Galaxies clash in four-way collision

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Peter’s Mum passed away peacefully a little after 9 AM our time.
Lost for words, for once…

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Last night we got back from visiting Peter’s mum in the hospital up north…and it’s an understatement to say that neither of us were happy to see a woman previously so vital looking so frail, and half the time fighting for every breath.
Now this morning came a message from Peter’s sister saying that she’d been […]

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Dear folks,
Just a quick note to let you know that things are about to move into a considerably higher gear on the “Big Meow” project.
A word first about the health situation here, since it has been interfering in a big way, and some of you will want to know how things are. My gall bladder […]

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From Lou Romano’s wonderful blog.

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Viagra reduces hamster jetlag.

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So I’m sitting here wrapping up book packages and getting caught up on the email, and were_gopher sends me this link. (Thanks Om!) And now my birthday is complete before it’s barely started.
 
The full story is here. Go, read, be happy. (The piccie also appears in the large version here, at […]

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But only because all you nice people keep asking. (If you don’t want to read a few paragraphs of what my mother used to refer to, in other people, as “the organ recital”, for Ghu’s sake look away now.)
Short version: I’m ok, and improving as we get control of the situation. I am no longer […]

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(An afterthought: Peter Murray would have been amused by both of these…)
Tinky Winky speaks out on Jerry Falwell
From GoApe (T-)Shirts: ATAT Walker in Veterinary Collar

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The Young Wizards discussion forums have lost a steadfast moderator and a good friend. Peter Murray died yesterday in hospital in the UK.
He is going to be so missed by the many Forum members to whom he was guide, mentor and fellow jokester in chat, an endless source of useful advice on the Forums, and […]

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To those folks who have outstanding requests for books that still need to be dealt with: Please bear with me for a day or so. I spent most of yesterday and some of today dealing with what I now discover was a gall bladder attack… and frankly I’m not in the best of shape right […]

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24 Hours of Flickr

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 Just down from space: Nasa’s paired solar imaging satellites (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory, or STEREO; what a bunch of wiseacres they are over there) have sent back the first 3-D images and movies of the Sun. Yum yum.
(Some of these might be better with the red/green glasses, but they work OK for me. Especially […]

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I’m in the middle of crazed work on about five different things at the moment, but sometimes you come across something so cool that it has to be shared immediately.
An animation of the Bayeux Tapestry: at YouTube
(courtesy of The Classical Bookworm)

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As only he can.

For an organization that exists (purportedly) to “honor” the craft and profession of cooking, the Beard Foundation continues to send a message of continued cluelessness and disregard.  With their most recent startegic masterstroke, they have, yet again, sent the message, “We like famous chefs just fine–especially if we’re handing ‘em the Cuisinart/Vulcan/Fiji […]

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A tremendous film talent lost. And his son, too, just getting started on his own career.

Tuesday was usually family night for film director Bob Clark — best known for “A Christmas Story” and the “Porky’s” movies — and his grown sons, Ariel and Michael.
Ariel, 22, who had been studying music composition at Santa Monica […]

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Harcourt Trade Publishers will be releasing the mass-market paperback edition of Wizards at War on June 1, 2007.

Amazon.com has now made the book available for pre-order. You can pre-order your copy using this link (or by clicking on the image to the right.)
What’s it all about?
After returning from a hectic wizardly holiday, Nita and Kit […]

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The Once and Future Republic of Vermont

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…most likely because it’s spring, and beekeepers are starting to discover empty hives…
“Crops — and our wallets — may get stung by bee problems”
(Funny how we don’t notice till it’s our wallets that get stung.)

About one-third of U.S. food depends on animal-borne pollination, and 80% of that is conducted by commercial honey bees. Among the […]

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From a poster called “HumanEnhancement” at AintItCoolNews.com:
Peter David… royally screwed up those “Star Trek” novels he wrote, much like his wife Diane Duane.
(snort) (ROTFL)
Peter was amused. …So was I.
(And I’ll be even more amused after I get all this tea cleaned out of the keyboard.)
Technorati Tags: Peter David, Peter Morwood, Diane […]

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