tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66450942012-02-02T16:32:19.824-05:00Blog land rules...Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11522913457942999355noreply@blogger.comBlogger1291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645094.post-44131807175400402652012-02-02T16:32:00.003-05:002012-02-02T16:32:19.838-05:00

This morning, I noticed an improved highway billboard on Route 91 South in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was between exits 21 and 20 and visible from North King Street. It's 4:30pm now and the message is gone. The billboard again reads that the space is available for rent. Only yesterday an Occupy Wall Street biodiesel bus visited our city.

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Back when my daughter was much younger, I'd "give her a dream" to launch her off to sleep. February 28, 2006 You close your eyes and you are looking for your dream. You walk over a hill. No dream. Through the woods. No dream. Down to the stream. You look in the water for the dream. You follow the stream to a waterfall and look under the waterfall. Still no dream. You follow the stream to a

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When my daughter was young, I would make up stories for her. Later these became what we called "dreams" that I would give her to launch her on her way to sleep. "Give me a dream," she would say. I never did follow up to see if she actually had these dreams, but they made for a good enough end of a day for her. Afterwards I could close her door and tiptoe back upstairs to end my day. When she was

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A plastic tarp and pile of snow on the firewood has lost its charm, so I recently built a shelter for our firewood. It's most free-standing, so it can be removed if we need to. I didn't want to spend $200+ to buy something nifty like corrugated plastic for the roof, so I used discarded materials from work - plastic coated printed Gatorboard ™. If it leaks a little, it will be better than a

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Some recent sightings. Exhibit A, a pileated woodpecker cleaning one of our tall oaks. Exibit B, this year we get regular visits from a pair of ruby-throated hummingbirds. They love the sugar water I put out (4 to 1 water/sugar) and visit every 15 minutes during the day. It's right outside our kitchen window. The dude hummingbird has the ruby throat, while the babe hummingbird does not.

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Today I put up the Bat House I built last year. It's cedar and has 3 chambers. Multi-chambered houses are like apartment buildings, so there is potential to get more occupants. (They pay their rent in eating mosquitoes and producing guano.) According to various websites, the house should be mounted over 15 feet high on a wall or chimney which gets at least 8 hours of sunlight. Bats definitely

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Sasha and I finally did something in New Haven, Connecticut. We ate at the infamous Louis' Lunch. Louis' (pronounced Louie's) is the arguably the first place on earth to serve hamburgers. We first sat at the space left at counter and later moved to a teeny booth. It took some time to prepare our meal, so we had time to take it all in.  Here is a very authentic video on the Louis' experience. It

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This week at City School was in two-parts. We had a tour of the Northampton Water Treatment plant which I have already written about. Then we all sat down and learned some of what the Northampton Department Of Public Works does and how they operate and more than that. That was last Spring.We heard about Sustainability, an overview of the DPW, about Wastewater, Highways, and Solid waste. As usual,

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Welcome to another - actually this was last - class in City School. This week we had a tour of NCTV. (Dear Reader, please note that this tour actually took place last Spring, but only now am I documenting it.) What is NCTV? NCTV Studio NCTV is Nothampton Community Television. Our so-called public-access cable TV service. In fact, it is at times one of the big reasons my family is willing to

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I have been really remiss in not updating the last few weeks of City School. [Note, I wrote most of this months ago.] So here goes with a quick dump. Less thorough, but since I'm not paid to do this, you get a less complete product. Perhaps I'll revisit this entry and edit it when I get a chance. Last week, we visited Dispatch (also known as 9-1-1) as well as the Fire Department. This week we

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Recently I visited The Bunker. Built into the side of Bare Mountain in Amherst, Massachusetts before I was born. It was built for the Cold War, and housed a communications center for Strategic Air Command. Reportedly it had something to do with the Cuban Missile Crisis, an event near and dear to my heart. Really. And now it is owned by Amherst College. It houses archives and old books from the

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I grew some grass for our cat Chance at work. She's a complete indoor cat, so doesn't see the real stuff too often unless I grow some. She sometimes makes a mess of my houseplants by chewing on them. My co-worker and friend Susan joined in to grow a pot for her cat Bettie. I had some seed packets which were meant for cats, so reading the contents I improvised a seed mix of rye grass (regular lawn

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Wildlife in the Adirondacks.

