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Following up

By Laura Conrad | Published: April 20, 2009
Spring I mentioned that I'd retired my winter jacket for the Spring on Good Friday. This turns out to have been a couple of days early, as there was a cold, raw wind on Easter Sunday morning. Since then, my lightweight spring jacket has been fine, though. Baseball Immediately after the Opening Day game that [...]
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Following up

By Laura Conrad | Published: April 12, 2009
This is from the spindle; I'm in Fall River celebrating the ancient Slavic fertility rites. Dune I posted a review of the movie Dune a couple of weeks ago, and said I wasn't competent to review the book since I hadn't read it for too many decades. The tor.com blog has recently posted a fairly [...]
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Opening Day

By Laura Conrad | Published: April 8, 2009
There are lots of events that can signal the start of Spring: Astronomical Spring, or the Vernal Equinox,when the Sun is overhead at noon on the Equator. The news media tells you about this, but the actual lengthening of the day has been evident for some time when it happens. This happened a couple of [...]
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Following up

By Laura Conrad | Published: April 5, 2009
Logitech 550 I said in my first post about my Logitech Universal Remote that there wasn't an easy way to program it under Linux. Further googling revealed that it might not be as hard as I thought, since the actual interface is actually through the Logitech web site and you only need the command line [...]
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World Baseball Classic

By Laura Conrad | Published: March 24, 2009
I've spent good chunks of the last three evenings watching the finals and semifinals of the World Baseball Classic (WBC). Here are some random thoughts: Other things being equal, I was rooting for the team with the fewest major leaguers on it. I've always found it offensive that the Major League championship should be called [...]
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