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Yearly Archives: 2007

Mike, Two months ago, Beth & I drove up to the Pawnee National Grasslands in the northeast corner of Colorado, close to the borders of Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas. We wondered if it was like the Kansas prairie that we drove through last January, or like the prairie that your father grew up in. It […]

I reckon there’s a Minnesotan who clicked on this link and promptly passed out. You see, Matt and I usually wait until the last minute when the only trees remaining have bare spots like clear cuts and pine needles like sewing needles. And, typically, we haven’t gotten off our lazy behinds until prompted by the […]

Mike, Here‘s an unusual movie of one of our favorite celestial objects. The black curve is the edge of the Sun–the top of the photosphere that you see by eye. Above it is the roiling, boiling chromosphere as seen by Hinode’s ultraviolet telescope. –rakkity

The best and maybe the longest version of Pretty Woman with Roy Orbison, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, T Bone Burnett & J D Souther.

  Dan’s wanted a garage for as long as I can remember. He’d drawn up designs complete with elevations and he’d talked to friends and he’d talked to the town planning commission and he’d snooped around the neighborhood looking where neighbors kept their cars and just when it looked like he was about to start, […]

  Dan’s wanted a garage for as long as I can remember. He’d drawn up designs complete with elevations and he’d talked to friends and he’d talked to the town planning commission and he’d snooped around the neighborhood looking where neighbors kept their cars and just when it looked like he was about to start, […]

Most people walk out of their dentist’s office with a toothbrush, dental floss and maybe a small bottle of mouthwash. I guess mine wants me back because look at what the hygienist gave me.

Brock began shaving at fourteen and by sixteen he was doing it twice it day. I’ve known him for thirty years, ever since he fixed our first car. I know he doesn’t really know me. It’s the merchant syndrome. If you walk into your local drugstore that pharmacist is the only pharmacist and you never […]