An Exercise in Avoiding Boredom

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It is July 5th and I did my favorite triangle trip: Mountain View, Gilroy, Aptos, and back to Mountain View. Not much going on in Gilroy, just the usual 4th of July weekend shopping. Highway 152 West through the Santa Cruz mountains was open, no fire in sight, and so I arrived at my favorite [...]

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I’ve always enjoyed the high-tech toilets that you can find in modern Asia. They keep themselves clean, warm up when you sit on them, and some even scrub your behind if so desired. The author of an article discussing the Japanese toilet below raves about these qualities.

My reality in the U.S. is rather different. [...]

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A friend recently challenged me regarding a prior post on honor student bumper stickers. Specifically, he didn’t believe that someone would put an offensive bumper sticker on their car because he thought everyone would worry their car might get scratched. (You can tell my friend is German, as it is a common German neurosis that [...]

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According to GraphJam, that is. (Don’t ask me what GraphJam is, I don’t know. Seems to be some kind of wasting-office-hours service. I’m looking at it from home, of course…)

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Below, you can see how things looked like last Sunday for brunch.

Krista, click on the photo to get a higher-resolution version to browse and zoom.

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Seen today on my way to work, on a car’s bumper, a sticker with the following message:
My car cost more than the education of your honor student.
(In the U.S. cars frequently have stickers on their bumpers saying “my child is an honor student at Podunk elementary school”).

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The fumigation of that house in my neighborhood took only a day before it got untented.

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The hoopla around same-sex marriage on the radio today is deafening. The more amused I was when a friend sent me a link to this photo, courtesy of one “joestump” on Flickr.

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You may have seen it on American TV and not believed it. But it is true. Seen in my neighborhood, fortunately not too close to where I live.

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