Saturday, April 19, 02003
Turns out I haven't watched TV for about a year now. I knew it was sometime around Easter, but I had to check the archives to get the date. I've watched about 8 hours of TV all year, most of it while visiting relatives over holidays.
Over the past year, not once has anyone asked me if I saw some show on TV. The only television references in conversation have been to Sienfeld and Simpsons episodes well over five years old. Suprisingly, no Star Trek references I can remember.
When I do end up watching some TV, the ads all look the same. It doesn't look like any new products have been released that I don't know about. Actually, it doesn't look like any new products at all have been released. Same old shit everytime I watch.
While folks were glued to their sets during the Washington sniper incident and the wars, I was getting the same information from 30 seconds worth of web browsing.
The only negative aspect has been that I had a mild panic attack while watching some movie.
I don't know if obesity is caused by kids watching TV, but stopping watching certainly helped me lose some weight. I've lost 15 pounds over the past year, without really changing my diet much or exercising more than I used to.
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Thursday, April 17, 02003
On the off chance your local library branch may have more pressing problems than nosy FBI agents...
(Images stolen from SpeedySigns OSHA page. )
(Other darker signs are in the extended section, as I think of them.)
Posted at 10:27 PM EST [Link]
OK, so a certain reader, my Dad in fact, is going to show me where the Catholic Worker farm was over the weekend when I'm back at Easton for Easter. Wee hoo.
I've been saying "wee hoo" a lot lately. I should stop. Or at least get a ten gallon hat.
Posted at 01:34 PM EST [Link][Comment]
The second generation Prius is available. 15% better fuel consumption, 30% lower emissions. Sweet.
BTW, the lifetime milage on my car finally topped 52 mpg - it's at 52.1 now.
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Wednesday, April 16, 02003
Someone who used to live in the Easton Catholic Worker farm has sent me an e-mail. Here's part of it. I don't actually have permission to publish it. If the author's not OK with it, please let me know, and I'll remove it.
By some happy accident, while Googling all over the place, as I do, sometimes, in search of gems of information or images of the places and people of my early life (in this case the search term was "Easton"), I came across your (Sept. 1, 2002) blog about locating the site of the Catholic Worker farm (known as Maryfarm) at Easton. I was thrilled, because, you see, my parents lived on that farm for a year or two, after they were married at the Catholic Worker in New York in February 1942. I was born at the farm. Well, not born ON the farm, but my mother had to walk down from the hills, in a blizzard and all alone, in labor, to the hospital in town to deliver yours truly. I am now 60 years old. My parents are gone, along with just about all of their contemporaries. I have often thought of trying to go and see the Easton farm, or what might remain of it, someday, but I had no idea how to locate it. I have consulted several people with C.W. ties but they have only vague ideas. I know that it was on or near Morgan Hill, which you mentioned. I also remember talk about a family that was left behind when the rest of the community disbanded -- Victor and Eva Smith. You mentioned the Smith family, it must be their descendants.
Pretty cool !
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Tuesday, April 15, 02003
Maybe I'll arrange these links into a more proper post later, but I'm so disgusted now I can't think straight.
Frisk on Baghdad library blazes.
Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
Now we are only distant witnesses to what occurs.
- Mounir Bouchenaki, assistant director of culture at UNESCO, 4-7-02003
