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I got a clean throw off against a resisting brown belt during randori last night! The instructor was actually standing right there with his stopwatch and pointed it out. … Continue reading »

A few months ago, we picked up one of those Imperia Pasta Machine at Williams-Sonoma, as part of a gift certificate we had left over from the wedding. (As … Continue reading »

Usefilm.com has a search engine to show user-submitted sample pictures from different camera/lens/film combinations. Here’s the link for the D70 and the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D combination. Unfortunately, they don’t seem … Continue reading »

Jane Brody in the NYTimes last month had an article about the expiration date labelling on packaged food. The article has gone to the NYT Pay Archive Heaven, … Continue reading »

Bizarrely, in the space of a week, I’ve lost a little bit of skin at each of the places I get my exercise, all in consectutive sessions. In the … Continue reading »

I picked up a Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8D AF lens on EBay last week in preparation for our Alaska trip in the late spring (It’s an older one, #3 on Ken … Continue reading »

I read Victor David Hanson’s Carnage and Culture last year, coincidentally soon after reading Creasy’s Victorian-era survey book Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World The earlier book consisted of relatively brief … Continue reading »

Cleveland.com has a gas price survey that looks like it’s frequently updated. Of course, it’s probably not worth driving out (much less finding) some of these places, but one … Continue reading »

Well, I got bombed last night with some 300 trackbacks advertising an online poker site. WordPress handles trackbacks processing differently from comments processing (even though they all wind up … Continue reading »