Greensboro Birds

Looking for a free online photo editor? I’m intrigued by the rise of the netbook (Sellout.Woot’s offering an older model today for $160) and read Clive Thompson’s history of these wee machines on Wired.com today. He mentions losing his install disk for Photoshop and subsequently discovering online photo editor FotoFlexer.com. I thought I’d give it [...]

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In his speech to Congress last night, President Obama said:
“We will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.” [Transcript here.]
Background to the punchline to come: Some of my work takes the form of reediting books that have [...]

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The Bluebird of Happiness flew over Rockingham County this afternoon when the county commissioners made and approved a motion to rescind and postpone our property tax revaluation until 2011. Huzzah! Now we keep an eye on them this spring and summer to make sure they don’t ratchet up our tax rate to make up the [...]

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How many pictures does one have to take to get a mostly in focus Cedar Waxwing? One hundred thirty-two. If you’re me, that is. Waxwings have a knack of flying off just as I hit the shutter. I have a lot of awesome shots of empty branches and blurry bird legs. I think that sound [...]

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On Monday, February 9, at 12:30 p.m., Lunch laid her first egg. It’s a blue egg, which matches her earlobes. Lunch, contrary to our original information, is not a Welsummer, but is an Easter egger—EE for short. Besides the blue egg, her little pea comb, lack of wattles, her ear muffs, and slate-colored legs back [...]

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