Thursday, February 16th, 2006
This is not the first post of this nature. Anyway, the show included a riff from Jonathan Richman's "Lonely Little Thrift Store" after a segment on Walmart's banking service. Good choice! They've used this riff before, and the album is sold on the Public Radio Music Store. Speaking ...
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
Briefly: I saw The Magnetic Fields perform on Boulder campus. A good band, not rock-n-roll, and they don't seem to like performing, but quite talented. The opening act, Darren Hanlon, was quite good. He reminded me of Jonathan Richman, and when I commented on this to the ...
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Sunday, October 17th, 2004
Well, I disagree with Jonathan Richman (see link above) on one thing: I like Levi's jeans, 550 to be exact. But it took me about a year to realize that just because the tag on the Levi's and Gap jeans have the same waist/inseam dimensions, maybe they actually measure ...
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
I was just walking around my neighborhood figuring out how to solve a problem in my research. Resolved to write out my conclusions, I crossed 35th Street, arms folded, maybe one arm gesturing to myself, and was approaching the corner. I hear a car coming from behind in ...
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2004
Finally, finally, I saw an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm with a happy ending: Season 3: The Grand Opening. Things were looking pretty grim for the opening of Larry David's restaurant, as the chef had Tourette syndrome, he was visible and in ear-shot of the the dining area. ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2004
Speaking of the mid-west, I'm enjoying NPR (gasp!) on the weekends. (Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, whom I saw at the Vancouver airport two summers ago.) This American Life had a segment on dinosaurs,, and how the new theories reveal that T-Rex was a wimp, and it was ...
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Thursday, November 28th, 2002
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.....later in the evening...
Thanksgiving 2002, the evening I learned how to play chess, from my eight-year-old cousin, Jay. Somehow, I'd never learned to play. Simple rules, really, and so much strategy. I found myself thinking, "Gosh, this is like...a chess game, duh." The pivotal ...
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Friday, October 11th, 2002
This morning I went to a farm to pick fruit. Sounds like an odd thing to do, but I bet this is the last summer-like day I'll see this year, and the leaves are looking great. Picking the raspberries was nice, as they have this elastic-like band holding them to ...
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Sunday, August 18th, 2002
Just got back from a wedding in Boston. In the back of my head I was thinking about moving there someday. Sounds like a place with a lot of intellectuals, and two people's unsolicited comments confirmed that. My friend who got married said Phoenix has an anti-intellectal atmosphere, and his ...
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Thursday, August 1st, 2002
I go into my local supermarket and ask if they carry tennis balls. They guy says "probably not", but I should check aisle 10. There, they had full size basketballs, footballs, ping-pong balls, Nerf balls, etc. No tennis balls. Another store had min-volleyballs, something I've never seen before. Go figure. ...
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