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AT&T has been airing commercials during American Idol promoting their wireless coverage. They feature the world being enveloped in golden cloth, not unlike - OK, exactly like, the works of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. They are famous for environmental installations in huge proportions, where they wrap many things including land and architecture. (Jeane-Claude died last year.) Notably, in

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Welcome. By this point, you have been following my exploits in City School. Congratulations, you've made it to one of the best classes yet. If you check out last week's class (or any other for that matter) right near the beginning, you will see that I explain what Northampton City School is all about. So let's dig in. This week's class covers the Northampton Fire Department and Dispatch. I've

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Welcome to a new class at Northampton City School. Last week, we learned about Planning and Development. This week in City School we learn about the Northampton Police department. Hopefully, for your sake, I have learned my lesson and will finally err on the side of brevity. Since Police is a topic many of us think we know about, I may be able to skip some information. You will soon find

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Yin and yang. Long term, short term. Planning and zoning. Development and preservation. Building and economic development. Keep, take, and give. This week in City School we hear from the town planner and the head of economic development. This class was our most relaxed one yet, because we only heard from two people and only two departments, and because this class was more like a discussion. Whew

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We recently had some good chicken at a local Chinese restaurant, and I was wondering what was in it. This restaurant is unusual in that it has a separate 'good' menu where you can order their Hong Kong style food. The chicken tasted like it had Five-Spice Powder in it. I know this because we have some at home. Now what are those 5 spices? When I got home, I went to our spice cabinet, took out

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Apologies, I'm back from a small hiatus. I did not go anywhere, but I've been remiss in my bloggerly duties regarding City Schools. Northampton City Schools, if you haven't learned by now, is where regular citizens learn about the workings of our small city. Last time we heard about the schools. Previously, we learned about things like the Health Department and many other facets of our city

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It's my intention to maintain the definitive list of movies that take place, are supposed to take place, or are about Long Island, New York. (That would be the part of Long Island which is not located in New York City.) I'll try to keep this up to date, but please do not hesitate to recommend additions and changes by posting to the comments area. Films 3 Backyards (Eric Mendelsohn, 2010) [IMDB]

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We saw Hapa tonight and Hula. Here's a video. No, we weren't at this show.

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The short film Logorama won an Academy Award (Oscar) this past Sunday. I found it on the web Monday. It was taken down by today, but can be found here. I assume it is copyright that keeps it offline, but please tell me where you will find a venue to legitimately see this film. I'm not sure you can buy it or rent it yet. You must check it out before it disappears again. It's a 16 minute

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I have been attending City School here in Northampton, Massachusetts. City School is a unique program where ordinary citizens like me learn the workings of local municipal government. I realize that it has been a while since I've updated you. In the interim we had two snow days and one class where we learned about public education which I will share with you shortly. When local government calls

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Once again, the Spouse urges me to blog. Even while the dead remained uncounted and unburied, Pat Robertson's claimed that Haiti made a "pact with the Devil", and that they continue to pay for it with their history of poverty and most recently with the devastation caused by last month's earthquake. His pact presumably allowed them independence in 1804. If you search for 'devil pact' on Google

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My spouse pointed out a blog entry talking about over-analysis of Obama's speeches. Fox news is now tracking the frequency of the use of the word "I" in speeches by President Obama. I think I use "I" in many of my sentences, but I'm just me and allowed my opinion of myself. And of course everyone who has read a resume or been taught anything about parenting and civil and civic discourse has

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We're back again for another edition of City School where We The People get to learn from those who represent, work, or volunteer for us in city government. We are at Week 3 in a 10 week course in municipal civics. Last week, we learned about some of the Arts, Culture, Fun, and the Health Department. This week, we learn about resources for special populations in the city of Northampton,

