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Life in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont

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Friday, October 20, 2006

Friday and the White House

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On Friday morning I got up early as I usually do. I spent an hour or more downstairs and outside with my Coke, cigarettes and new NCTM publi...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

The Ride to Washington DC (Thursday)

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Now I know why business on Amtrak is disappearing. There is little separating them as a passenger train from a cattle car. We arrived in Whi...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

Can Cats Predict the Weather?

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This photo of Mouse was taken with the iSight camera on my MacBook using an automator script on November 10, 2006 at 9:40 PM. I have been th...
Friday, September 01, 2006

To-Dos: Life Poster

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I just read on the smalldog.com blog about a Life Poster that you can make from iPhoto for wedding or graduation presents, etc. So try it ...
Monday, October 31, 2005

NexSat Weather Satellite Movies of the Great Storm

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I was browsing through my news feeds tonight and found a hint at macosxhints.com about making weather movies. One of the comments led me to...
Sunday, October 30, 2005

Barton Mountain Alliance

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go to http://bartonmountainalliance.org/ I was afraid I had missed all the hearings but there is one more (date unknown, cancelled due to we...
Friday, October 28, 2005

Nor'easter Posts & Wrap-Up

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My entries on the storm end with five media accounts about it (six if you count this one!). Here is a listing, in order, of the entries: (al...

Snow Topples Trees, Power Lines - News - MSNBC.com

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Snow Topples Trees, Power Lines - News - MSNBC.com : "Snow Topples Trees, Power Lines MONTPELIER Vt. - Heavy, wet snow fell across the ...

Friday, Oct. 28: The storm is over

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4 AM: I quietly sign-out and drive home in the dark. The village is so quiet and the street lights are reassuring. It isn't as cold as I...

Thursday, Oct. 27: It won't end.

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3 AM: panic. It is now 52 downstairs and I cannot get warm. I have three shirts, a bathrobe, two pairs of socks, and slippers on. I have a b...

The Storm is Still Here (Wed., Oct. 26)

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I woke up right at 5 AM just like usual. I had called Dwayne Tuesday night and told him I couldn't get to work because the car was in Co...

The storm is here (Tues. night, Oct. 25)

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I left school at 4 PM and the roads were wet and the fields and mountains were green. But the rain was just beginning the change over to sno...
Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Vermont (Tuesday morning, Oct. 25)

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As often as I could I looked on the net for data about the elevations of towns in the NEK. I found this article and highlighted the relevant...
Monday, October 24, 2005

Winter Storm Watch

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It doesn't make for a very good start to your day when, at 5 AM, you see the first of many updated watches. A huge low pressure system f...
Sunday, October 23, 2005

The Cats are Distraught

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We woke up to this. Of course, at 5 AM we can't see a thing so we all stayed in. As the sun rose we couldn't believe our eyes. At fi...
Saturday, October 22, 2005

Lost weekend

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I've been working on the computer for two days now, just cleaning things up and playing around. Friday Camille and I went to Montpelier ...
Saturday, October 15, 2005

Mathematics Club topics

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NIM Symbolic Logic Games/Puzzles Math Trail Contests Paper-folding Origami Orienteering Codes/cryptography Alphametrics/cryptarithms GIMPS S...
Sunday, May 15, 2005

Duck Pond Road

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I took a birthday ride this afternoon after brunch in Newport with Amy, Dwight, and Andy and all of the little dogs. It was nice. I had ...
Saturday, May 14, 2005

Tires

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Last Friday, May 6, I had my snow tires taken off. They were in such bad shape they were illegal: they were worn past the tread and the ...
Saturday, August 21, 2004

Buddy and the Porcupine

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Yesterday we went to my mother's house to deliver corn that Sarah B., a CCV student of mine, had given me when she stopped at the house ...
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Andree
Barton, Vermont, United States
“The Egyptian word for ‘cat’ is myw; when the missing vowels are inserted, this becomes meey’auw.” Eli Maor in Trigonometric Delights. Violets by Clarissa Munger Badger, a Connecticut botanical illustrator, 1806-1889.
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