Items with yellow background
indicate added or changed content.
Items with orange background tend to be more "technical",
improving the structure of the site, but not necessarily
significantly affecting end-user content.
Grayed out items are defunct. I started this log
on 7 July 1997; prior changes are
not included. (This web site was
established ca. 01 Dec 1996.)
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30Apr06
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Abiko,
in the style of Rembrandt.
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24Apr06
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Added picture of Waltham "stone mountain"
pocket watch (ca. 1872): transparent agate plates make movement seem to float in the air....
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24Apr06
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![[ Bless your pet.... ]](GO/catIcon.gif)
New material added to: The blessing of the pets
(bottom of page).
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22Apr06
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Example how I try to "make do" in constructing for myself a "life of the mind" without resources
to have the social situations and architected places to really do so ("Le Cube d'Un"?).
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22Apr06
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Are you out of gas?
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21Apr06
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Outline of why automobile driving is a "great" example
of a kind of activity that should not be part of
persons' daily life (introduces high risks for low rewards; tends not to "fail safe", etc.).
Also: photo![[ See picture of how driving is hazardous! ]](gif/rchr.gif)
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18Apr06
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Added more historical information about this website:
Mouse cartoons page as it looked in June 1997.
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17Apr06
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Discovered: Japan "Superflat" fantasy (after Takashi Muramaki): alienation in
contemporary Japan page does not work with Netscape 4.7-4.8 (apparently the
page nests tables too deep for Netscape 4.7-4.8 to process). Made special version
that does work for Netscape 4.7-4.8.
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16Apr06
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Added picture of: hand-blown glass vase,
Patricia Esch (1971).
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16Apr06
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Dulce et decorum est, cont'd:
Remains of WWI soldiers continue to be found in the fields of Flanders.
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13Apr06
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Added comparative pictures of different Islamic women's attire:
Hijab, khimar, chador,
niqab, burqa.
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12Apr06
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![[ Remember IBM! ]](gif/logo-ibm.gif)
THINK Lenovo: Quickly Erasing 'I' and 'B' and 'M'
(IBM).
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12Apr06
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Computer users need better choices
(not just more choices).
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Feb-
Apr06
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![[ Loose HTML 4.01 Checked! Test me! ]](valid_html4_01.gif)
Changed HTML <font size= tagging to
<big> and <small> tags because the latter seems
more "logical" and was recommended by the W3C validation service. Also upgraded all
pages (e.g. puns.html and
this page...) from HTML 4.0 Loose to 4.01 Loose (reason I hesitated to upgrade some is that tables with
border=1 or wider border tend to not display attractively in
Firefox when doctype is 4.01 Loose).
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21Mar06
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Added picture of IBM poster: "How to Stuff a Wild Duck".
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18Mar06
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![[ George W Bush hides behind the flag! ]](gif/united_states.gif) Flanked by a phalanx of American flags,
George W Bush re-affirms: "America is at war." (More...)
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06Mar06
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Reworked my: Japan "Superflat" fantasy (after Takashi Muramaki); alienation in
contemporary Japan. Float away...
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05Mar06
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Added cartoon of an Islamist Mullah
(not a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed!).
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04Mar06
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01 May 2003,
George W Bush announced end of major combat operations in Iraq; March 2006, 4 C-130 gunships
are moved to Iraq to help fight "the Iraqi resistance":
fn.115
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03Mar06
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Patek Philippe ref. 5015/5054/5055/5085/... wristwatch info page updated to indicate discontinued models
+ show: new ref. 3712/1A.
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02Mar06
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Yet another disaster that could have been avoided: The crash of Swissair Flight 111 (02Sep98).
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25Feb06
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Added photos of special shelf I designed above doorway (no door) between
living room and kitchen/dining area, to display fine craft objects safe from cats, children &
other accidents, without taking up any usable space in our small house.
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19Feb06
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Post-modern sculpture restored and reworked. Please use links
on: Further Adventures of Post-Modern Sculpture page (Thank you).
