New ants arrived today, in time to celebrate the 1 week anniversary of their Big Bang (the event in which their entire universe was created). By my count there were 21 ants shipped, 20 living and 1 dead. Not bad, and certainly better than the 8 living in the first batch. One old ant tried [...]
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First weekend away from the ants
I think my ants are depressed. They’ve lost the will to dig. I came in this morning expecting all sorts of new tunnels — after all, they’ve had 63 hours to work on it — but it doesn’t look like they’ve done any work at all. Lazy ants. At the moment all eight of them [...]
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They’re making progress. Seems like four of them do the actual work, while the other four hang out on the other side of the habitat. Don’t know what that’s all about… union regs or something. I ordered more ants today from the Internet guy. That should kick things up a few notches.
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We have ants. Intentionally, this time. Sherri bought me Fascinations ANTW2 Antworks Illuminated for my birthday. Ants are separate; they arrived today. I’m finding it difficult to photograph the Antworks effectively, so bear with me. They may improve as I practice. Click the photos to link over to Flickr, where you can click All Sizes [...]
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Link: “The Sarah Silverman Program.” (2006) The best thing on Comedy Central since they canceled Strangers with Candy is The Sarah Silverman Program. It’s not for everybody, but if you consider yourself a fan of Mr. Show, Arrested Development, or Strangers with Candy, it’s worth a look. Thursday nights, 10:30pm. CLARIFICATION: I’m referring to Strangers [...]
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Blog entry: WWdN: In Exile: what happened to digg? I swear that Wil at wwdn:ix beat me to this topic only by a day or two. As I hit Ignore on yet another a-hole commenter over at digg.com, something inside me snapped. I realized how insane it was for me to spend time moderating a [...]
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News: Murphys rule box office with Norbit – CNN.com We are lost.
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Blood test results are back. Cholesterol is 169 (under 200 is good), triglycerides are 103 (under 149 is good).
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Good morning. It’s quite windy, too, so this reading doesn’t take wind chill into account.
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News: BT expands U.S. reach with INS deal My company was purchased by British Telecom, it was announced this morning.
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