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Archive for June 2006

   (2006.06.05)

Yet another instalment in the seemingly endless stream of surprises down at the Beach.

I saw this frogman in orange (for it is he) walk smartly into the lake. Then I noticed the other guy, who soon hollered over to the frogman “While you’re down there, can you look for my glasses?”

Man in street clothes crouches over intake vent on rocky outcropping in lake while another man in orange wetsuit and white helmet walks toward the vent

I thought this was a joke. I was – so help me – on my way over to suggest that he should have said “contact lenses” when the frogman reached in and – so help me – pulled out a pair of eyeglasses and handed them to the other guy.

I love this shit.

And did you notice the intake vent camouflaged as a rocky outcropping?

   (2006.06.04)
Black cherrypicker crane, with basket at end of boom lowered almost to ground level, sits on white plates on beach
   (2006.06.02)

A proposed settlement to a lawsuit claiming that DVDs marked as captioned did not actually contain captioned bonus materials is a bad deal and should be opposed. Here’s why

   (2006.06.02)

Not Levels of HTML or of CSS Knowledge

   (2006.06.01)

Saying goodbye to the man who lets hatred run amok

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