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Living in Como Park is great. I am within walking distance from a conservatory, a zoo, a lake, a golf coarse, a wonderful natural woods, and many, many activities that are going on almost nightly.
Como Park is almost too much of a good thing judging from the traffic and parking congestion.
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I first started reading Nova Spivack’s blog “Minding the Planet” when I was beta testing Six Apart’s Typepad blogging tool. I remember a post in 2004 titled, “Minding the Planet: From Semantic Web to Global Mind”. I have been waiting four years to be part of this vision and my wait is almost over.
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I had a really great time at my 40 year reunion in Appleton, Minnesota. I created a website so we can share stories and photos and prepare for our next reunion in 2012. The address of the AHS1967 reunion website is ahs1967.ning.com/
Find more photos like this on AHS1967

Warren Oglesby caught 3 walleyes this size in Appleton, MN. July 4, 199?.

Augustus Owsley Stanley III, still known as “Bear” is now 72. Bear agreed to give The San Francisco Chronicle an interview because a friend asked him. He has rarely consented to speak to the press about his life, his work or his unconventional thinking on matters such as the coming ice age [...]

I will be going to my 40 year high school reunion next month. The summer of 1967 is featured in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Their list of the top 40 albums from 1967 illustrates the significance of that year. I did not catch up with that scene until ten years later.

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My friend, Bob Halvorson died June 1, 2007 from liver cancer at age 56. Some of his classmates asked if I would take their photo. I said they might try finding it on the internet by doing a image search for Art Oglesby and Appleton. The high res photos are in my ARTiFactor Picasaweb album [...]

My friend, Bob, is liquidating his collection of books online. He is using LibraryThing to create a database including title, author, reviews, tags, etc. I really like what his author tagcloud looks like. The more books one has by an author, the bigger the font is for that tag. If you exclude authors from the [...]

A friend I grew up with is dying from liver cancer. He has only a few months left to finalize his affairs. One task he has chosen, is to liquidate his collection of books, mostly science fiction. So far he has sold about 10 % of his 3000+ books (via e-bay venders, I think).
What would [...]