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12Feb06
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![[ Watch out! ]](sq/warn.gif) New
material added to "Quotes I like" pages (item #245):
U.S. Public health officials say if deadly "bird flu" epidemic happens, without effective vaccine or treatments,
our best chance of avoiding infection is to avoid crowds, wear face masks....
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11Feb06
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When fashion trumps structure: strapless dresses and pillarless coupes.
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10Feb06
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Dies Irae (This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a sacrilegious cartoon...).
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06Feb06
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Do you know the location of the most sacred mole in the world?
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06Feb06
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Added statistical summary of usage of multiple source triggers for footnote links (part of
my endeavor to elaborate the potential for effective website navigation techniques).
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05Feb06
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Added U.S. spy satellite photo of secret Islamist Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
(ICBM).
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27Jan06
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Darkness returns....
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09Jan06
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Guestbook entry (#515) leads me to news story:
Suicide bomber mouse.
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04Jan06
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Story of a hero:
fn.112
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13Nov05
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![[ Give blood! ]](GO/giveBlood.gif) I donate blood,
at the church across the street from my home, again.
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25Sep05
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Checked how my web pages look on a current Apple Macintosh, in Safari 2.0 (412) web browser. Almost everything rendered
very nicely, with only a few exceptions (like the digital time in my Java clock Applet
being too high in its little "frame"). [See also: 16Jun07 entry.]
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28Jun05
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Unexpectedly, I donated blood this day, at the church across the street from my home.
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06Jun05
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Previously "floating" group of return (etc.) buttons at lower left corner of
show-image
and show-text
cgi script-generated pages redesigned as a "box".
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03Jun05
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More Bush satire: 28th Amendment to U.S. Constitution passed -- people's
right to engage in contractual relations protected.
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02Jun05
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Read: Resolution.
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![[ Where do you throw your used paper towels in the restroom? ]](gif/garbageCan.gif) (22May05)
Added to Wilful rudeness at entrance to the men's restroom:
documentary photograph w/analysis.
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(25May05)
Added to Wilful rudeness at entrance to the men's restroom documentation, detail photograph:
This is not a trash receptacle.
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29May05
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![[ See my early digital photos! ]](gif/camera.gif) Added
more historical documentation of this website: dates of earliest digital photographs.
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28May05
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Enhanced e-Magritte: This is not a Magritte painting
(Also: The treason of images, etc.).
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27May05
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Added picture of Misu Maine Coon cat resting in split-level + catenary position.
Also: Includes brief classification of recent ethnological periods in United States history.
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21May05
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Crescent moon (10 May 2005, evening. Chappaqua, NY USA).
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21May05
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21May05
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Mr. Dialtone.
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19May05
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Cat, escaping burning house, hopes to have special treat: a mouse flambú
(National Film Board of Canada fire safety film).
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13May05
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Another way America is running on empty.
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10May05
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Small but genuine reason for hope about life, derived from
doing: Crossword puzzles.
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07May05
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"Architecture and Morality"
(Please read: Footnote #108.)
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04May05
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New material added to page of cameo images of folkways of 21st century American middle-class life
(extension of material on "Some folkways of American Life" page).
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01May05
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New picture of Misu Maine Coon cat: Misu as
spectator.
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29Apr05
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![[ Come in this door! (Lockout!) ]](gif/door2.gif) Lockout!
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Successful labor-management negotiation.
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21Apr05
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U.S. Secretary of State seeks to reassure Russia that "the United States does not see developments in the
former Soviet states... as in any way anti-Russian or meant to diminish Russian influence".
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19Apr05
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Join me on federal jury duty! (I'd never previously been called for jury duty anywhere.)
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11Apr05
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The gentlemanly game of golf promotes gracious serenity.
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Good fun and comaraderie turn nasty at art students' impromptu baseball game.
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10Apr05
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When pigs fly....
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10Apr05
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New haiku added to page of Haikus or at least pseudo-haikus.
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09Apr05
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I finally figured out how a mouse can get the bait without risking getting
caught in the mousetrap. |
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Laws that are easy to obey will more likely be obeyed (Make laws
be easy to obey). |
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Problems breed more problems. |
06Apr05
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"Excuse me, Can I bother you?...."
