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The Daily Doings of Steph

Whoa - quite the whirlwind trip to Kansas. Because of my travel snafus, I spent Thursday and Friday on planes and in airports. After leaving Anchorage on Thursday at 8:00 AM, I finally arrived in Winfield Friday evening, just in time for my 5:30 PM Southwestern Science Advisory Committeee meeting. Yesterday morning and early afternoon […]

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I should be in Kansas, but as I type, I’m at our favorite Seattle hotel, The Vintage Park. If everything had gone according to plan, I would have arrived at the Comfort Inn in Winfield about an hour ago. But today was not a day of good luck on Alaska Airlines flight #582 from Seattle […]

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I was very excited by Radiohead’s In Rainbows “pay what you want” download experiment. I paid about $12 which was a bit high, but I really wanted to support their efforts. However, evidently, only about 35% of us wanted to support Radiohead’s efforts in any manner. Everyone else downloaded the album for free.
That’s just so […]

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I have to say, I really like NPR’s ambitious new music site, NPR Music. A very broad selection of good music - runs the gamut from classical to jazz to rock/pop/folk. For music browsing, it’s much better than MySpace or Amazon. The combination of a printed story and a concert form provide a much deeper […]

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Sometimes Alaska ends up in the news for the craziest reasons. Today, Maggie, our only elephant, completed a long journey that began yesterday afternoon at the Alaska Zoo on O’Malley road here in Anchorage and ended with her arrival at the Performing Animal Welfare Society in central California.
This excellent graphic from the Daily News charts […]

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