Category: Media
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Amazing Wax Figures
La Specola – Art and Wax Modeling Museum features some stunning works. They were cast from carved up cadavers so it has sort of a macabre feel to it. I’m just amazed at how detailed they seem (at least judging from the photos). I’d love to see them in person. That reminds me, I’m running…
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Let’s Wake the Dead
The Devils Trampingground is a fun little bit of creepiness. Or at least, it’s as creepy as you can get with cartoony looking flash movies.
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The Difference Between Good and Great
I might need to get a subscription to The New Yorker. I’ve never read it before, but they publish some great stories. I only recently discovered the writings of Malcolm Gladwell who is a regular contributor. Those are amazingly good. And now, I’ve just read with fascination Annals of Medicine — The Bell Curve, which…
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El Dorado Nature Center
After a gray and rainy day yesterday, today turned out to be absolutely beautiful. I wanted to take advantage of that, so I grabbed my camera and headed down to El Dorado Nature Center in Southern Long Beach. When I was about a block away (or so I thought), I noticed a park with people…
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Awesomest Book Report Ever
Flying Sharks, Flaming Swords, Pirates, Robots, Time Travel — I don’t remember any of that stuff being in To Kill a Mockingbird. Then again, it has been a really long time since I read it. In fact, to tell you the truth, I don’t remember anything at all about the book. Based on this most…
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Shoreline Village
I’ve decided that I want to learn how to sail. Actually, I decided that almost exactly 2 years ago, but now I’ve decided to do something about it. I had my first lesson today. It was kind of chilly out there on the water, but there was a nice sunset as we were heading back…
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Sideways Rocks
I went to see the movie Sideways this weekend. It was absolutely FAN…TAS…TIC! Go see this movie if you haven’t. Now, I want to drive up to Santa Barbara for a wine tasting tour (and I don’t even like wine).
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Great Animated Short
Remarkable … Stunning … Gorgeous … I lack superlatives to properly do justice to something like The Beauty Of life. Available in MPEG or DIVX, it’s completely worth the 52 or 32 megabyte download.
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A Not So Epic Future
I don’t buy most of what they’re talking about in EPIC 2014. I mean, I don’t even buy most of their analysis of the history much less their projections into the future. I guess time will tell. It was semi-interesting though which is more than I can say for most of what I’ve seen on…
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Malibu Creek State Park
With the sun going down so early these days, I felt like I really wanted to get out an enjoy it on the weekend while I could. With that goal in mind, I headed up to Malibu Creek State Park for a hike to Century Lake. That’s a really nice hike. There’s a lot of…