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Okay, seriously now, what the hell

Monday, December 11th, 2006

go to http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/apocalypto/teaser_large.html Scroll forward to about the point featured in this picture: maneuver frame by frame forward until you reach this frame: Marvel. Continue scrolling forward if you want to; at this point it won’t matter. I mean, putting a single frame easter egg of yourself into your own movie trailer is fine — [...]

Home again, Home again

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

… spent the weekend down in Maryland, just outside of D.C. and can safely report that it’s freakin’ hot down there. As to the Whimsy Problem, I realized at the last minute that I’d brought back Indian formalwear from my trip to Bangalore, two (three?) years ago, and had never had such a great chance [...]

Fireworks

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

John and Mike hosted a 4th-of-July party for our neighbors on Bean Road. We grilled everything in sight, dodged bugs, and socialized with people we hadn’t met before. It was a smashing success. There were a ton of fireworks to set off, and John discovered a tomato freak-of-nature, which Larissa documented. Pyrotechnics and an omen [...]

It’s like living next door to the killing fields some days, I swear.

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Lucy seemed pretty confident that if the new diversion gave her any trouble, she could just bat some sense into it with her paws. And you know what? She was totally right. Sphinx-like, Lucy then prepared to ask the snake a convoluted question involving a mysterious animal who walks on different legs at different times [...]

Guess who’s coming to dinner

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

DSC_3248.JPG While we were sitting and talking at dinner tonight, Kate’s mom, Sally, suddenly said “Oh my god, the moose!” My camera was handy, thankfully, and we managed to open the creaky front door and take some pictures before the adolescent male moose continued his sunset cruise. While I crept outside to take pictures, Carlos [...]