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Pomp and Circumstance

nobody@vox.com(Steve Betz) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:21:52 -0800

It was a big day for Penny yesterday as she completed and graduated from her Family Dog I class. For the past month and a half or so, we’ve been working on sitting and staying and heeling and coming when called – all the things that are needed to...

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Lost My Coffee

nobody@vox.com(Steve Betz) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:34:31 -0800

Xkcd is usually pretty good -- but this is genius. Happy Friday!

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Compose Yourself

nobody@vox.com(Steve Betz) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:17:27 -0800

So, one of the things I’ve gotten to spend some more time with during my – err – sabbatical from gainful employment – is my piano. For those who’ve been around here a while, you might recall that a couple of years ago, I was stressing about and t...

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Sayonara Means Good-bye

nobody@vox.com(Steve Betz) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:29:26 -0800

I’m still bummed, so I’ll keep this short. Great season. Good playoff run and lost to a very good team that got more clutch pitching and better clutch pitching in this Series. Hideki Matsui (who had SIX RBIs tonight – holy crap -- and who hit t...

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What Would You Call a Social Networking Site for Scientists?

nobody@vox.com(Steve Betz) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:05:26 -0800

Today, the NIH announced that they are spending $27MM of your Recovery money on creating a social network for scientists in the biomedical research community. You can read about it here. The goal is summed up as follows: These Web-based initiat...

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Nightmare on Broad Street: Big Apple over Big Scrapple in Big Weekend

nobody@vox.com(Steve Betz) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:58:46 -0800

Coming out of the fog of the flu this week (the reason for a lapse in posting – so much for NaNoBloMo), I was excited about the Big Halloween Sports weekend that was happening in Philadelphia with both the Phillies and the Eagles against rivals fr...

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Our Mediocre Tops Your Terrible

nobody@vox.com(Steve Betz) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:05:05 -0700

Usually, NFC East rivalries are for hopefully good-natured trash-talking and for taking pleasure in another team’s defeats. For example, one of my favorite teams each week is the one that happens to be playing the Cowboys. But schadenfreude has ...

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That's It! The World Serious!

nobody@vox.com(Steve Betz) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:19:07 -0700

Last night, the Halos error-ed their way out of the ALCS in a horrific 8th inning, letting the NY Yankees capture their 40th American League Pennant, defeating the Angels 4 games to 2. That brings up the 2009 World Series against the defending C...

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Am I Reincarnated From an Ancestral Puebloan?

nobody@vox.com(Steve Betz) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:49:27 -0700

On one of our other days in Northern New Mexico, we left Santa Fe with our friends and traveled about an hour to Bandelier National Monument, which is just outside of the town of Los Alamos. Bandelier sits in the Frijoles Canyon and is the site o...

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Open Spaces

nobody@vox.com(Steve Betz) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:16:47 -0700

One of the things that I think I like most about New Mexico is that for the most part, no one lives there (45th among US states in population density). Coming from Southern California and having been born and raised in New Jersey (#1 in pop densi...

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