Author: rcragun
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Hello from Portland
I flew into Portland, OR last night for a conference (SSSR). I’ll be here until Sunday. Lack of foresight left me thinking the sessions started bright and early this morning… Not so. The sessions don’t start until around 1:00 pm, which left me with an entire morning in Portland to blow. After forking over an…
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Tall Stacks
Debi and I went to Tall Stacks this past weekend (Saturday). One of our dance students from the Copacabanna set up a deal to get tickets on the Salsa cruise on the Harriet Bishop. We thought it might be fun, so we paid the $30 per ticket to see what all the fuss is about.…
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letter to the editor – NYTimes
It probably won’t get published, but I had to write the following letter in response to this op-ed piece that appeared today in the NYTimes: No Undergrad Left Behind. Dear Editor, I’m writing in reference to the Opinion piece by Eugene Hickok in the October 11, 2006 edition of the paper. Mr. Hickok seems to…
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waxing political for a moment…
There are several good articles in the NYTimes this morning about the direction the U.S. government seems to be heading as regards civil rights and Presidential powers. Here’s an excellent op-ed about a similar situation faced by the Romans: Excerpt: But such was the panic that ensued after Ostia that the people were willing to…
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I was just intubated…
So, the research study (phase 1 of 4) is wrapping up and now they’re doing their tests on me (16 days of eating meat down, 2 to go). I went into the hospital this morning at 8:00 to have a tube stuck up through my nose and into my stomach. Once it was in –…
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Lorenzo’s Oil
I don’t review most of the movies I watch these days, but I do review some and I rate all of them on IMDB. Anyway, this isn’t my review, it’s Debi’s. If you’re familiar with the premise of Lorenzo’s Oil, you can skip to Debi’s review. If not, here’s the quick of it: A boy…
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Tribute to Utah video
If you haven’t seen it yet, you may want to check it out. It’s a very funny parody of the Beach Boys song “Kokomo” using Utah city names: . (Thanks to Mike Nielsen for the link.)
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want a printer?
We just bought a new multi-function printer to do a bunch of scanning (it has an auto document feeder and dupluxer so it will scan both sides of a piece of paper) and are looking to get rid of our relatively unused Canon Pixma IP3000. I got it for $5.00 when I purchased a new…
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geek crafts
Debi and I worked on a project together these weekend – the construction of a digital picture frame out of an old laptop. You can see some photos of the project below:
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so… meat, not as good as I remember
The study started today and, rather than ease into things, I was given a few slices of cow right out of the gate: I admit I was a little anxious about eating it – it’s been 7 years! Anyway, I bit into it and found that meat isn’t really that good. I can think of…