Penguins can be foolhardy critters. I took the car in on Saturday to get it looked at. Nothing serious, just getting an oil change and fixing a broken taillight. I was surprised at how much the taillight was. There are apparently a ton of plastic parts that have to be removed to get to the [...]

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If you have to travel, you should be resigned to situations like this. The early-morning machine maintenance that I was supposed to do Friday was only partially successful. I’ll have to do the rest of it this weeked early in the morning so as not to interfere with things.

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Anticipation can be funnier than action.  This comic shows it. If all goes well, I’ll remember to bring the camera tomorrow, and possibly get a few pictures of a couple of older buildings in Phoenix’s downtown. The older buildings have stonework, arches, balconies, brickwork, and interesting architectural features. Just about everything built after 1950 seems [...]

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The Perry Bible Fellowship delivers the goods. Artists and writers haven’t really explored the idea that there are a large number of comic book super powers that are completely useless in the real world. Making coffee is not one of those. But it can be exploited for comic effect. Wednesday night, more Rock Band at [...]

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There are just too many ways for translation to go wrong. There were hardly any people on the bus on Tuesday. There were only 2 of us on the bus in, and I was the only rider on the bus back. So naturally, on the way back, the driver wanted to talk. He said that [...]

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Sometimes, full knowledge of a device is not essential to getting what you want out of it. The folks at Tesco sent me another $5 off coupon. So I went out and used it, since there are a few things there that are pretty good. There’s a frozen Indian dish, chicken makhani, that’s really good, [...]

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Firefox is a web browser, not a merciless, amoral, hunter/killer/predator. However, people like to anthopomorphize software. (Software hates that.) Not a whole lot to report; Sunday was quiet. I figured out how to use arecord to record sound files from the USB microphone that I got when I purchased Rock Band.  That’s a good thing, [...]

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Really, the plan for Saturday went fairly well, all things considered. The main problem that I had was that I thought that I could make omelettes using a frying pan I’d never used before in an unfamiliar kitchen. I couldn’t get anything to work right. The omelettes ended up turning into scrambled eggs, which were [...]

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This image has nothing at all to do with the text here. Still going through Working. It’s a long book. The part I’m reading now has a set of stories from a crazy hippie who seemed to have a problem with just about every aspect of modern society and a nurse whose attitude to her [...]

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This is just. . . silly. Also, I think that Orthodox Jews are not supposed to wear bright orange clothing. It’s getting “cold” out here. It was about 50 F on Thursday morning. I dressed in a short-sleeved shirt and slacks, as usual, walked out, thought, “Maybe I should get a jacket. Nah, I’m already [...]

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