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I am proud of my newly-found fellow ithacans for their silent protest during former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s speech yesterday at Cornell (see 100 walk out on Ashcroft talk). This is one of the reasons we moved here.
The population here is aware of what’s going on in the world and is not afraid to […]

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At the start of deer season everyone is armed. Not really "everyone", mostly head trauma patients, drunks, or meth addicts. Even though Ithaca is left-wing central and often referred to as "10 square miles of sanity surrounded by normality", that normality leaks in at times. When hunting season starts, it gushes.
My one neighbor who counts […]

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I am so into this winter thing.
According to my wife from northern England, we saw some REAL SNOW the other day. I thought I was looking at snow when some little wispy things blew out of the sky. Supposedly those are snow flurries, not snow. Thicker globs of white stuff poured out of the sky […]

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Not Uma Thurman, but an Unidentified Munching Animal. While on a business conference call (stressing business here), my cell phone rang. It was my wife upstairs. "A strange animal is in the apple tree! (Everybody panic!)" I watched the tree for a while from a nearby window and there it was, a non-turkey, non-deer, non-rabbit […]

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Daisy (our new puppy) had to widdle in the middle of the night. It was my turn, so I put on her leash and went out the front door with the light on. We only walked about 15 steps when the sound of "big rushing animal" stopped us cold. We must have looked ridiculous […]

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Fall does a lot more than bring cool relief to those of us fed up with steaming hot days. You burnout surfers out there are thinking that as a northeast newbie I’m going to go on and on about amazing fall color. I won’t, well not a lot anyway. It is beautiful but it goes […]

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My neighbor hates leaves and, since she is retired, she has all the time in the world to contemplate this animus. Her hatred extends all the way into my yard, I discovered recently, where she hates my leaves for me. For some reason I am supposed to rake and gather up the leaves in the […]

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Ok Californians, you think you are ready to move here because your hyper-sensitive taste buds can deal with iceburg lettuce instead of the real stuff? What about bugs? Yes, they eat bugs. Check out the proof. See the happy youngster chowing down? They love them so much, they have a festival at Cornell every year […]

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For those of you thinking of moving here from California, be warned. That stuff that comes out of your lawn sprinklers actually falls from the sky here. Really! It also doesn’t shut off after 30 minutes which can be a real bummer.
Here’s another brutal discover. Check out the photo of my windshield. Looks like someone […]

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The contemptuous Ig Nobel prize recently landed on the desk of a Cornell researcher. Brian Wansink spent his time proving something that we couldn’t have possible known without science proving it: we eat because the food is there. REALLY? Gosh!
He took a bowl of soup, rigged it so that it continuously refilled, then stuck a […]

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