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03Apr05
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An eloquent word I just heard and wish I had thought up myself: "post-religious".
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30Mar05
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If you play soccer (or let your child play...), you (your child...) are likely to suffer some
brain damage. Is it worth it to you, or to expose your child to this risk?
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26Mar05
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Do you know what is the solvent of choice museum art conservators use to
clean valuable paintings?
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Example of a job done right.
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20Mar05
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Added songwriter Mary Gauthier's description of the creative process (Quote #231).
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16Mar05
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Although I was never a soldier in a defeated army, for the first 40 years of my life I had,
many times, to "pass under the yoke".
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14Mar05
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Added opinion of one person, whom I respect, concerning: G-d's goodness and/or lack thereof
(Footnote #102).
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13Mar05
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Added to Links to Elsewheres
page: new recommended external website: "The Power of Nightmares"
(how the neoconservatives and Islamists shaped our world).
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10Mar05
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Added more thoughts about Abraham and Isaac.
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06Mar05
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Added [by BMcC modified...] Dilbert cartoon showing
how I generally have had to learn.
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03Mar05
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Postmodernist architect Frank Gehry designs concert hall in Los Angeles that
really heats things up.
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01Mar05
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An interesting [less elitist, more
democratic?] way to earn a living as a popular singer.
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27Feb05
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Added picture: traditional Japanese street (in winter).
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26Feb05
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Added photo: myself at age 58+1/4.
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24Feb05
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Posted
Synex Information AB press release,
19 October 1994, announcing Panorama SGML web viewer: "In a development that could dramatically alter
the use of the Internet..." (--a development which, unfortunately, failed to materialize).
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21Feb05
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Added [exquisite or at least almost exquisite] picture:
Irani woman adjusting her head scarf.
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08Feb05
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What tradition consists of.
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08Feb05
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Added picture: Aztec sculpture
with inner self showing thru outer face? (No information available)
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06Feb05
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| Added picture: "classic French café"
(illustrates quote how French women enjoy eating delicious food and stay slim,
whereas Americans are becoming increasingly obese). |
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30Jan05
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Added photograph: my father Robert McCormick and other
members of the B-29 crew he was part of in World War II (1945).
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29Jan05
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Added new picture
of Abiko Maine Coon cat (at age: 12 years), resting, early in an winter evening.
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23Jan05
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"A great calamity has come upon us,
and seemingly no cause of our own...."
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19Jan05
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High-level task-force needed to recommend proper diet for all Americans!
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18Jan05
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Human qualities: taxonomic vs honorific.
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16Jan05
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Added to collection of vocabulary words I either (a) especially
like or (b) seem to have no use for (etc.).
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12Jan05
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Added to collection: useful words to know in the new millennium,
in page of "Stuff".
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09Jan05
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Proposed system for rating techno gadgets, etc....
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09Jan05
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Started collecting: Thoughts that won't go away.
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01Jan05
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Supposedly environment-friendly electricity-generating
wind turbines kill bats.
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31Dec04
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New material added to:
China 2004: The Communist Party gives peasants' land to capitalists.
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26Dec04
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Ukraine's new president asserts:
"Today, I am convinced that
it is fashionable to be a Ukrainian.
It's stylish. It's beautiful."
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20Dec04
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Added proposed design for
Metropolitan Museum of Art flag.
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17Dec04
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The United States of America soon to acquire its own:
Wailing wall.
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17Dec04
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Added ikon image in Greek Orthodox style with genuine gold-leaf background:
St. George of the Bush.
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12Dec04
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New option in body decoration (aka mutilation): Eyeball jewelry (jewelry implanted
in the eyeball).
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12Dec04
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picture of recently remodelled Chappaqua mansion: Villa Pizza (with pepperoni and cheese...). |
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![[ Palladio in America, 2004 :: Visit Villa Pizza ]](GO/palladioVillaIcon.gif) |
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09Dec04
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Added picture of George W Bush rallying the troops: E pluribus unum.
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07Dec04
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Reworked page: Is the adventure of Universalizing emancipatory Culture in "The West" over?
[~ The decline of "The West"]
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