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MoveOn's Eli Pariser will be speaking in Boston Sunday, Oct. 2 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. The event, sponsored by Ford Hall Forum, will be held at Faneuil Hall. It is free and open to the public. The last 40 minutes of the program is reserved for questions from the audience, so please come to listen and to engage!

For more information, call Ann Sanders at 617-373-5800 or email [email protected].

While Geocaching in Medford/Woburn/Winchester this weekend doing a really cool series of caches about the Middlesex Canal, we came across this little glade with a menagerie of concrete alphabet animals in it. I didn't grow up here, and have never seen these before... so I found them endearing and lovely. I also thought they were horribly sad, because there was no one playing on or with them. The beach (Sandy Beach) was far away from these creatures. They should be moved closer to the fun.

I felt somewhat sad hanging around them, and totally enjoyed my 8 year old climbing on all of them.

Are any of you life-long Bostonians familiar with these creatures? Someone told me there used to be a similar grouping of these things in Nahant. Any other MDC parks have these (or do you remember some and they are no longer there?)

Dude, how come when I go to "our blogs," the last several entries are mine and they're all like a month apart? Does no one blog in their blogs?

In London, while enduring the aftermath of a terrorist attack, they print signs to ease turmoil. In Boston, well, chaos reigns...

At least 30 people were killed in England this morning.

At least 27 people were killed in Iraq this week.

The people killed in England were killed using deadly weapons.

The people killed in Iraq were killed using deadly weapons.

The people killed in England were killed by foreigners who had not been asked by the country's government to enter the country for the purpose of detonating weapons.

The people killed in Iraq were killed by foreigners who had not been asked by the country's government to enter the country for the purpose of detonating weapons.

The people killed in England were killed by people who are believed to have disagreed with England's government and who are not believed to have known anything specific about the people killed.

The following is from an email announcement I received:

Emergency peace demo Tuesday June 14, 10:30 to 1, Cambridge Common

Veterans for Peace are coming as early as 8 AM. Others are setting up grave markers in front of the churches.

This Tuesday, the Army and National Guard will try to solve their
recruiting crisis -- in Cambridge. They are bringing military bands and
honor guards, a parachute jump team, Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans,
Recruiting and Retention's Super HumVee, and a UH-60 "Blackhawk"
Helicopter to Cambridge Common for the 230th birthday of the army.

I just want to say that I am so sick of trying to remember passwords and what email address I used to register where, etc. etc.

Can't we just hurry up and get to the point where we all have those little fingerprint readers (what are they called, isometrics or something?) so that the universe can just recognize me by that? I promise to avoid getting boo boos on the pads of my fingers. Just stop the password madness!

Talk of the Nation had a story about Municipal WiFi today, with representatives from Chaska, MN, Philly, Verizon, and CNET (huh?).

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story...

For those of you that haven't heard the discussion between "the sides" of the Municipal WiFi debate, it's an interesting place to hear the opinions, including those of Verizon and public opinion. Requires real player or Window Media.

IMO:

- The CNET guy is an idiot (sometimes). He claims that anyone putting together a network with 802.11b is using 'old old' technology and it will have to be replaced in 3 years, thus implying that you shouldn't do it.

Two experiences tonight, the first wonderful and the second annoying.

First, the good news. I went with Evan to see Same Sex America at the MFA as part of the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Great movie and great audience. Lots of cheers, or boos and hisses when appropriate (especially when Gov. Romney's face appeared onscreen). The filmmakers were there, as were most of the cast members, and they had a nice question and answer session after the film. This kind of film festival (we're going to see Stolen at the Brattle Theatre tomorrow) is one of the great things about living in the big city.

I am only posting this here because I don't want to add any fuel over at my own site (http://www.bigdumptruck.com).

See, apparently, because I take random words and string them together to form semi-coherent thoughts, those random words can also be strung together in other ways. And apparently, something in this weeks entries have shot me to the top of the MSN search engine results if you are looking for...girls with big butts.

I did not write about girls with big butts. I certainly don't have pictures (if that's what they want). But yes, MSN is sending people to me. Maybe I should put a paypal link up and tell people I'll have my big butt send them a personal email - and then I'll just sit on the keyboard.