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  • My Life with Squirrels

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    Today Cathy sent me alink to this amazing photo of an albino squirrel near Jamaica pond taken by cottenmanifesto and posted at Loving Nature While Living in the City. Apparently its existence dominated the lunch conversation at her work today. The life of a squirrel can be a precarious one, as I witnessed earlier this…

  • JP Neighborhood Summit

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    Yesterday I attend a JP community summit at English High (the oldest public high school in the US) sponsored by the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood development corporation, an event which helped give me a better sense of what's going in the larger JP community. I've been getting to know my immediate Stonybrook neighborhood during the last…

  • Spring in the Public Garden

    Spring in the Public Garden

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    Finally after a long winter, it's begun to look and feel like spring, and we enjoyed it with a picnic near the pond in the Boston Public Garden. 

  • Missing the Pura Vida

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    This morning I'm back at JP Licks trying to get back into the dissertation groove, but since I have just a few minutes left before my battery goes dead, I'm going to take moment to post on my trip to Costa Rica. In typical fashion, I've been waiting to write a longer description of the…

  • Condo Cameo

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    At the Stoneybrook Neighborhood Association meeting in December, I met someone who used to live in the building next door to me and through our conversation discovered a bit more about the history of both buildings. Fifteen years ago when he bought the place, it had reputation as a drug house and had been condemned…

  • In Memoriam: Kurt Hanson

    In Memoriam: Kurt Hanson

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    This morning Andrew sent me an email with no subject line or content except a link to following Chicago Sun Times report: Man fatally struck by Metra train identifiedApril 11, 2008FROM STNG WIRE REPORTSWHEATON — A male pedestrian who was fatally struck by a Metra train in west suburban Wheaton Thursday afternoon has been identified.Killed…

  • Sweet Finnish Closed

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    Yesterday I was rode to my regular dissertation coffee shop, Sweet Finnish, on Centre St., only to see that it wasn't opened yet. In the interest of time, I decided to continue down to JP Licks, my other writing spot. Just I was leaving, one of the Sweet Finnish regulars came in and informed me…

  • DIY Slow Down Sign

    DIY Slow Down Sign

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    The other day this sign appeared just a few houses down the street in response to the cars that regularly barrel down Rossmore as they cut through to Washington. This has been a source of concern and complaint for several neighbors, and someone apparently was driven to take matters into his or her own hands.…

  • Drupalcon Boston 2008

    Drupalcon Boston 2008

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    It's been more than four years since I began using the open source appliction Drupal at the end of 2003, and it's come a long way in that time. This week more than 800 folks from around the world gathered in Boston to Drupalcon 2008 to geek out with fellow Drupalers at the Boston Convention…

  • An (Un-edited) Ecotone Reader

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    It seems like a long time ago that I first ran across the Ecotone Wiki and was first exposed to the notion of place blogging, a topic compelling enough to keep me slogging away on this dissertation for quite some time. I've enjoyed spending time with the folks involved in the wiki, reading their blogs,…