Category Archives: Living Room Times

Masthead madness

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Earlier today, as I pondered the “All the Nose” debate — and the subsidiary question of what to do with all that white space in the blog masthead if I eliminate the subtitle — I had a brainstorm. What if I use one of my panoramic pictures, or better yet, a rotating series of them, as a photographic backdrop for… Read more »

Iranian regime launches all-out massacre [UPDATE: conflicting reports]

It sounds like today was a day of horrific violence in Tehran (WARNING: graphic photo on linked page). Excerpt: An Iranian blogger (whose URL I will not publish) live blogging from Baharestan Square in central Tehran today captures but brief glimpses of the unimaginable horror that took place today. Bus loads of protesters were stopped and unloaded from their buses… Read more »

Baby Pool Redux

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[UPDATE: I’ve bumped this post up, and edited it slightly, to encourage entries. -ed.] As most of you know, Baby Girl Loy #2, a.k.a. “Loyacita,” is due on July 8. As we did with “Loyette,” we’re running a Baby Pool to predict the little one’s birth date, time, weight and height. The deadline to enter (or modify your previous entry)… Read more »

Photos from Iran

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The Boston Globe‘s always exceptional photoblog, The Big Picture, has a typically fantastic post about the Iranian uprising, titled “A troubled week in Iran,” featuring great photo after great photo of the turmoil, all 990 pixels wide. This follows on the heels of three previous posts with photos of the election and subsequent protests. Lots of great stuff. Definitely worth… Read more »

What you’ve missed

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Here are some things that I’ve done, seen, and taken pictures of, since I went on my “blog hiatus” last November: USC vs. Notre Dame at the L.A. Coliseum, November 29, 2008: Planetary conjunction over Denver, December 1, 2008: Toby in front of our fireplace, December 21, 2008: Pretty pictures of the Superstition Mountains, December 25 and 26, 2008:

Ch-ch-ch-changes…

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As noted in my official blog-launching post at midnight this morning, I’m returning to the blogosphere today after a seven-month hiatus with a new blog under a new (old) name: The Living Room Times, the title of my old school newspaper. I’ll have more to say about that name, and its history, a little later. But the name of this… Read more »

Lunar flyby set for this morning

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I have various additional introductory blog posts scheduled to go online throughout the day today, but in the mean time, blogworthy stuff is happening in the world — and the cosmos. Specifically: [This] morning, NASA’s LCROSS spacecraft will fly by the Moon only 9,000 km above the lunar surface. The purpose of the encounter is to put LCROSS in an… Read more »

Well, I’m back

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*   *   *   *   * Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East, Whispers of a nameless fear. And the Blog of Power perceived: Its time had now come. *   *   *   *   * I’m back, baby. After more than seven months in… Read more »