Dowbrigade

The Electronic Village has it’s rules and regulations. No food or drinks at the station. No e-Mail or web access. Basically the place exists for demos of small-cap or homemade learning software.
The No Web prohibition is particularly galling since most of the good learning and teaching resources available today ARE ON […]

Popping back up this morning from beautiful Southern California, we are officially in “Arnold Country” now. Got in late last night and of course, with the convention in full swingy, 7,000 wacky ESL eccentrics swarming over this small city, there were no rooms at the inn.
Drove around til we found a dive, with a […]

Just a quick post from the office before we head to the airpost. It was surprisingly easy to cut the cord on our cable modem this morning - the server was down when we tried to post at 6 am (its hard to sleep in when you are sleeping on a naked futon in […]

Let the healin’ begin…..

We can’t cut the cord. Everything else is cut, cancelled,
discarded or stored. The cats are gone, to a legal studio in East Cambridge.
Number two son is gone, finally moved out by the force and finality of
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Better
hurry up with that digital downloading. The government wants to impose
penalties of up to ten years in prision for downloading a single file….
A
draft bill recently circulated among members of the House […]

Picking
your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according
to a top Austrian doctor.
Innsbruck-based lung specialist Prof Dr Friedrich Bischinger said people
who […]

Pain.
A transitory state of nerve excitation with an infinite number of causes
and textures. Can be overcome with certain advanced
mental techniques, or narcotics, or both. Preferably both.
We are almost
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The
Church of Days Later Savings has a new saint. Saint Jean of East Cambridge
has appeared out of nowhere to offer sanctuary to the Dowbrigade
cats for the duration of the Great […]

Despite having a “confirmed” reservation for YESTERDAY U-Haul STILL doesn’t have a truck for us (turns out “confirmed” means “depending on availability” and is basically a scam so you don’t go rent somewhere else), so we are busily moving an entire two bedroom apartment in our trusty ten-year-old Toyota wagon. Is that low-rent, or […]

The
finished product of Chilean-born Danish artist Marco Evaristti’s "Ice
Cube Project" is seen in Ilullissat, Greenland, Thursday, March
24, 2004. Evaristti used 3,000 liters (780 gallons) of dye used to highlight
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It’s
moving day, for better or worse. Already emotional and physical wrecks
over the preliminaries, today we are supposed to
get the bulk of our stuff out of 396 Salem St. in Malden just […]