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For those who are not familiar, there is a tradition every year when millions of Jews wake up following holiday festivities and groan in pain. Passover is a kind of fast from low density (aka leavened) food. Our systems are not designed to deal with high-density food alone. There should be a section of the [...]

After hearing Obama and Thompson on NPR All Things Considered last night I felt the need to post some of my observations. You can really tell why Doug and I gravitate toward Thompson and Obama respectively. Both men project a distinct air of honesty about them. The responses to assertions that their lack of spin [...]

Every once in a while a post does not get picked up by feed readers. I don’t understand why but I am hoping this will flush the last post through.

Google maps directions: swim

Originally uploaded by courgettelawn.

You’ll need to be more than a world class swimmer to cross to New Jersey.

One of the nice features of Google Sketchup is the use of abstract human billboards as a size gauge. Someone added a set of figures that has earned quite a few style points in my estimation. Here they are in front of my house:

Or why I have not been posting
Overcoming Procrastination
Except:
Procrastination or “task aversion” is the irrational delay of an intended course of action, even while expecting to be worse off for the delay (compare temporisation). The procrastinator deviates from the task, usually in favor of another more enjoyable (or less unenjoyable) activity. This behavior is pervasive throughout [...]

I have now added some automated Technorati integration to this Wordpress blog which will hopefully make it more integrated with a tag based internet. I addded the Wordpress TechnoTag which allows you to add <ttag>’s around a term that relates to the subject of the post or comment. The TechnoTag plugin has a little bit [...]

Trying to get Technorati to properly recognize this site. Just ignore.
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And there was much rejoicing …yay… Hopefully this is now new and improved version of Rubinium.org with category icons links to the galleries and regular posts even