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New Camera

Lately, every time I wanted a picture for the blog I didn't have my camera, and every time I took a picture with the cell phone, I ended up apologizing for it. So when Woot had a good price on an Casio Exilim camera, I bought it. It arrived today. It's a good size for [...]
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Snow Dog at the Dog Park

Snow Dog We had a good snow sculpture snow last week, and someone made this dog at the dog park. I've been researching cell phones with better cameras, and cameras that fit better in a pocket, and haven't found anything for less than $80, which seems frivolous. But I might get annoyed enough at the [...]
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Marty Sasaki, RIP

Marty from post to his high school facebook page Marty's death apparently happened about six months ago. He stopped posting to his blog on August 13. His recorder teacher, who told me about it, had seen him at her student recital (which may have been the one on September 12) two days before he died. [...]
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Following up on last August’s arrest

I spoke to my neighbor who was arrested last August when a neighbor called the police because his dog was barking. He's still not completely out of the woods, but his lawyer made a motion last month to have the evidence thrown out on the basis that the breakin was improper, and the judge granted [...]
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“Buying” a cell phone

It's time for me to acquire a new cell phone. Actually, I should have gotten one 2 years ago when the current one acquired its intermittent problem. It stops hearing what I say. I can make phone calls, and people can call me, but they all hang up on me because they can't hear me [...]
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More fallout from the Coakley campaign

I had dinner with my friend from the suburbs. She was mad at Coakley for two major items: She was in Mexico for some of the campaign, and the robocalls ended up costing her $50. Coakley is apparently still convinced that the Fells Acre Day Care prosecution was justified.
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When Everything Changed

I enjoyed reading this book by Gail Collins, who's one of the New York Times columnists I read regularly. It's not so much a comprehensive scholarly history, as a collection of the stories about women's issues in the last century. They're well-told. And even if you lived through it all, you've probably forgotten even some [...]
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Google Voice Mail

The feature that inspired me to sign up for Google Voice was the idea of getting voice mails as transcribed emails, instead of having to call and listen to them. I implemented that feature a couple of days ago. Yesterday I was at a party, and mentioned it, and people wanted to test it, so [...]
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Phone and electric outlets

My mother’s house, where I’m staying until tomorrow morning, was buit in 1948. At that time, phones came from the phone company and ran on power that came down the phone line. So nobody thought it was necessary to put a power outlet next to the telephone connection. This started being a problem when my [...]
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Zoom H2

One of the things I would be doing if I weren't writing this is editing the recording of the rehearsal yesterday which we made on my Zoom H2. It's one of the digital gadgets that really changes the way I work as a musician. I've had other recording devices before, but nothing that made it [...]
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