shadows, that incessantly
Gives voice, even when pausing for messages.
The colored shadows made of moving light,
The voice that ritually recites the sense
Of what they do, enter a myriad minds.
Down on the field, massed bands perform the anthem
Sung by a soprano invisible elsewhere;
Sometimes a somewhat neutral public prayer
For in the locker rooms already both
Sides have prayed God to give them victory.

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Categories : Books

Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Recipe for Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream

Found this article  on how to make liquid nitrogen ice cream.  Visit your welding supply house for some liquid nitrogen.

•  Mix 1 L or 1 qt each of half and half and heavy whipping cream in a bowl.

• Add a cup of granulated sugar, three eggs, four or five teaspoons of vanilla, and a pound of preserves (strawberry or peach work well).

• After whisking for two to three minutes, add the 10 L of liquid nitrogen directly and stir with the wooden spoon until the mix becomes solid.

• Allow the excess liquid nitrogen to boil off, and serve.

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Categories : Food

5MB Hard Drive

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

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Categories : Technology

Harry Manx in Elgin

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Finally got to see him. Lots off songs played on the Mohan Vena. Very nice concert space at Elgin Community College. We sat at a table with a very nice couple who have roots to the Old Town School of Folk Music. Manx returns to Evanston in March.

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Categories : Music

PHX JAN 28 Tilt Shift Out

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

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PHX JAN 26 Tilt Shift In

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

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Estrella Mountains

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

I believe these are the Estrella Mountains in Phoenix

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