Thu 28 Sep 2006
Here is a terrific paragraph about the kestrel:
Around 1600, before the word was considered vulgar, the Kestrel was briefly referred to as the “windfucker”. This term soon fell into disrepute, and was replaced by “windhover”, the term also used much later by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in his famous poem The Windhover: To Christ our Lord.
Yay kestrels!
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Mon 25 Sep 2006
So I’ve been playing a lot of Mario Hoops 3 on 3 the last few days. In order to unlock the last character, you need to get a gold trophy in the Rainbow cup. This means you must beat each team in the tourney by at least 200 points. Today, I beat the 4 teams by 270, 200, 218 and 205.
Evidently, they mean beat the teams by more than 200 points. Because it only gave me a silver trophy. And I threw my DS out the window and it killed some neighborhood kid. And so now I’m going to prison, I guess.
I wonder if they’ll let me take my DS.
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Fri 22 Sep 2006
I will be busy tonight at 12:03 a.m. (4:03 UTC), so here’s an early Happy Equinox to you all. The plural of equinox is equinoxes, which I don’t like, so I say “equinoxen” because it makes me giggle.
Have a good weekend, all.
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Thu 21 Sep 2006
If you want to kill a few hours of time in random train-wreck fascination, do a Googe Image Search on “science fair”.
Man.
Man.
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Addendum, 11:06 a.m. – Man, are there ever a lot of kids doing projects on popcorn. Also memory. I guess such experiments are done with materials (popcorn, brains) that most kids have some access to.
Fri 15 Sep 2006
Today is the 29th anniversary of the date of my birth, the first prime numbered birthday I’ve had since I was 23!
I will spend a good portion of this day swiping ID cards through a machine to allow people to access the library after it’s officially locked up for Renovation. Whee-haw.
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