Lychee Season
Today, I went looking for lychee fruit. It’s the season: they’re best in June in the Northern hemisphere. (They’re also available in December if you fly them in.) I finally found them at the Koreatown Galleria market.
posted at 7:29 pm on Jun. 23, 2004
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Sinking into Google-blivion
Seems like I might be in trouble, Google-wise. After a run up the Google charts that has brought me all the way to #2 for “Travis Smith,” there’s a new T.S. in town.
posted at 11:58 pm on Jun. 13, 2004
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Dip and a Movie
Today: worth remembering, for no reason other than that it was pleasant and, while typical, isn’t something I do often enough. Hope this will remind me to do it more often.
posted at 2:51 am on Jun. 13, 2004
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The Origin of TTFN, Take Two: The ITMA Version
Two months ago, I wrote definitively that Disney came up with the phrase “TTFN,” meaning, “Ta Ta For Now.” But, as sometimes happens when I’m trying to be authoritative, I was 95% wrong. The phrase is currently heard mostly from Tigger. But it appeared in the media much earlier than that, in a WWII BBC radio show called “It’s That Man Again”, otherwise known as ITMA, that ran ten years from 1939 to 1949, starring Tommy Handley.
posted at 7:46 pm on Jun. 10, 2004
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Scrooge McNep, at Your Service
So I just added Google’s ads to my Web column today. It’s a little odd, like having a sponsor for your journal. “Dear Diary, today I asked Becky to the dance. She’s so pretty. I was so nervous I had to drink an entire DELICIOUS ORANGE FANTA™ to get up the courage.”
posted at 4:21 pm on Jun. 9, 2004
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