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judgemental birds

February 29, 2008

Occasionally I have reason to leave my office desk to print out labels over in the Unio room of the department. This means I have to walk out into the HMNH gallery of mammals. The lower part of the gallery is, for sure, full of mammals, and whole whale skeletons are right at eye […]

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techno geo photo

February 28, 2008

so I don’t use GPS, but i love the idea, and we’ve had lots of mapping talk and some training here at work for GIS, though my department
doesn’t really deal in it since the vast majority of our collection only has information as detailed as “right side of Waianae Ridge, Hawaii,” or “near New Caledonia,” […]

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新年快乐！百年！

February 7, 2008

Happy New Year, and welcome to the year of the rat. Today is Spring Festival, or the lunar new year… and as it’s the rat, it’s the first year of a new 12 year cycle. Things that happen this year are supposed to set the pace for the whole cycle, which is pretty […]

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music listened to in january…

February 4, 2008

Well, January’s over and it’s a good time to look at my listening habits for the month. Here’s who I’ve been listening to:
Daft Punk
Portishead
Röyksopp
Dntel
Benassi Bros.
Otis Redding
Wilson Pickett
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Spanky Wilson & the Quantic Soul Orchestra
Lou Rawls
Imogen Heap
Zoe Keating
Rabbit in the Moon
Underworld
Shanghai Restoration Project
The Birthday Massacre
Poe

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