Saturday, January 05, 2008

Some Stan Rogers for Dawn Coyote.

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Dawn replied to my New Year's shout-outs , noting that my post on lake ships made her think of the song "The Mary Ellen Carter...
Friday, January 04, 2008

Cold day at Port Henry.

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Taken from a window on Amtrak's Adirondack on December 22, this shot shows the Port Henry, New York railroad station, originally built ...
Thursday, January 03, 2008

Classic lake boats: a dying breed.

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In a couple of earlier posts ( here and here ), I've written about, and posted photos of, the unique ships (called, I've now learn...
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Free Fouad!

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In Saudi Arabia, it seems, blogging about political prisoners can land you in jail . See the New York Times story here . Update: As the l...
Tuesday, January 01, 2008

New Year's shout-outs.

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It's time to look back and acknowledge, with thanks, the folks who have encouraged and supported this blog over the past year. First, en...
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Sampling the Sam Adams Brewmaster's Collection

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Two days ago I bought a twelve pack of the Samuel Adams "Brewmaster's Collection", in which you get a couple of bottles of the...
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Monday, December 24, 2007

Christmas eve thoughts of a wanna-believer.

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Two Sundays ago, at a festive mass of lessons and carols, the Grace Church choir sang this: Adam lay ybounden, Bounden in a bond; Four tho...
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Monday, December 17, 2007

Yes, I'm still alive.

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I've survived my first attempt to teach a continuing legal education seminar to a class of other lawyers (got to be a tough audience); e...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007

More Bothy Band.

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While I'm sure that my earlier post was enough to convince you of their greatness, here they are, circa 1977, doing one of those amazi...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

First snowfall of the season.

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From the foot of Montague Street, looking westward to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, the harbor and lower Manhattan. From the Promenade, lo...
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Check out Brain Tracings

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Every once in a while I find a blog I think rates special mention as well as a place on my blogroll. The latest is Brain Tracings (Saw Thi...
Friday, November 30, 2007

Please be patient, my friends.

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Real life is about to interfere with my blogging time, again. I'll try to post when I can, but it's likely to be a bit spotty until...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

A day on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.

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Under a overcast sky, the rising sun illuminates lower Manhattan buildings. Early in the afternoon, the National Shipping Company of Saud...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Visitor number 10,000 is from Bexley, Kent, England.

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You visited my blog at about 9:30 p.m. your time on 26 November. Your ISP is NTL Internet, your OS is Windows XP, and you browse with Intern...
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Friday, November 23, 2007

The Hillary action figure is safe.

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Postscript to my screed on consequentialism.

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I posted earlier on this topic here . Aaron tells why, if you're shot down over enemy-occupied territory, it's much better to tak...

Visit number 10,000 is rapidly approaching.

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Even with slow traffic over the Thanksgiving weekend, S-AB is likely to reach the 10,000 visit mark in a few days. If I can identify my 10,...
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Monday, November 19, 2007

"Values voting" in Australia?

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According to this article in today's New York Sun , the Australian Labor Party, led by Kevin Rudd, holds a solid lead in the polls over...
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The Bothy Band

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The Bothy Band was one of my favorite traditional Irish groups. Here's an example to show why: The Bothy Band lasted barely four y...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

On quantification, and keeping score (not a sports post).

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The week before last, the New York City Board of Education released "A" through "F" letter grades for almost all (some w...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Paul Tibbets and consequentialism.

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A while back, I was planning a post on the topic of consequentialism; essentially, the belief that the ethical measure of an action or ina...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Fog.

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Brooklyn Bridge from northern entrance to Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park. Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn Bridge Park. Lower Manhattan from n...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Today, I'm proud to be a lawyer.

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I don't blog much about law. It's not that I find my profession uninteresting (far from it); it's just that I need a forum to e...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Blogitus interruptus.

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It's been over a week since I've posted anything, and I can sense my vast fan base getting restless. For a few days, I was busy wit...
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Brooklyn Heights Halloween

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All Saints' Eve is a very big deal in the Heights. People come from all over Brooklyn, even from other boroughs, to let their kids tric...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Not my long-promised Second Amendment post.

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The HK-47 is the Hello Kitty version of the AK-47. For more details, go to Glamguns , where you can also shop for Lady Di handguns, Martha ...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Hello, Daly City, CA.

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You're my 1,000th visitor for the month of October. This is the first month that I've reached the 1K visits mark. Thanks.

Double your pleasure; double your fun!

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The Red Sox have won. That doubles the number of their championships in the twenty-first century, and rates a double Li'l Macduff. As an...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Li'l Macduff keeps smiling.

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OK, daddy Twiff. Tell me you still think it's stupid for pitchers to bat. Dice-K proves that even AL hurlers can get that oh-so-import...
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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Farewell to BCS dreams.

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USF Bulls out of it with two losses, today's to Connecticut . Probably out of the picture for Big East title. How could things go so b...