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Added another one to the collection tonight. I remember drop kicking this painting off the wall four years ago. But, let bygones be bygones, eh?
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Recently, Christine sent me her latest greatest. It is amazing.

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Another weekend in Austin. Full of good free food, booze, and randomness.

The Audiovox smt5600, my faithful servant of three years, finally gives up its ghost.

Put in an order for the first zero dollar phone I found at the AT&T store. No camera, just calls and text.

Perfect

Cost: ~$8
Cooking Time: 10min to prep; ~30m to cook (mostly unattended)
Serves: 6

Ingredients:

• 2 eggplants
• 2 large tomatoes
• a small bunch of Arugula
• whole wheat pasta

Herbs and Spices

• 1 bulb of garlic
• 1 pinch of sea salt
• 1 pinch cracked black pepper

Once, I watched this movie for its photography, but I was only looking skin deep. This film offers a slow contemplation on the cyclical nature of our journey; and it gives us a compelling metaphor for the inevitability of change and how we grow based on the choices we make.

photo by Chris Staefe

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

Notice the troop of little blue minder-thugs. Are they there just in case western countries consider abandoning protection of the flame from protesters? I doubt it, looks like a ceremonial message to the world, ‘we got it all under control’. Free Tibet, or maybe its too late?“These are tough times for the world’s democrats. The easy democratic transitions are history, the remaining partial democracies are stalled, and the newest liberal democracies are faltering as they struggle to hold on to past reforms. Chaos in Iraq, the tightening grip of Vladimir Putin in Russia and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, and the ability of China’s political elite to paint a veneer of international respectability on a deeply noncompetitive autocracy all seem to reinforce this gloomy picture…(more)” from Foreign Policy, How Democracies Grow Up, By Richard P. Cincotta