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Francis Doyle is a 13-year-old with a hernia who lives in Savannah, Georgia and goes to a Catholic junior high school. He is an altar boy. His life is dangerous. This is a fictional memoir telling the tales of Doyle and his gang. Beaten by his father, pulling pranks in school, falling in love, [...]
Saturday I did the Blazing Saddles century put on by North Shore Cyclists (Georgetown or something). This is one of my favorites. Although fairly flat, there are one or two hills of note, particularly near Topsfield. They changed the route a bit this year and it’s much nicer. They got rid of the few high [...]
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A very well made film depicting the 26-month life and death of the Sex Pistols, one of the most important bands to come along in the history of rock n roll. The flim was made in co-operation with the (surviving) Sex Pistols and includes a lot of archival footage of early concerts. No punches [...]
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Stephen Furst is an actor who played “Flounder” in amazon“>Animal House, “Dr. Elliot Axelrod” in St. Elsewhere and “Vir” in Babylon 5. Never watched St. Elsewhere, but loved Animal House and Babylon 5 is one of my favorite shows EVAR! Vir was one of my favorite characters, too. So when, when season 4 started [...]
Yesterday was the quarterly checkup thing and my numbers were a bit off. I thought they might be.
A1c is up to 6.0 from 5.3. That’s not good. Below 6.0 is target, but I’d like to have a little more room than that. A 0.7 jump is a lot in only 3 months, I think. Must [...]
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Kaufman, pediatric endocrinologist and former president of the American Diabetes Assn., writes about what she’s been seeing in her practice at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles: an explosion in obesity and type 2 diabetes in children. The book has loads of stories, many heartbreaking, about the increasing waistlines in this country and the resulting health [...]
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The story of Jane Toppin, killer of anywhere from 11 to 100 people. She began her killing spree working as a nurse in Cambridge (MA) Hospital in the late 1800s where she experimented with different poisons. She went on to become a private nurse, poisoning many of her charges until she was finally caught [...]
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Denise Crosby (”Tasha Yar”) hosts a look at the Star Trek fan phenomenon.
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I read the reviews saying “Hillarious” and “Laugh out loud funny” but I didn’t really find it that way. While it’s a good film, I didn’t find it the riotous look the reviews claimed. I [...]
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Another Wooster & Jeeves (surprised?). Back to Brinkley Court, Wooster has to untangle yet another marriage proposal. This one is a bit different in that Jeeves isn’t in the book until the very end (he’s on vacation judging a bathing beauty contest) and Aunt Dahlia has been called away leaving Bertie in [...]
I joined a gym today. It was sort of a spur-of-the-moment thing. A bit on the expensive side. Sort of. But not really. The price ($70/mo) includes everything, and it has a pool. The last gym I belonged to charged extra for everything including classes and towels. It’ll give me something to do when the [...]
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Another fun distraction between classics.
Bertie returns from vacationing with Aunt Dahlia and Cousin Angela only to be summoned to Market Snodberry immediately upon return. Gussie Fink-Nottle is trying to ask for Angela’s hand in marriage but having a tough time of it. Tuppy Glossop’s engagement to Madeline Bassett is off. No, it’s on. No, [...]
C.I.C.L.E. :: ยป Farewell Bronx Jon
So I come home from work today and what do I find? The nice, big, healthy 12-inch tree in front of my house has been ripped out by the roots. It, along with another sickly tree, were cut down by the city while another wholly diseased tree was left standing.
Explanation by the city: “I don’t [...]
I have a working DSL line!!! Full speed and no errors.
The Covad guy came last night and had the problem diagnosed within about 10 minutes and fixed in about 20.
Verdict: Verizon totally botched the wiring. Wires were cross connected and other assorted mess. Basically, they had the DSL line cross wired to the voice line [...]
Took a couple short rides this weekend.
Saturday I went to a BBQ at a coworker’s place. Yummers! Friday I bought 18 ears of corn at the farmer’s market, but on Saturday I couldn’t find my backpack to carry them down to West Roxbury. So I took some cheese instead. That means I still have 18 [...]
Got this from Knox this morning:
Vic has been in a serious enough bike accident. Actually, I should say car accident, since it was the fucker in the car that hit him. He will be fine, though he is pretty beat up with stiches in his arm and leg, fractured hand, road rash, etc. I am [...]
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Another one in the “getting around to reading the classics series”.
This may actually be a perfect book. Well, story, as it’s so short (only 77 pages in the edition I had). The story of an anthropomorphic dog stolen from an idylic life in Santa Clara, California and shipped north to be used and abused [...]
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This is another of those stories that I always meant to read but never did. So now I have.
Sometimes there are books that really deserve the reputation as “A Classic” and this is one of them. The story isn’t all that long, about 70 smallish print pages in the edition I had, but it’s [...]
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A morality play involving avarice and pride.
Two amateur astronomersm Forsyth and Hudelson, sight the same meteor within seconds of each other. The “actual” discoverer is of no real consequence until it’s discovered that the meteor is made of pure gold whereupon the two end their friendship and the marriage plans of their nephew and [...]
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This is a collection of four Poe short stories: “The Murder in the Rue Morgue,” “Ligeia,” “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Mask of the Red Death.”
This is one of those things that you’re “supposed” to read, but I’d never gotten around to it. I found these stories both interesting and a bit disappointing. The [...]
