Archive for December, 2005
Saturday, December 31st, 2005
Auld Lang Syne
In an email from my friend Cyrus:
Hey Joe! Attached are the lyrics for the song that traditionally
gets sung tonight. Are you familiar with them? I understand
that they are by the a Scot, Robert Burns. In the first
paragraph, he asks rhetorically if old friends and times should
be forgotten. The answer, in [...]
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Friday, December 30th, 2005
That’s a lotta lava
CNN.com - Mount St. Helens releasing lava at astonishing pace - Dec 30, 2005:
Since then, the mountain has squeezed out about 102 million cubic yards of lava, more in 15 months than in the six years after the eruption.
That’s around 5300 times the size of Ayers Rock/Mount Uluru. When MSH exploded in 1980, it throw [...]
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
My little bit of Silly Putty has nothing on this [via Boing Boing]
What 250 lbs of Silly Putty looks like:
Mark Frauenfelder:
Clay Bavor, a product manager at Google, bought an eighth of a ton of Silly Putty and put it into one huge pile on his desk. After taking the photo above, he attempted to break the Silly Putty into chunks to distribute it to his friends. It [...]
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Monday, December 26th, 2005
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
A real tree!
Poor Libby Pettit! She was forced to move to the New York City because she was too successful for Houston, and her Christmas tree order got sent to her old address instead of her new digs in Manhattan. I, being the dutiful former neighbor, rescued the tree from her previous porch, and with the [...]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
Joe’s Next Gig
I’m going to be in Main Street Theater’s production of George & Ira Gershwin’s Pardon My English, running December 29-January 22 at the Chelsea Market location. There is a preview show on December 28, and a special performance on New Year’s Eve.
Next, I’ll be directing the Rice Light Opera Society’s production of [...]
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Friday, December 16th, 2005
Free Podcast of A Christmas Carol
Penguin Books Ltd is offering Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, as read by Geoffrey Palmer, for free in five installments. You can subscribe here.
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
Congress getting its priorities wrong example #3,454,682
ESPN.com - Congress to look into ‘deeply flawed’ BCS system
While I agree that the BCS is deeply flawed, there is no earthly reason why Congress should be wasting time on this.