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« Reply #375 on: October 12, 2007, 08:41:41 AM »
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poc may want to come back to SF when she hears about...

The Mrs Robinson Society:

http://www.mrsrobinsonsf.com/enchant.htm


forgive me, but that's altogether too weird.


Hey, welcome back!  How have you been?


i've been great! just returned from a two-week honeymoon in france. spent a week driving around lovely bretagne, and then a weekend in st. jean d'angély (where i used to live) with friends, and a few days in paris. god, i love the food: raw oysters and mussels, and all sorts of other things i only know how to say in french. then there's the sausage and cheese and wine and buckwheat whiskey and crepes and snails and frog legs and desserts and...sigh. there was a museum in there somewhere.

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« Reply #376 on: October 12, 2007, 08:52:49 AM »
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buckwheat whiskey


O-TAY!
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« Reply #377 on: October 12, 2007, 09:56:52 AM »
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buckwheat whiskey


O-TAY!


all that, and more! we drank that bottle before we left the country, but managed to score some delicious bretagne digestif called lambig. something made of honey...

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« Reply #378 on: October 19, 2007, 09:49:11 AM »
Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:

Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)
Let's get right to it.

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« Reply #379 on: October 20, 2007, 10:13:17 AM »
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Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:

Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)


i am finding it quite impossible to see her dancing any way BUT clockwise.

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« Reply #380 on: October 21, 2007, 11:33:27 PM »
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Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:

Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)


i am finding it quite impossible to see her dancing any way BUT clockwise.


I'm with POC on this one; I can only see clockwise.
“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”

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« Reply #381 on: October 22, 2007, 08:30:12 AM »
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Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:

Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)


i am finding it quite impossible to see her dancing any way BUT clockwise.


I'm with POC on this one; I can only see clockwise.


I'm demonstrably weird, I definitely saw it counter-clockwise the first time, before I even read anything about it being possible to see it go both ways.  After I read that & tried to see it the other way it happened pretty quickly that I could, and then it was nearly impossible to see it go counter-clockwise anymore.   Looked at it again just now & first I saw clockwise, and then I saw counter-clockwise.  

I guess I literally can't make up my mind.
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« Reply #382 on: October 23, 2007, 04:08:02 PM »
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Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:

Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)


i am finding it quite impossible to see her dancing any way BUT clockwise.


I'm with POC on this one; I can only see clockwise.


I'm demonstrably weird, I definitely saw it counter-clockwise the first time, before I even read anything about it being possible to see it go both ways.  After I read that & tried to see it the other way it happened pretty quickly that I could, and then it was nearly impossible to see it go counter-clockwise anymore.   Looked at it again just now & first I saw clockwise, and then I saw counter-clockwise.  

I guess I literally can't make up my mind.


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« Reply #383 on: October 24, 2007, 09:10:07 AM »
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Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:

Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)


i am finding it quite impossible to see her dancing any way BUT clockwise.


I'm with POC on this one; I can only see clockwise.


I'm demonstrably weird, I definitely saw it counter-clockwise the first time, before I even read anything about it being possible to see it go both ways.  After I read that & tried to see it the other way it happened pretty quickly that I could, and then it was nearly impossible to see it go counter-clockwise anymore.   Looked at it again just now & first I saw clockwise, and then I saw counter-clockwise.  

I guess I literally can't make up my mind.


fencesitter!!


I saw clockwise.  Then, reading the text, i glanced back and she was going counter.  Back to text, then back, and she's going clockwise again.  Can't get it to go back.
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« Reply #384 on: October 25, 2007, 03:02:11 AM »
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Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:

Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)


i am finding it quite impossible to see her dancing any way BUT clockwise.


I'm with POC on this one; I can only see clockwise.


I'm demonstrably weird, I definitely saw it counter-clockwise the first time, before I even read anything about it being possible to see it go both ways.  After I read that & tried to see it the other way it happened pretty quickly that I could, and then it was nearly impossible to see it go counter-clockwise anymore.   Looked at it again just now & first I saw clockwise, and then I saw counter-clockwise.  

I guess I literally can't make up my mind.


fencesitter!!


I saw clockwise.  Then, reading the text, i glanced back and she was going counter.  Back to text, then back, and she's going clockwise again.  Can't get it to go back.


i tried that trick. i still can't see it counter-clockwise. this is funny! :) i wonder how many other things we see so differently every day. sounds like coffee talk...

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« Reply #385 on: October 29, 2007, 12:19:00 PM »
David Byrne's bike tour of NY:
http://www.davidbyrne.com/journal/misc/10_07_07_DB_bike_video.mov

(Discovered this on Marcus' blog page on the BCO site. Well worth the 5 minutes or so.)
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« Reply #386 on: November 02, 2007, 07:35:35 AM »
One of the most amazing football endings ever:

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/248.0/popup/index.php?cl=4788157
“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”

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« Reply #387 on: November 02, 2007, 11:02:03 AM »
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One of the most amazing football endings ever:

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/248.0/popup/index.php?cl=4788157


gosh. i didn't even know that was legal.

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« Reply #388 on: November 05, 2007, 07:53:06 AM »
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

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« Reply #389 on: November 05, 2007, 01:25:44 PM »
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We be jammin', mon. Jammin' cellphones, that is:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/technology/04jammer.html?_r=2&ref=technology&oref=slogin&oref=slogin


i love it! where do i buy one? if only i can set it to:specific.