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I had another exciting week at City School, here in Northampton, Massachusetts. We meet one night a week, and usually in a mostly vacant city building. As you might guess, in the middle of winter they can be a little cold. Especially, if it's one of our two libraries that's not open on Wednesdays and so probably not heated very much. If you haven't heard, City School, is a home-grown program

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City School - A Great Idea I expect to attend all 10 weeks of City School here in Northampton, Massachusetts. You may ask, what, pray tell, is City School? To give you an intro, please see my previous post. To summarize and save you time (although my ego would appreciate it if you read that post and send me your comments or post them at the bottom of my blog or link directly to my blog from your

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OK, I've been thinking about the government. I've had for me what is becoming a typical convergence of events. Consider this: As you know, I moved to Massachusetts a few years ago, a state (or commonwealth as we call it here) where some of the seediest of seeds of our nation were first sown. This week my step-father-in-law just completed and published a book (now available as a PDF on CD). His

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Yesterday I read a story in the New York Times, and much to my surprise, I found a new word: Stooper. A Stooper is a culler, a gatherer, a dumpster-diver. A person who separates the wheat from the chaff, although in this case the odds are against them, since there is mostly chaff here. The kind of Stooper that the Times writes about spends his days on the floor of the OTB going through spent

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I don't own an iPhone. I've been paying AT&T oodles for years and have reported more than once that their service is spotty in my own home. But it seems that AT&T only cares about iPhone users. They recently released an app so that iPhone users can tell them where their service is weak. Of course, the puzzle is how to actually use their network to report network problems when that same network

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I hadn't looked at Geni in a while, but when I first used it, it was an awesome site to build your family tree - if you care about such things. It recently notified me that there are other family trees out there with my relatives on it, but they now charge monthly for me to find out more. Other features they added were statistics on your family - average life expectancy (59 male, 63 female for my

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The Connecticut River is the longest river in New England. It's beatiful as it winds its way down to the Long Island sound. Here are some photos taken by me last weekend from the air.

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The great director Cecil B. DeMille was born nearby in the Hilltowns. Someone in Ashfield unearthed this factoid a few years ago and decided to honor him with a film festival. Since he only "resided" in the town for the first few days of his life, they chose to limit all the films to 3 minute shorts to compensate. Pictured here is the actual award to honor the winner.

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Yup, in case you hate the price of gas and the place where you live, then here's a real lousy reason to move near me.This was taken nearby on October 10. The price is about 20¢ higher today which is still pretty low.

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I came across 157 this morning on Wikipedia.157 is the number equal to 100 + 50 + 7, following 156 and preceding 158.Juicy information about this number with, if you notice, links to 7, 50, 100, 156, 158.Yup, you guessed it, just about every fairly low common integer has a page on Wikipedia. Some were created automatically - references in several other entries have created de-facto index pages.

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MS CRM 4.0 Query to return all business unit id GUIDs and names:SELECT businessunitid, nameFROM dbo.FilteredBusinessUnit BU

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www.costofwar.com

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The morning after a winter snowfall, we had a visitor. Clearly not playing possum.

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Click for larger image.

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I was recently given this list at my workplace. No, not a list of things that happen to Peter Pan and his buddies. This is a serious list of serious occurrences. Meanwhile, since they happen, they are really Rarely Events. Also, if you look at each event, you would probably think that you don't need the three rights, since, for instance, you probably shouldn't be charged for having the wrong

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I know I'm not Mr. Financial News, but just now I noticed that the Dow Jones is down. Down low. Down so low it's not only back where it was in 2003, it's down as low as it was in 2002, and as it was soon after 9/11. It's even as low as it was in 1998 - 10 years ago. If that doesn't quite make sense, you can look at a chart of the Dow over time and see that it goes up, it goes down. It tanked

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This is from Miriam Webster. Nonpareil: noun Date: 1593 an individual of unequaled excellence : paragon a small flat disk of chocolate covered with white sugar pellets b: sugar in small pellets of various colors Not a bad name for a candy!

