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Allison's and Jodi's online birthday has ended! Check out what happened in the online party archives.
We're going to the cottage for Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, back on Monday or Tuesday. Have a great weekend, everyone!

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post-turkey

Back from the cottage, obviously. Went hiking, canoeing. Ate way too much turkey. Spectacular Northern Lights on Friday night...huge sheets of light rippling across the sky, tinged with reds and greens. Fell in love with a boy named Spencer Powell...link coming soon. TODAY'S SITE: DT 70s Site.

milky way withdrawal

Jodi is off to Winnipeg today; Allison and I are flying up on Friday, courtesy Dave Clement and the Winnipeg Musician's Hat Fund. We'll be checking out Keycon and some of the Winnipeg sights (hopefully they won't be too wet).
Today's Site: What Is The Meaning Of Pez?. Thanks to Scott Snyder for pointing this fine essay out.
My jar of Milky Way is empty. Argh.

MILKY WAY WITHDRAWAL
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Lovingly dedicated to Diana Huey The Milky Way Pusher

See me cowering in the corner
Drooling and inflicted
And it's all DIANA'S FAULT...
She got me addicted
to that insidious gloppy gloop
I ate it every day
and now there's not a smidgen left
I'M HOOKED ON MILKY WAYYYYYYYYY!!!!

THE END

To be fair, however, I should point out that Diana has given Rand two jars of the stuff to give to me when I visit him and Tanya in Buffalo in a couple weeks. But how am I going to hold out until then?!

man outside my window

There's a man outside my window! He's suspended with ropes, and appears to be doing something to the wall. He might be painting graffiti beside my window for all I know: "BEWARE! NET ADDICT WITHIN!" Thanks to Sherman Dorn for sending me the Debbie's Chocolate Delight biz card! SPACE BLATHERINGS:
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controversial Cassini probe started its 11-year, 2.2 billion mile journey early this morning. If all goes as planned, it will rendezvous with Saturn in 2004, when it deposit a probe on the surface of Titan, the largest moon. Speaking of the next century...only 115 weeks and 3 days until the year 2000. POLL: what do you think that first decade should be called? We've been through the seventies, eighties, nineties...what comes next?? Also, what's your opinion about the Computer Program Millenium Problem?
SITE OF THE DAY: The Year 2000 Information Center.

ut comic

The guy outside my window was apparently testing cladding or scadding, or some other word I can't recall now but means a part of the exterior wall. No graffiti. Jeff and I talked to our Californian friend Andrew (check out his exciting home page, which rivals Jeff's in its clever simplicity and clarity of vision) on the phone for a little while yesterday, and I (an obsessive multitasker) doodled in Painter at the same time. So thanks to Andrew, the UT Comic is actually updated. The current storyline is courtesy Mark Osier (be afraid! :-)). SITE OF THE DAY is also courtesy Andrew: Celebrity Atheists, Agnostics, and other Non-theists. A few days ago I mentioned the new love of my life, Spencer Powell. Sadly, I've discovered that his webpage is horrifyingly out-of-date (i.e. no recent pics) so you will only be able to imagine how cute he really is at present. ( 3:32 PM Update: woohoo, there *are* more recent pics of Spencer! Check out http://www.oakdeane.com/kidspace/, especially this great photo).