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9407 – Friday

Hell of a long day at work, but BHK and I started to make her Birthday weekend roll with dinner out at Saigon Palace for dinner. We’d never been there before, so it was a bit of an adventure… Our traveler’s luck served us well this time:

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The place was pretty empty for a Friday night… food was delicious and our servers very attentive and friendly. I’ll happily go back there again and again – lots of veggie goodies to try, and the Pho will be super come colder months ahead. (I got the bird’s nest, bhk got the lemon tofu. I think she won, but mine was mighty tasty, too!)

Hopefully this puts us on a solid roll toward Birthday goodness!



Ray Bradbury is 88! Happy birthday, one time great writer, now crotchety old guy! Dandelion Wine is still my one of my all-time faves. Thanks for that… I wouldn’t have a lime-vanilla ice, otherwise.



In an online survey, 42 percent of Internet users admitted to logging into other people’s email and social networking accounts without their knowledge. The poll doesn’t ask if passwords were found, granted, or stolen — which would make for further interesting results. The write-up summarizing the results defines the respondents as part of an “educated tech-readership” and questions the ethics of logging onto someone else’s account, and whether those differ depending on the person and relationship.”



1 year ago – local pictures of a local house coming down and Larry on his riding mower, stuffed peppers, Mrs. Pollifax – Spy, Quotes, Tired

2 years ago – tweaking web page, radioactive volcanoes?, wooley imbibe, venture bros, voice post burgers

3 years ago – forgotten nightmares, laughing puppets, sickies, gov rss feeds, paycheck to paycheck, audio hidden, i loves me some waffles, music, otr, 25 food hacks, smarts

4 years ago – no dwarf dice, swap shop instead, I live in a pulp universe, walkabout pictures, froggies, gorillas in comics, email post – image host

5 years ago – ACIM invites me back, new sound card, “don’t go there” is gone, DSA, keywords, gil gerard ages, commanding my minions, publix cancels home delivery

6 years ago – run tel dat, newt playing, gaming, cow teeth, trivia cookies!

7 years ago – ichnology, phantom blot, no-so-evil news

8 years ago – Newtcam, replicating interests Geotarget

9406 thursday

Tasty dinner of stir-fried veggies on more naan bread, vegetarian meatloaf (mostly garden eggplant) topped with sauce saved from our selby pickup! Super good, and uber-filling.

Dessert was a treat of choco-chip cookies!

BHK’s birthday weekend starts tomorrow, though her birthday is on Monday – I took the day off for us to play! … I think we’ll have a grand time!



Pictures from Last weekend. Larry’s Birthday, tigger talking, and us all walking on the boardwalk. As ever, clicken to embiggen.

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Me with my standard popeye sun-reduction look, Tigger gabbing some more, and a BHK odd-shot

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Tigger talking, moon over the bay
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Pirate ship playhouse at the bay, bhk, me, and Chesapeake beach
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Laryy & Chris, Moonrise, Larry and Tigger
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Adam!

This last one isn’t by us, but by another local named “this and that” on flickr… you can see what a difference better resolution and composition can make!

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Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few higher mammals. It had been thought only four species of apes, bottlenose dolphins, and Asian elephants shared the human ability to recognize their own bodies in a mirror. But German scientists reported on Tuesday that magpies, a species with a brain structure very different from mammals, could also identify themselves. It had been thought that the neocortex brain area found in mammals was crucial to self-recognition. Yet birds, which last shared a common ancestor with mammals 300 million years ago, don’t have a neocortex, suggesting that higher cognitive skills can develop in other ways.



I had no idea that “the shocker” (description may be NSFW) had a name at all.. I always knew it as er…, um…  “dos en el color de rosa, uno en el hedor”. (Pardon the terrible translation.) I’m more of a fan of the Moutza as a rude gesture.



1 year ago – saw a bird of prey, heavy work week, icehouse game java, Luke / tacos / in-laws, sleepy, chessboard serial killer

2 years ago
– enthused, quizzies, cydonia vid, grab old comics

3 years ago – jenjen, rocko, more hee-haw, work-dream, indoor remote control flier, a little sick, cool song parts, religion facts

4 years ago – bro fade, there lives again, walkabout, spell of hoggoth

5 years ago – personality profile for work, seasonal pages, hippos and rhinos, lifesavers changes flavors, Pam Confirmation, guest map, vamp game, chat

6 years ago – grove scandal, togas, tulip head, haiku

7 years ago – Harvard classics, imprecation, Child’s Christmas in Wales, Love, great moment from Oz, Spoon

8 years ago – Put April on a bus for home, Gaming group with Josh Marquart and the Hunters, can you picture that Geotarget