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UPDATE: As of now (12/21/2008), this amazing fix described below no longer does the trick. XP SP3 is completely flaky once again. Ugggg!!! (Banging head against wall.) ------------------- Microsoft continues to update and support Windows XP, fortunately. One way to install Windows XP SP3, is to let your windows updates do it the old-fashioned way. Then one day your computer will wake up and

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Any of these will make your jaw drop.Courtesy of Project Censored. #1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation# 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTALeaders of Canada, the US, and Mexico have been meeting to secretly expand the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with “deep integration” of a more militarized tri-national Homeland Security force.

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The presumably outgoing Department of Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has decided to out-do James Watt. He recently announced changes which undermine the Endangered Species Act.According to the Center For Biological Diversity the new regulations would:- Exempt thousands of federal activities from review under the Endangered Species Act;- Eliminate checks and balances of independent

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My wife's magazine, Wondertime, is on sale again at Amazon. You can subscribe for only $5 - at least for now. If you are a parent of a newborn to 10 or 12 year old, it's worth a read.Wondertime's website is here.Amazon's sale is here. (Click on the 'Sale' link in the middle of the page.)

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Happy OneWeb Day to you.Happy OneWeb Day to you.Happy OneWeb to the internet.Happy OneWeb Day to you!

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Last week, the Bush administration proposed a $700 Billion bailout to the formerly-free market.Will this help banks? Help business? Help you? Who will get a cut? You probably already know.Here's how it will be allocated. (Vegetarians watch-out!)

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This is how the American Dream (AD) has fared over ten years.American Dream reality is in the top chart.American Dream concern is in the bottom chart.Sorry, I cannot predict the future.

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Some of you know that I volunteer at the Center for Ecological Technology.Part of their work is a ReStore located in Springfield which does deconstruction. Decon is when a building is taken apart and the pieces are reused or recycled - as opposed to demolition where a building is demolished and what's left ends up in a dumpster where perhaps, if we're lucky, only part of it might be recycled. The

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Here's an excerpt from another story in our local paper which might give you a sense of Northampton, Massachusetts.The 'humane micropolis'Northampton has evolved on its own termsFrom this perspective, Northampton may be described as truly a "Humane Micropolis"- a humane metropolis writ small. It is blessed of course with a congenial physical setting, a diverse housing stock, a broad-based economy

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Here's a nice local story.A wedding ceremony and reception for the books By MARY CAREYStaff WriterMonday, September 8, 2008Photo: GORDON DANIELSNewlyweds Priscilla Miner and Adam Novitt, left, enjoy their reception in the Forbes Library Reading Room on Sunday.PELHAM - Adam Novitt met Priscilla Miner because she was reading an

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I just got this bulletin from Commercial Alert. KVVU is doing product placement during newscasts. Shame, shame.Just click on the link below to tell KVVU what you think.Dear Friends, While product placement hidden advertisements have long infiltrated network television shows, the Meredith Broadcasting Group has hit a new low: product placement on news broadcasts. The New York Times reports

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I just got this from the Census Bureau, along with a number of handy statistics.Labor Day 2008: Sept. 1The first observance of Labor Day is believed to have been a parade of 10,000 workers on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City, organized by Peter J. McGuire, a Carpenters and Joiners Union secretary. By 1893, more than half the states were observing a "Labor Day" on one day or another, and Congress

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Someone recently pointed out to me that CO2 levels are the highest they have been for 100 million years. I remarked that it was because we are burning 100 million year old fuel.My statement was somewhat true. While CO2 levels were probably a little higher 130 thousand years ago, fairly close to the dawn of mankind, it was quite a long time ago. The fuels we use today, so-called fossil fuels

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Let's say you followed the Armchair Activist's advice and clicked away at the action alert at a website for a cause you care about. You just need to care a little about your issue, because it is so easy to contact the overlords. As promised, they will hear your pleas.I contacted the President and Vice President of the United States about something a while back. I don't remember what exactly. It

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Somehow there is a bit of primitive satisfaction to see something torn asunder or see something burn up. And it has to be rendered to bits, to dust or to ashes. Nobody lights a fire and walks away. They want to see the log burn up completely. We watch the whole movie, play the whole game, finish the plate. There is anticipation of the result, the finality.Watch It Shred is a collection of the

