I love this hive employee
I think some of my first attempts at entomophotography came out pretty well. Presenting
Bees of Poland:
I also tried some of the mead produced by those Polish bees. It was okay.
I'm riding high upon a deep depression
The idea for this graph comes from
Bubble Markets Inventory Tracking, but I drew my own copy of it.
"Home foreclosures are up sharply in California" -- LA Times,
April 17, 2007
That's not up sharply.
This is up sharply.
Read the letters that the children write to the standard white Santa Claus
Maybe it's my imagination and I'm perceiving a regional correlation where none exists, but it seems to me that Jesus in Poland is unusually despondent.
These are all from Zakopane and Krakow. I saw a really good one in Gdansk, but I think I accidentally deleted that picture.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
Dear NPR,
Perhaps "correction" is too strong a word, but I wanted to point out that the Zimbabwean exchange rates cited this morning on
Weekend Edition are not consistent. The story begins by saying that a Zimbabwean 50-billion dollar note is worth 33 cents. In that case 1.2 quadrillion Zimbawean dollars are worth about 8000 U.S. dollars, not 4000 as is said at the end of the story.
Horrific as Zimbabwean inflation is, the money should not lose half of its value over the course of a 1:28 news story...
Update: NPR
issued a correction on their website. Do I get a tote bag or something? Apparently not.
Update: Okay, Scott Simon
acknowledged my letter on the air.
Sixth Street, we love it
At Regina's invitation, we went to the
SF/LA production of
The Taming of the Shrew at the
Cathedral of the Lady of the Angels. I thought the acting was of a pretty high standard. This was also the first time I've been to the Cathedral and it seemed nice enough, but I won't be buying any bottles of the Cathedral wine that was served at the reception. Afterwards: Full House Seafood in Chinatown with Brad, sinophonic Jerome, and Mark Dawson, who is moving back to Atlanta.
When the housemaids scrub the floors, they get the spaces in between
I had a short conversation with
Paul Mazursky who sat next to me in the Munich airport today:
PM: Is someone [sitting] there?
RM: No.To be honest I would not necessarily have identified (director, actor, and Oscar-nominated screenwriter and producer) Paul Mazursky as himself, but I later overheard him talking to an Iranian woman about
Moon Over Parador.
The night before leaving for Europe, I saw
Kevin Nealon in the lobby of the Groundlings Theater. At the same time we spoke briefly with
Phil LaMarr who had been performing at the theater that night.
These would be celebrity sightings respectively of the third kind (serendipitous interaction), of the second kind (serendipitous sighting), and of the first kind (predictable encounter where the celebrity is appearing professionally).
Celebrity Sighting Type
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Defining Characteristic
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First Kind
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Predictable encounter in a venue where the celebrity is appearing professionally
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Second Kind
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Serendipitous sighting
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Third Kind
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Serendipitous interaction
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Fourth Kind
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Trapped in an ATM vestibule
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