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Monthly Archives: June 2005

summer of the kayak

27 June 2005

Saturday a group of us rented kayaks and canoes from a little shack on the Charles River. We began just beyond the Elliot bridge and went down to the lagoon by the Esplanade, where we had a picnic lunch and relaxed for a while. Then we went through the little channel there back [...]

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musings the morning after the morning after

13 June 2005

I know you’re not supposed to swallow toothpaste — it says to call poison control if you eat a lot of it — but swallowing some of it is simply unavoidable. So my question is: how much toothpaste do you think a person swallows in a lifetime? Quarts? Gallons? They need [...]

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not many kentites are fans of the former governor

11 June 2005

Boing boing links to an interview with Devo’s Jerry Casale in which he talks about the Kent State shootings.

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interior shots

8 June 2005

Dad writes:

Lot of activity, just not much to photograph. They put in the gas line, drilled the water well, insulated the house, and put up the drywall. Now they’re taping and sanding it. Here’s some interior pics with the drywall up.
Interestingly, the skylight in the master bath seems oriented so that around the longest day [...]

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i would be like, “hello!”

8 June 2005

Summer’s here (finally). Is there anything better than sitting on your porch, enjoying a beer, watching a summer thunderstorm?

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come on in, come to the place where fun never ends

7 June 2005

When I was a kid, I loved Garfield. I had a Garfield stuffed animal which had a reversible head: one side was a big grin, and the other side was his “blah” lazy face. I got it when I had my tonsils out when I was six or seven, and I rotated the [...]

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