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Monday June 24, 2002 |
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of the Day I have been thinking of the freshness of memories and of their power to lend enchantment to the distant past, and I have been marveling at the way in which our minds involuntarily suppress and brush aside anything that spoiled the charm of those happy moments when we were actually living them. I have been comparing this kind of idealization, for such it is, with the effect that great works of art have on the imagination. A great painter concentrates the interest by suppressing details that are useless, offensive or foolish; his might hand orders and prescribes, adding to or taking away from the objects in his pictures... -- Eugene Delacroix, April 28, 1854 |
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Blog As has become the practice of late, I'm doing this update very late night/early morning, while too tired to be very clever. I need to get back to doing them during the evening, when I've got energy and wit and patience with the tapping fingers. Rather than at 5am, with sleep about 3 hours overdue. I have to work Mon and Tues night, but after that I'm off of RL work for a couple of weeks, and will catch up on some website work, on the D2 site and here as well. Not that I've ever said that before. This will be a blog with news, but not much commentary. I'll try to be more scrumptious tomorrow. News. • Square watermelons. They look handy and sort of nifty, but the price is a bit absurd. Just buy a normal watermelon and cut it up and stick it in a square tupperware container? • I blogged a couple of days ago about the World Cup, and mentioned the horrible officiating, among other things. There have been numerous awful calls, and many of them have cost teams games, most notably Spain having two goals questionably-disallowed against Korea, before losing in penalty kicks. I said that they really needed to get more refs on the field, and/or instant replay on goal scoring situations. This article on the BBC discusses the horrible calls, and even compiles a list of the worst ones, though they offer no suggestions for improvements. • Firing off automatic weapons at a wedding is a common activity in many parts of the world. Bigger bombs = bigger celebrations, right?
Remember, Pakistan has nuclear weapons. Let's hope no generals get married any time soon? • In my experience, it's not a good idea to get any living animals at big chain stores. Certainly not puppies or kittens, since they get them from puppy farms and overbreeders, but not other animals either. The owners are some corporation, the employees are minimum wage kids who know nothing about animals, and the quality is low. Get dog/cat food there, but nothing more. A good example of this is the problem with PetCo stores in San Francisco, where there were numerous dead animals lying around in various displays, a toad that was boiled in its cage by improper set up, and more.
Find a smaller pet store where the owner works in it, or they have long time staff, who really know their stuff. Pet Kingdom in San Diego is a store like that, with a huge selection, pretty good prices, but real knowledgeable staff. They all look like weird hippy kids or punk rockers and such, but they do know about animals, care, feeding, etc. Good pet stores are usually old, crowded, and not every cage there is brand new. If your pet store looks like a Supermarket with animals displayed like a new type of cereal, and the employees are clean cut high school kids, I wouldn't buy anything there I wanted to live for long. |
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Perhaps I'm cynical, but when I hear reports from people about some escaped convict being eaten by a crocodile from a remote river in Costa Rica, with eyewitnesses who probably knew him, I suspect duplicity and/or invention. Or maybe like in Crocodile Dundee 2, where he had that crocodile skin on and grabbed his friend from the bad guys. |
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