Which is sad in a way, because satellite archeology is growing field, and I suspect that there a lot of sites inside Israeli borders that hi-rez satellite photos can help direct scientists to...

Yeah, I don't buy it either. The pain was getting progressively worse. I didn't use it today and there's no knee pain.

Allyson!

In the rounds of loading your book to friends, the one who borrowed it now wrote me an e-mail yesterday saying "I LOVE Allyson. She writes about *me*! Me! ME!".

So how long DOES it take to get from Cairo to the border?

I guess it depends on more than just the distance - the quality of the roads, the cars, and the like. Sorry, no idea. But I still wish you could miraculously skip here, just for a bit. It doesn't have to make sense, right?

[Edit: I seem to have lost all ability to write a doesn't-need-an-Edit post]

Nilly, yesterday the guys at work were asking about my next book, and the ones who have read it all say your chapter is their favorite. "The one about Nilly!" So you have fans.

Everything I touch is continuing to go squirrelly.

Allyson, I'll stay far from your knee.

So how long DOES it take to get from Cairo to the border?

I'm sorry, I have no idea.

Work's done. Weekend starts. Verti-Marte just began to play in my winamp.

Rest, blessed rest. Soon you'll be mine.

Um, Allyson, they are fans of your chapter in your book, which is about not just me, but also you, and all of this community. I'd say they're fans of b.org.

Shir, yay! Have a great weekend+holiday,

Real, actual Burger King porn (from BK Amsterdam):

I came across this post "Burger King has a bad taste ...." on Digital Frog, a dutch photographer's blog. It's a photo he says of a tray liner his son got in an Amersterdam Burger King.

The trayliner depicts the airport-style high security Burger King uses to ensure that only the top ingredients are used. Images include a scared Onion with his trousers down around his ankles while a fierce-looking Pickle guard with a latex glove, prepares to digitally examine him! Scattered about him from his open luggage are veggie porn mags!

Sounds like it's not a hoax. Pretty-much work-safe, I guess....

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eta: OMG, there's more! [link]

Including a vegetable "Red-light district"! (Sadly, only available as a smaller image): [link]

Emily, I have 2 long gauzy skirts I bought for the Ethiopia trip, as well as a long denim skirt which if we are similar sized, youa re welcome to (I can mail them tomorrow, seriously). I wore cotton long sleeved tees, but it was Dec, not June.

I've got to go to a seminar this afternoon on the new computerized grading system the department is going to start using. I hope it's better than the 45 minute talk on how to use the new copier that we got a few years ago.