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Diamond is now trying to get permission and funds knock down a wall at the west end of the tunnel. He thinks there may be a perfectly preserved locomotive from the 1800s behind the wall -- or even the missing pages of Booth's diary that list the conspirators involved in Lincoln's death. Next tour, Feb 28th. Think I'll take Ryley.
- linda 2-21-2010 3:52 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

hella
- mark 2-21-2010 3:24 am [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

obama hearts unicorns
- dave 2-19-2010 12:04 am [link] [1 comment]

carl sagan "sings"
- Erin Boberg 2-18-2010 7:16 pm [link] [1 comment]

Can't find the droid thread. But got some more info. I haven't tried it, but a colleague recommended pdanet for tethering (i.e. using the droid as a wireless broadband modem for a computer). Verizon doesn't offer that feature, but this app makes it work.
- mark 2-17-2010 6:27 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

Fucking Norwegians!

Your ambush is fail!
- mark 2-11-2010 3:38 am [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

SNOWHAWK2

Linda spotted this Cooper's Hawk riding out the snow storm in a London Plane Tree across the street from us.

SNOWHAWK

- alex 2-10-2010 8:05 pm [link] [3 comments]

Just another night at Bay Ridge's beloved Salty Dog...
- alex 2-04-2010 12:50 pm [link] [1 comment]

rice fields of Japan
- steve 2-03-2010 4:04 pm [link] [4 comments]



Groundhog by Spirit
- alex 2-02-2010 12:20 pm [link] [add a comment]

Just loaded up Netflix streaming on my PS3. Woah, video on demand. Not overwhelmed with first impression of video quality (who's afraid of Virginia Woolf). They seem to have screwed with the aspect ratio to fill the tv screen. (Adding ... slightly non-linear stretch at that.) In the current vernacular: Fail.

Compression is sub-DVD, but not too bad. AVC (aka h.264) bouncing around between 500 kbps and 2.4 Mbps.
- mark 1-21-2010 11:20 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

Mr. Plimpton's Revenge

A Google Maps Essay, in Which George Plimpton Delivers My Belated and Well-Deserved Comeuppance
- linda 1-21-2010 2:51 am [link] [add a comment]

Worst Analogies ever written in a High School Essay
- linda 1-20-2010 8:19 pm [link] [7 comments]

Speaking of trees and houses, the wind took down a 50' Douglas Fir yesterday. Barely missed the neighbor's house. Tree guy recommends taking out a similar sized Doug Fir before it comes down. Bummer. While they're doing that, they'll deal with a smaller one down in the ravine that's been leaning against other trees since it came down in late season storm last year.
- mark 1-19-2010 6:13 pm [link] [1 comment]

Tree house.
- jim 1-18-2010 3:26 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

Alex, do you think this a real picture of an owl in flight? Pretty cool if so.
- jim 1-18-2010 2:44 am [link] [4 comments]

Oink
- mark 1-16-2010 12:37 am [link] [add a comment]

from Joe Dressner:

We are doing a benefit for Haiti this Saturday at Chambers Street from 4 pm.

We are going to be tasting wines from our portfolio, Kermits, Skurniks, Bowler and Polaner.

We're asking for a $10.00 minimum contribution to Partners in Health -- www.pih.org

Chambers, Polaner and Louis/Dressner will match donations.

This has all been called together hastily but the circumstances require moving quickly.

- linda 1-14-2010 11:44 pm [link] [add a comment]

For those who may have deleted my rarely updated page from the roster:

The wheels of science turn slowly, but the NY State Ornithological Association has finally gotten back issues of The Kingbird online, including 2007 #4 which includes my article on Brooklyn’s Western Reef-Heron. See page 6 and 29 of the pdf.
More on Calvert Vaux Park here; the species list is now over 200.

- alex 1-14-2010 1:58 pm [link] [2 comments]

world's strongest man killed by a van in our neighborhood yesterday.
- linda 1-12-2010 11:24 pm [link] [2 comments]

shit my dad says
- steve 1-09-2010 9:04 pm [link] [2 comments]

what's your type?
- linda 1-09-2010 7:51 pm [link] [add a comment]

Jersey, FTW.
- mark 1-04-2010 9:33 pm [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/12/31waynewayne.html
- mark 1-04-2010 4:46 am [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

Great show in Veracruz when we were there "Magia y Hechiceria"

Its all one Italians collection and spans 100's of years , one piece is a mummied mermaid inc the programs when she showed alive in Rome in the mid 1800's.
- Skinny 1-03-2010 10:15 pm [link] [4 comments]