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In which Jason Newquist posts things on the internet, folly that it is.
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Stuck in the Year 1000?

July 4th 2008 in Found

If you happen to hop on the the time canoe, you need to have read this.  Be sure to read the comments.

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20 year-old habits

June 27th 2008

In the last 72 hours, I started parting my hair on the opposite side. 
The number of habits I’ve developed over the years with the same hair style is unbelievable.  I’m catching my muscles doing things the wrong way every 15 minutes.

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Situational Associations

June 7th 2008

I’ve been yucky sick for about 3 days now.  Yesterday morning, I had a particular sensation that caused a flare of memory.  It was actually more like a stack of partial memories, or aspects of particular moments.
Specifically: I remembered a certain mental image of dark wood and the green of trees in the office park [...]

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Off the grid, then… no, still mostly off…

May 6th 2008

Work (and really the transfer to the new group, and then a sort-of project assignment which upped me time commitment to like 150% of what’s sane, to help fix some really important stuff up) has eaten my brain. Or, it’s been gnawing on a good part of it.  …Until a nice surprise opportunity to [...]

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Themes. Yeah, I know.

April 12th 2008

My vast and loyal readership have indicated that they are sometimes confused when the look of the site changes.
So let me say this: We hear you.

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Full Day

March 31st 2008

Let’s see.  What happened today?
Last night, all 3 kids ended up in bed with Eon and I sometime around whe-the-hell-knows AM.  We extracted them back into their own beds I don’t know when, and this lasted not long enough to get any real rest.  All I remember is Jack’s elbows in my face and his [...]

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Cloning See’s Butterscotch Squares, attempt #1

March 31st 2008

A couple points by way of preamble, here.
See’s Candies was founded not quite 90 years ago in a part of California which shall remain nameless.  At some point, sanity prevailed and the headquarters was moved to San Francisco, where it remains today.  I grew up with the stuff, and over the years my tastes have [...]

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All That Remains

March 30th 2008

Eon’s out tonight, so we ordered special “daddy dinner” pizza.  As you can see from the image, from an extra-large pizza, the boys consume all but about 50 degrees.  And they’re not even four.

(Click to enlarge, and see the tape measure at right.)

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Hide and Seek

March 29th 2008

In the last couple days, the children have learned the game of hide and seek, and are playing it actively.

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