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nobody@vox.com(mir) — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:38:58 -0700

I picked this name because it was all I could think of off the top of my head.I've since thought better of it and so this little shindig is moving down the hall to porkfish.vox.com. Thank you Stephan for introducing me to the word "porkfish."

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QotD: Is This Thing On?

nobody@vox.com(mir) — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:30:17 -0700

When was the last time you had to speak in front of a group? How did you feel? I speakin front of small groups on a pretty regular basis as we bring groups of people through our facility fairly often. SPeaking in front of groups in more formal ...

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Salmon Fishing

nobody@vox.com(mir) — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 19:24:00 -0700

Yesterday I went salmon fishing in Puget Sound for the first time. I've dropped a line once before but this was the first purposeful trip for fishing. I went with my boss and a couple of other coworkers, one of whom owns a nice little 18 foo...

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QotD: Desktop Show and Tell

nobody@vox.com(mir) — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:45:00 -0700

What is your current computer desktop image? Let's see it! I just ran across this image yesterday, actually, in the midst of a truly gorgeous set of photos by a fellow in Norway.

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Taj Mahal - Recycled Blues and Other Related Stuff

nobody@vox.com(mir) — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:04:32 -0700

I've been having some excellent luck record-hunting lately. Too excellent for my wallet but I do it anyway. This record is positively fantastic. It's really vibrant and full of life and energy. It also features a set of very young Pointer Si...

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Yummy

nobody@vox.com(mir) — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:23:27 -0700

Last night I made a rather lovely dinner for Lisa. It started with poking around Pike Place Market to see what looked particularly tempting and wound up as follows. Prosciutto-wrapped melon to start. Specifically, very good cantaloupe (not tha...

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QotD: Can you hear me now?

nobody@vox.com(mir) — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:13:50 -0700

What's your cell phone's ringtone? What made you pick it? For now it's a little midi file of someslice of classical music. I will change it at some point. I was using it as my alarm as well until I decided that it was a bit too peppy. My previo...

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Point Me at the Sky

nobody@vox.com(mir) — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:33:09 -0700

While making dinner last night I was listening to the first cd of a 4 disc Pink Floyd retrospective called Total Eclipse. I got it many years ago and it attempts to use unreleased (live, studio, etc) versions of as much of the music as possibl...

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QotD: Weekend Wrap-Up

nobody@vox.com(mir) — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:34:15 -0700

What did you do this weekend? This weekend has (like the last two) been all about quality time with a new friend. Lots of Scrabble and lounging, a bit of media (Eddie Izzard: Glorious, Baraka and some Sealab). Now we're cooking up dinner: pasta ...

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