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Although, as a web designer, I should know better, this blog covers random topics: food, design, what's on tv, florida, things I like, things that irk me. You know, miscellany.
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2008 Blog Entries
le sacré et le profane
12/19/2008 4:25:04 PM
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In a tiny palm-tree filled greenspace, at the intersection of Hillsboro Blvd and Federal Highway, you'll find a classic example of outdoor holiday decorating. It's my very favorite kind: a juxtaposition of the sacred and the profane, with a …
Categories: Humor
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My Christmas Tradition
12/14/2008 7:21:10 PM
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Every year I try to watch as many versions of Charles Dickens'
A Christmas Carol
as possible. The ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim ... the highs, the lows, the happy ending ... Dickens, you're a …
Categories: Humor
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A tribute to never giving up
12/3/2008 7:58:18 AM
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I just want to take a moment to pay tribute to the two older gentlemen who sit outside my Starbucks every morning, at the table right by the door, talking about their Mercedes' or their boats or their investment strategy or whatever other i …
Categories: Random
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Fairchild Gardens
11/30/2008 8:09:52 PM
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Click on the image at right for a slideshow of my recent trip to the gorgeous Fairchild Botanical Gardens. If you like plants, green growing things, or the earth at all, and you find yourself with some spare time in the Miami area, try to v …
Categories: Nature
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My Apartment
10/30/2008 8:41:46 PM
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OMG, I don't even know why I started doing this thing. It feels like it was a half century ago. Anyway, these were some pictures I took in my apartment, the one time it was neat and clean. And then I decided I was going to make a slide show …
Categories: Design
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I really walked
10/30/2008 8:37:53 PM
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Just to demonstrate that I really did walk in the Breast Cancer 2009 event, here are the pictures. It was three grueling miles. Fortunately, they were handing out water and bananas.
Anyway, thanks so much for the support ... you kn …
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Comfort Food
9/29/2008 2:43:28 PM
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Why have I been overwhelmed with the urge to make comfort food that I haven't made in years? Roast chicken, lasagna, twice baked potatoes, that canned vegetable salad that I've been throwing together since college ... maybe it's the smell o …
Categories: Food
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Cancer Walk Oct 18
9/14/2008 8:36:45 PM
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Just to let you know that I'm participating in the American Cancer Society walk to support breast cancer research on Oct 18. Should you be struck by an urge to contribute,
Categories: Random
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Ocean Video
9/9/2008 10:33:57 PM
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The ocean this evening from my balcony looked churned up, a result of Ike's rain, wind etc. On closer inspection, the surf was active, but not that wild. Anyway, I got inspired to compile some of the pictures that have accumulated since I'v …
Categories: Nature
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I saw this in the ocean
9/1/2008 8:03:56 PM
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I saw this fish in the ocean the other day. But what is it? Click image at right to see more detail. …
Categories: Nature
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Things that are never good
7/27/2008 6:47:41 PM
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One of my favorite Simpson's episodes (just one of many) is the one where Homer and his neighbor Ned Flanders get into a suburban-style competition and try to out-do each other vis à vis ostentatious consumption. At some point it comes down …
Categories: Humor
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Do such places really exist
6/26/2008 7:44:13 AM
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This was cycling through the email superhighway. One has to wonder - do such places really exist? Click on the picture at right to judge for yourself. …
Categories: Random
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Control plus Z
6/19/2008 9:58:34 PM
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Sometimes I wish there was an "undo" key for life. Just something that would erase everything that you'd recently done until you got back to the last point where things were working right. You wouldn't even have to know what you'd done wron …
Categories: Self-Doubt
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Why I like Hillary Clinton and Tonya Harding
6/11/2008 3:10:37 PM
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Can I just say that I'm back in love with Hillary Clinton again? I fell a little bit out of love over the past few months, and I'm not proud of it. I had doubts. I had cold feet.
But her concession speech was gracious and enthusia …
Categories: Rants
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Some old and some new photos
5/28/2008 9:33:04 PM
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After Idel and Hope visited Florida, I collected some of my most ancient photos and turned them into this small slide show. There are some shots of grandparents and beyond, who knows ... Blum's, Leyes', LaMon's, Friedlanders, Lowensteins, a …
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Maryland Has Crabs
5/9/2008 9:08:19 PM
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Part of my job involves routinely writing copy about each state in the union, and why it would be so awesome to spend time in that state. (id est, “Idaho is known as the gem state, and it is a gem.”) Write such a blurb for one state, you’re …
Categories: Humor
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Can I have a cheeseburger?
1/31/2008 8:20:24 PM
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I'm just saying, I started out HATING this site, because of its stupidity, and because of how it says everything wrong about people who like cats, or even about people who like animals in general. About how we're all morons who can't spell …
Categories: Humor, Nature
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I have run out of ideas
1/23/2008 4:04:59 PM
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I hate to say this, but it kind of feels like I have run out of ideas for blogging. Is that possible? Or have I run out of ideas entirely? You should know that I now have a new neighbor. "Mean Jerry" has moved out. I like to think he has be …
Categories: Self-Doubt
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