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Art Car Season

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This motley group can only mean one thing. Okay, it can mean many, many things. And most of them are dubious. But not this one. It means it’s time for the Art Car Parade. (This photo is from the parade 2007 – photo by Virginia) I’ll be driving the Allen Oldies Mobile this year.

Themes in the Ether

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This weekend I spent the weekend in Wimberley, Texas. One of the boardgames someone wanted to play was Goa – a trading game themed on the historically important region of India. But it’s a four-player game and we had five people, so it never got played. Perikles.jpgAnother that was high on the list and did get played was Perikles – by well-know boardgame designer (yes, there are a few), Martin Wallace.

On the return trip I listened to the NPR Puzzle podcast from the previous weekend. Will Shortz had just returned from some sort of puzzle tournament in Goa. The on-air puzzle was categories in C-H-A-M-P, and plays by Shakespeare was one of them. Can you name a P- play by Shakespeare?

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iPod Number 4

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I bought another iPod recently. An 8GB iPod Touch. It’s my fourth. Here’s the rundown of the iPods: 20GB 4th Generation Classic iPod Color (model# PA079LL, serial# JQ5263A7TDU) – I lost it at some point several years ago and was so jonesing to have an iPod I bought on eBay a…. 2GB 1st Generation iPod … Read more

The El Orbits on a Monday Night

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Between today and the last time I was at the Continental Club, with the El Orbits, and letters and numbers, it’s been a while. I saw quite a few familiar faces last night, some whose names I know, and some I don’t. Virginia O, Pete G, Allen H, Thomas E, Bob S, Lance, Mark & … Read more

Rat Snake on the Gulf Coast

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I was cleaning out my overburdened in-box and came across an old email from Kim. A photo of a rat snake they found while doing yard work at her mother-in-law’s place in Palacios, Texas. It’s a quite impressive snake. Palacious is on the Tres Palacios Bay, a small inlet off of the Matagorda Bay, and … Read more