Archives for August, 2004
2004.08.31 (Tue)
BBEdit 8 has been released. Hosannah!
The danger to political dissent is acute
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Let the eagle soar indeed.
2004.08.28 (Sat)
Back in the stream
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Swam back upstream Thursday to Tokyo after a very nice time in Takayama. It’s really a delightful town once you get away from the station and across the river to the older part.
2004.08.23 (Mon)
Some, er … holidays
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Given the forecast, I predict I’ll be doing a lot of thinking in black and white.
2004.08.22 (Sun)
The Scream stolen
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Edvard Munch’s painting, The Scream, has been stolen from its museum in Norway.
Another hammer
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Steve Minutillo on no undo in Safari.
2004.08.21 (Sat)
Imaginative leaps
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Visting Malcolm Gladwell’s site for the first time in a while I was dismayed to see no new articles from The New Yorker (with any luck it’s because he’s busy writing a new book). So I started poking around looking for something to read and came across links to older pieces he’d done for Slate.
King of the World #2
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When I’m king of the world — and that day is coming — residential air-conditioning will be banned.
2004.08.20 (Fri)
Crop failure
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The bamboo continues to do well but given the overall success rate this year I wouldn’t be surprised to wake up one morning and find a panda out there eating it.
Man on the train coming home yesterday
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Thoughts scudding across his face like clouds
Carl Mydans dies
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Life photographer Carl Mydans dies at 97
2004.08.19 (Thu)
Thalassa! Thalassa!
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I was dumbstruck tonight when I realised I couldn’t remember the last time I’d swum in salt water.
2004.08.18 (Wed)
Hats are back
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Now we just need the return of hat checks so we have somewhere to put them when we go out.
2004.08.16 (Mon)
Thorpe vs. Phelps
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Indeed, the men’s 200m freestyle final tonight is going to be quite intense.
2004.08.15 (Sun)
Self-mapping
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In the future, the environment will be self-mapping.
…dredging in futility our own parched wells of consciousness in the baking heat.
Nagoya subways to disable cell phone service
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Public convenience vs. social responsibility is hard to talk about, tricky to finesse, and mighty difficult to legislate. Public health issues are easier to deal with.
2004.08.14 (Sat)
Czeslaw Milosz dead at 93
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Dies at his home in Krakow surrounded by family.
2004.08.11 (Wed)
Turkmen leader orders ice palace
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Monica Whitlock’s story is a small comic masterpice
2004.08.08 (Sun)
Guilloche
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It seems the word “guilloche” has almost as many permutations as the thing it describes
Checkpoint: let the gasbagging begin
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I think I’m going to stop reading about this book. My copy’s on its way.
2004.08.07 (Sat)
Ghost house
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Get up from your desk and look it from across the room, then come back close and see how the detail in the bricks resolves.
2004.08.05 (Thu)
Telephone lines and ocean liners
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A Modotti photograph of telephone lines reminds me of Cassandre’s Normandie but predates it by a decade.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1908-2004
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Cartier-Bresson has died in France aged 95.
2004.08.02 (Mon)
Soba-ya in Yoga
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At least I think it’s a soba-ya. They may have retired and now it’s just a house; I haven’t seen it open the last few times I’ve been through Yoga.
King of the World #1
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Punishments will be strict
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