two fell swoops

Tim will soon write a post about our Valentine’s Day at White Castle. He will also probably take down this picture. But until then: UPDATE (by Tim): Yes, I’m weird about having pictures of my face on the  blog, so I took down the picture.  It’s still up at the White Castle Valentine’s […]

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Two items regarding backyard critters:
1. Have you seen a shaved squirrel running around Ann Arbor? My dad got us a squirrel-proof feeder for Christmas, which was working well until the other day - I looked out and a fat squirrel had knocked the thing on the ground and was kind of sitting upright in […]

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Next week (Dec 1-9) is buy local week. Read this blurb from Think Local First:
“Where you spend your money is a reflection of what you want your community to look like. If each member of our community spent just 10% more of their purchasing dollars at locally owned businesses, it would make a huge […]

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Living at a busy intersection, overlooking Main Street, we hear a lot of traffic noise - people singing in their cars, near-accident honks, weird smooth jazz tunes leaking out of SUVs.
The traffic is nice. I grew up near a busy intersection, have lived in big cities, and have learned to like hearing […]

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Last summer, the Swoops took a trip to South Dakota and recorded music. We just pressed our first installment of this project, a 4-song 7″ record that you can buy exclusively on December 1st at the Shadow Art Fair!
Here’s the blurb Tim wrote about the project:
In the Summer of 2007, we packed our car full […]

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Walking home from work one day, I thought the Washtenaw County Courthouse was broadcasting a nature tape outside their building on Huron between Main and Fourth.
Upon closer inspection, we discovered a gigantic host of sparrows and a murmuration of starlings, chirping and hopping from tree to tree. Put on a hat, and go see […]

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Please share your opinion. Sorry for randomness.
Given: a refrigerator with two temperature control dials.

Refrigerator Dial: Labeled 0-9, where O is warmest, 9 is coldest.
Freezer Dial: Labeled A-E, where A is warmest, E is coldest.

Both dials turn left to right, where 0 and A are on the left-most end of the dial.
If you adjust the dial […]

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Usually the emails from the U-M Dean of Students pass quickly through my email inbox with little to note. But as I skimmed one the other day, just before hitting the ‘delete’ button, a phrase caught my attention:
We are happy to share with you the reports we have had of great [U-M football] fan […]

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