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The Armchair Activist is back!You might be like me and are getting a few redundant alerts about animals. I don't actually mind, since they are similar but not the same. And if I follow up on the alert it only takes me seconds to relay an email on the subject to the department of interior or the EPA. Now whether or not they read the email is another story. This stuff isn't spam, but you know the

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This is an alert from the Organic Consumers Association: According to the Chicago Tribune, the White House is attempting to force famine stricken countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, to adopt Genetically Engineered crops tied to a $770 million aid package. It is just one of the alerts that concern those of you who care what you ingest. The OCA sends me a bulletin called Organic Bytes every

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The Armchair Activist strikes again!Defenders of Wildlife have their own action alerts.They send out an email every week or so, and you simply click on the "Alert", fill out the form with your information, and voice your opinion on, for example, the poaching of black bears. It seems that there is a black market in the gallbladders of bears for traditional Asian medicine. Support the Bear

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I find it easy now to do what once was inconvenient. I can become an activist. I can write letters to governors, congressmen, presidents, kings, you name it. I can even have them written for me by scribes I have never met. I ask them to support legislation, to save the whales or the wolves, to free those who have been unjustly arrested.It's easy to do, and here's the secret: use the internet.OK,

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Saturday we came home to an electrical problem. I first noticed that my computer was running off of battery. Then I noticed that every other thing in the house did not work. Then I noticed that every other room did not work. It was as if - actually it was the case - that every other circuit breaker in the house was not working.Fortunately for you I'll make this story shorter than it really was.I

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Last year after we moved in we bathed our selves in the watery sounds of the wood thrush. When we first heard it, we didn't even know what it was. Sasha described it to our friend who knew what she meant immediately.A few months later the bird was gone and so was it's song. Our neighbor's partly-feral cat killed it. I saw the cat carry it away. We were quite sad about it and though there had been

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In 2004, there were 215 million voting age adults in the United States.197 million of them were citizens.142 million were registered to vote in the presidential election.125 million voted.That means 17 million did not vote who were registered, and a total of 72 million did not (or could not) vote.Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, November 1996, 2000, and 2004.

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11522913457942999355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645094.post-17806620265604557302008-05-02T13:03:00.000-04:002008-12-11T05:27:15.843-05:00

Lucky you! I will keep this post short. We now have our own food coop.If any of you know anything about us, you know that we miss our old food coop in Brooklyn. The Park Slope Food Coop is the food coop of food coops. It is fodder for hours of discussion and mountains of blogging. I'm even afraid to link to any of the discussion on the internet, but take my word for it - all the good is true and

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We've had 3 Bear sightings this year. This is the only picture so far, since the camera is not always at hand. It's actually at dusk.We had one bear hanging out in the yard interested in our neighbor who was up on a ladder. Another sighting, this time in the morning of a family of 3 bears, but no bowls of cold, tepid, and hot chowda or whatever large, medium, and baby bears carry around with

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We recently ate some yummy April asparagus (pictured). I'm not sure, but last year I think we only clued into the big asparagus scene that goes on around here in May. So far in April I found some in Hatfield, in Deerfield, and in Hadley which is asparagus central for the country.Last year, I described the asparagus history of the region and gave you a few recipes.Here's another recipe. It's just

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Once again I receive a proxy from a company I have a vested interest in. As a stockholder, through my broker who has invested my IRA in stuff, I get to vote on some high quality issues.Below is the actual ballot. To find the details, you have to read pages and pages of documentation. But mainly you can tell just by scanning below that ConocoPhillips is against any sort of accountability or

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Forty to one. That's the golden ratio for maple syrup. Invented long ago by Native Americans, they found that if you tap a sugar maple tree and collect the sap you can boil it down to a wonderful syrup unknown anywhere else on earth but North America. OK, I haven't looked that one up, but I know the Native Americans didn't have barley or rice syrup and doubt they could have anticipated the

