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Animal Question

It’s a bandicoot.

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Steganography

Just a quick check: Does anyone know the species of the smudged animal in the right of my banner? Kristin thought it was just a smudge, no animal involved. But it is an animal, that I assure you. I’m still a little wired from my fender bender.

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Mostly Sort of Ready for Primetime

Well, the transfer process was mostly painless. Lots of categories, don’t you think? I wish I had something really clever to say right now about this, but it’s pretty very late. Goodbye, ye ptarmigans.

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Hey. I’m going to be switching to a blog, with WordPress, on a different host, sometime this weekend, along with 40 other projects. I’m really tired of Blogger grayouts. I’ll keep y’all posted when the migration happens.

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It took me a few months, but I finally figured out the RSS feed for Taverner’s Koans:http://www.taverners-koans.com/rss.php You think it would be simple for me, until you actually knew me.

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The vast, vast majority of people stumbling ‘pon my site are looking for information about ptarmigans. So here it is: The State Bird of Alaska. More of ‘em. OK, now I have some facts: 1st, don’t eat ptarmigans. They are nice and besides when did they ever hurt you? The Sea Ptarmigan was a Dutch [...]

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I have two quippy blog posts at withboots, the best-kept groupblogging secret evar! So, my quippy-post outsourcing to withboots will likely continue. But there’s some good stuff there. It’s kind of like the blogging equivalent of Dinner for Five, with 100% less cloy and Eggers-fawning!

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Taverner’s Koans is uploaded, (a)live, and well. Check it out. I’m pretty happy with it so far.

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Now I’ve lost two posts in a row. So I give up.

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In my blogger profile, it says how many words I’ve written on a particular blog. What I want it to do is to show how many words are mine, and how many are quoted from other people. I mean, get with it, blogger.

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I’ve finally broken down and joined the cool kids and have a Quicktopic for Ptarmigan. The Klink Family commenting for Ptarmigan 1.0 was, er, interesting to say the least (including frequent, not unkind, posts from Nala Del Blanca, my inverse self, which I swear I had nothing to do with). After awhile it started getting [...]

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Instead of blogosphere, maybe the correct term is blogoskerries. I mean, where is this sphere that people keep talking about?

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This here mineral explains some shit, kids, about minerals. Sincerely,

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Incidentally, the ptarmigan to the left in the image above is not in pain, nor dead. He or she is about to leap from a cliff. The cliff is difficult to see from that vantage/shade. I cannot say why the ptarmigan is about to jump. But remember, many birds tend to fly, so I think [...]

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Tracking those reading Ptarmigan, semi-far and semi-wide. Best google search finding this, ever: where i find food chain for a army ant #7, pagerank. True.

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The two words between “ptarmigan” in the dictionary are “psywar” and “PT boat.” HEGEMONY SANDWICH NOTED! Coming from the Scots Gaelic,

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‘pon Hypergolem’s recommendations, added some new minerals. Have received a legion of complaints that minerals aren’t divided by sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic. But I’m not a gem collector, a gemologist! I can’t afford to have afoot in the SOUL the nice little case with 64+ glass encasements so that no Mineral Touches Another. E.g., if [...]

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THOSE FOLK WHO CAME ACROSS THIS SITE BY SEARCHING FOR “PTARMIGAN” ON GOOGLE. Hello. I just wanted to clarify-and apologize, really-that this site really isn’t about ptarmigans. Not really. You will have to go elsewhere for ptarmigan-rich content: ptarmigans on the tundra, ptarmigans frolicing in the snow, or whatever they do. [...]

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Yes what do you know yes

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This is a test of the emergency ptarmigan system. Well what do you know.

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