dialogues with an anonymous public v6.0beta

080721

pwdeegan — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:40:11 +0000

i made pasta from scratch, by hand last night. no mechanical rollers, no special cutters, just a small pastry rolling pin and a knife. rolling the pasta was not difficult, it was cutting each strand of pasta by hand that took too long. so i looked online for some kind of multi-wheel [...]

080720

pwdeegan — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:12:35 +0000

luke and holly visited saratoga springs this weekend, but missed them due to the standard conflagration of events. actually, it might be closer to deluge: rainy all day sunday, and saturday was just oppressively steamy. i normally ride down the big hill to the farmers’ market on saturday, but this time i couldn’t muster the [...]

080718

pwdeegan — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:38:46 +0000

i got a new powerbook for work. i do like the keyboard better than my macbook, and the aluminum does keep clean easier (especially easier than a white macbook), but i remember the lessons from my old aluminum powerbook: dents and dents everywhere. plastic never cracked on me; it just got hot and little surface [...]

080716

pwdeegan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:16:16 +0000

hot has returned. last week we put a small window 空调 in the living room for sashinka; she, like her mother, prefers cooler climes. she will do fine if she returns to the Mother Bear and Birch. even in her little urban gothic penitentiary she is a little heater; we keep fans constantly circulating [...]

080715

pwdeegan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:28:48 +0000

it’s all about stainless steel chain rings. at least as far as single-chain ring drive trains are concerned. surly’s rings are amazing: no bevel or pins to aid in shifting–just tall hard grinding teeth. it also weighs somewhere around 2-3 times more than my old sugino aluminum ring. i sincerely hope that this spells [...]

080711

pwdeegan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:02:11 +0000

i’ve steadily improved my return to the land of the semi-fit. a big part of that has been the refitting and rebuilding of my bicycle’s drive train. from the original 1993 bottom-end shimano parts (a trek 1200) i have replaced everything: a rapid-rise (low normal) LX long cage dérailleur with a sram 11-34 cassette, [...]

080429

pwdeegan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:33:31 +0000

it is high time to crank the starter; to lever every advantage from this scrawny sack of bones and sinew onto the rusty mechanisms. neglected or blight—who tends to the difference at this evening hour? well i’ll tell you, in the last three weeks we’ve watched the expected unpredictable transition from mono to polychrome. a [...]

080119

pwdeegan — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:54:38 +0000

you could imagine it one other way: the coral not red resists the punctulata rouge in small storms of stinging beige sand. a treacherous slow moving phalanx unconstrained nigh detached. the turbulence, ever shifting, bullies the fish, forcing them to swim swivel like weathercocks, finned ballerinas in wavering pirouettes; but the coral and the urchins [...]

071027 a brief remark on my sheepish head’s reemerging

pwdeegan — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:03:58 +0000

i’ve emerged out of my carapice, which was formed from the odd combination of return-home laziness and return-home business. but actually, there were many reasons, not the least of which was spotty connectivity, a Penske truck traversing the continent, two years of boxes to unpack and the two years of napthalene (or, as lovely 恺宁 [...]

070913

pwdeegan — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:36:58 +0000

we’re back! all of our stuff made it back, too. a perfect flight. and now we have perfect jetlag.

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Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0500

david luesink's (shanghai) blog
Shanghai is the Centre of the World

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Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Craig Murray

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rachel beth egenhoefer
excellent new media artist of the first order

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Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Plum Blossom Pavilion :: kate merkel-hess

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Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0600

UC Education Abroad Program Study Center - China
not bad notes on getting by and around in beijing (north area)

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Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Hengshan Road
business portal featuring local merchants (not all of them; just those that bought in)