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I just received this notice from my town:8:00 PM Public Hearing on proposed subdivision revisions to require all subdivision curbs be granite, roads be amphibian/reptile-friendly, and require open culverts above streams, amend permit applications, and change fees. These changes will add some cost to roads and housing, primarily in outlying areas where most homes are done in subdivisions with

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11522913457942999355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645094.post-44112997734430091962008-03-30T20:31:00.000-04:002008-03-30T20:41:17.817-04:00

It finally happened!Leobardo Camacho, the mexican shoe vendor, has repaid the money I loaned him!Thanks to Kiva I was able to give him a micro-loan using microfinance. Kiva facilitates this. I provide the captal. A local lender provides the actual loan which Leobardo pays over a year or so plus interest. I don't get interest myself, but I do get the warm fuzzy feeling and I also get my lowly $50

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OK, I feel really really guilty.I own stock in GENERAL ELECTRIC. Or at least I have a broker who has arranged for this. But it's all abstract. Like the stock itself. It's in my IRA - I think. My IRA is something I wont be touching for at least 20 years, probably more. And who knows if I will even own part of GENERAL ELECTRIC by then. And I buy GE lightbulbs and appliances and occasionally watch

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11522913457942999355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645094.post-5531444886633884002008-01-30T16:33:00.000-05:002008-01-30T16:40:38.657-05:00

A reader asks:http://www.freerice.com/You should blog about this. Why do they work? DO they work? How do they work, are they run on ads?I hate them and love them. Not like my 400 grains of rice will feed even a single person. It's kind of insulting. But it's fun to do, too.My reply:The vocabulary game is fun.I agree in giving food to the hungry.You give 20 grains of rice per round of the

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We are blessed with our new home to have it located adjacent to 600 acres of protected woodlands.As such we do get wildlife. This includes: mice, usually found dead - smushed or rotted; bear, visiting as they do, rather oblivious to this whole "people" thing; snakes, along the driveway; chipmunks everywhere; and birds, at the feeder, under the feeder, nearby looking hopefully at the feeder with

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We had record snowfall in December. For the most part our new home behaved as it should. I "plowed" the snow a few times both during and after each storm with the new Toro electric snow blower I picked up. I was a bit embarrassed about buying an electric snowblower for two reasons. Firstly, it means that I have given up using a shovel to clear the driveway. Lastly, few people around here would

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Recently, we visited American Girl Place in New York City. My daughter knew exactly what she wanted from her study of their catalog. We grabbed the new Julie doll, some accessories and got out of there.I was curious what else there was in the store, but my daughter did not want to see anything else. She was done shopping. "Why should I look any more? Since I used all my money, I won't be buying

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Unfortunately, most small appliances are not worth researching. They are made in China and are cheap and disposable.This year while we were renting my wife bought a cheap microwave oven. It was about $50. When I opened the box I could see that the door was bent. I returned it, and I bought a cheaper microwave. It was $40, and actually was a reasonable size for heating leftovers. The next week it

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First the Wood Pile:I must confess now. Last week I was visiting my glorious wood pile, and I noticed that it was listing to one side. It was leaning a bit toward the house. I nudged it. It wiggled. I nudged it again. It wiggled some more. I decided to tie a rope around it and secure it to our deck. I nudged it again. It wobbled. I gave it a shove from the safer side, away from where it was

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Sometimes our local news just cracks me up. This breaking news is not from The Onion. It's from the local Northampton newspaper Hampshire Gazette.(Note: one link below added by me for sarcastic effect - like this story even needs it.)Williamsburg gears up for a new stop signBy DEBORAH DOULETTE Staff Writer WILLIAMSBURG - A new stop sign will soon be installed at the corner of North and North

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This is a shot of one of our pellet stoves aflame. When the room is cold, it is cozy to sit in front of the stove and enjoy the glow and the radiant heat. The front of the stove, the glass, and the stove pipe are hot, but unlike a wood stove, the rest of it is cool. When the stove is on low, the stove pipe is actually warm - and not hot - because of the high efficiency. Every few seconds, the

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We can't figure out exactly how to heat our house. Our house can be heated with forced-air gas heat, electric (in one big room), wood (fireplace in living room), or pellets. As I noted on a previous entry, when faced with too many choices, we humans may not make any choices at all, and ultimately we may feel bad about those we do make. For heating our house, it's too early to tell.Our home came

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Nods to the recent New Yorker cover drawing.

