Try how fast it flies when you carve out writing time and then waste it doing other things. I’m so serious. Google something for research. Bam! Twenty minutes, gone in a heartbeat. Go searching for the right word and get distracted. Bam! You just burned through seventeen minutes and didn’t even see it going. Writing […]
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I use this icon because that’s how it felt–as if I were invisible. The only Apple Store around is in a very expensive area. The I’ve lived here twenty years and never been near it-type expensive. It’s in a gorgeous shopping center with lovely landscaping including waterfalls (in the desert, remember), fountains, and real trees.
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The other day when I had no brain at all (no jokes about how often that happens, please!) but I didn’t want to waste any more of my summer in unproductivity, I addressed all those broken posts from *cough* years ago when I moved my blog onto wordpress. I’ve been blogging for eight years, since
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Tonight I made an icon. I like it lots. I don’t usually choose to write on my person’s face, but I felt it fit this one. And the second line–I was looking for a font that looked like a scream, but this one actually works better. I ended up walking the line between art *snerks
Quoting from this site: East Africa’s prolonged drought has dried up rivers in Tanzania and left some 3.7m people on the verge of starvation, with much of the country experiencing daytime power cuts as hydroelectric plants are short of water. You haven’t even heard about this, have you? It wasn’t in any of the headlines
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You’ve heard of the teacher who made a classroom comparison between President Bush’s State of the Union address and speeches made by Adolf Hitler? Or actually, you’ve probably heard, “Teacher compares Bush to Hitler” and not much more. That was all I got, until I went looking. Quoting from this site: On the recording, Bennish
Quoting from this site: In the abstract for their presentation to the 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center summarized the implant in the following way: NUWC is developing a fish tag whose goal is attaining behavior control of host animals via neural implants. This talk discusses a shark tag