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February 24, 2009

Geek Thrills

As a Stanford University graduate forced to share holiday celebrations with siblings from UC Berkeley, I've had to endure lots of ribbing. So I'm not one to reflexively heap praise on the Blue and Gold. But even I have to give it up for the Weenies--er, Bears--on this one.

UC Berkeley "Nano Nano" Song

Check it out, it's very well done!

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Picturing 2011

They say a picture's worth a thousand words, give or take a few megabytes. Here again are some of my highlights for 2011. There's at least one photo from every month... except for March, since I didn't want to venture out in the continuous rain.

Garden 2011

A brief tour of what we grew--or tried to grow--in our Spring/Summer 2011 garden

Garlic Time

Picture of my first crop of garlic grown in... where else?

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