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My buddy Paul reminded me that there are many hours of provocative free video (and audio) of talks at the TED Conferences. TED, if I remember correctly, was organized by Wired Magazine types to celebrate those who make robots, write bleeding edge books on the business best seller lists, or have gone to MIT or started companies with significant number of employees who went to MIT. I'm no expert,

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A cord of wood is a volume which measures 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet. Typically one makes a stack of firewood with split logs about 16" long, so a 6 foot high cord of that would be 16 feet long.Last night I had our first firewood delivered here for burning. A few calls found someone who would deliver the amount we need. Since it's getting late in the wood season, we want wood that is dry and not

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My buddy David's blog Gluten-Free NYC was mentioned in the Times today!Hurray!

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The Pioneer Valley is famous for it's asparagus. Sasha, Lily & I have been eating very fresh asparagus the past month and a half, sometimes three times a week. It's a good thing at her age Lily gets habitual about food, so she doesn't complain about having the same thing every day. If it were pasta, she wouldn’t mind either. For those who haven't been so lucky, this is just like having fresh corn

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Yesterday afternoon I got out of the car in the driveway and I was puzzled. I thought, our driveway here smells so good. What is it? I paused for a while trying to figure it out. Was it the Lilac bush with only two clumps of flowers?Nah, that's not enough to perfume a big area. Aha, it must be the Lily-of-the-Valley!There is a huge patch near the entrance to our driveway about 20 feet from where

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I'm not sure what's in the air, must be radio broadcasts today, but NPR this morning had a piece on the "fad" of going wheat-free. They basically discounted (my take) the "less than 1%" of the country who are celiacs. And they went on about the amazing trend of people to forgo wheat. Periodically they would return to a chef who was in the process of making the most amazing glutenous pizza

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My, cremation has been a hot topic lately. Especially the disposition of remains. This lack of respect just burns me up. And rumor has it that there may be other news about Keith Richard's father's ashes. I'll tell you if I learn anything new.Here are the recent stories:What Keith told his cancer-hit mum about snorting his father's ashesFather's ashes refused as artNo Diamond for Dad's Ashes

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Charlotte Winters, the last surviving female World War I veteran, has died at age 109.

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I lent $50 to a shoe salesman in Mexico. Leobardo Camacho will use the money to buy more merchandise and will pay it back in 12 to 18 months. After which I may lend it to someone in Kenya or Somoa.The organization Kiva has partnered with local lenders in this case and several other countries to make these loans. Kiva charges (and pays) no interest and has a 100% repayment rate.Do you have any

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Scientists recently discovered that Bowhead Whales live to be over 200 years old making them the oldest mammals on earth. Some have been recently found (and killed) with 100 year old ivory spear points still in their blubber. They can live longer than us humans who, if they are American, live to almost 80 years old. This is more than elephants which can live over 70 years.Bear in mind that our

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A Vietnamese woman is reportedly 120 years old.Bhling Talah is an ethnic minority resident of Tr’Hy commune in Quang Nam province’s Tay Giang district

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The world's oldest man is 116 today!Hryhory Nestor lives in the Ukraine and "attributes his long life to healthy outdoor living, and recommends a diet of potatoes, milk and cheese."Sounds easy enough.

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A Salvadoran woman believed to have been 128 years old and possibly the world's oldest person, has died. Cruz Hernandez gave birth to 13 children and ended up with at least 60 grandchildren, 80 great-grandchildren and 25 great-great grandchildren.Guinness said the longest any woman has lived is 122 years.

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Two wonderful ancient women had good news this week. Each are 113, which means they have lived in 3 of our earth centuries and are almost 800 in dog years.Chen Aixiang, the oldest resident in Zhejiang Province, China, was happy at Spring Festival to see all 230 of her family members together celebrating her oldest daughter's 90th birthday.Saraswati Rai of Ghatana village of Myagdi district in

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