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1. While I was riding the T the other day, a little girl--four, maybe, or five, looked up at me and said "do you know a crow?" "A crow?" I asked. "A crow, a bird," she said. "No," I told her. "The crow told me to tell you something" she continued. But she wouldn't say what.

2. While taking Fionn for a walk in Davis Square the other night we met an old guy who had built a radio-controlled toy helicopter, and affixed a little digital camera to it. He took aerial photos of is.

3. rezendi told me that they built some sort of subterranean telescope built in a Victorian tunnel under the ocean between london and new york so that people can wave at their counterparts across Atlantic when they walk by. At first I got super-excited to see it, then I started thinking that cameras had to be involved, and I assume my steampunk imagining of it is way cooler than the real thing...still, I am curious--has anyone seen this contraption? Is it really a cool telescope or is it like those cameras they had in Times Square some years back? If I manage to get to NYC the next weekend, SHOULD I GO SEE THE STEAMPUNK TELESCOPE? Where is it, anyway? I refuse to google it in case it ruins my fantasy of it. So don't tell me anything that might ruin my fantasy of it, but definitely tell me if it is as awesome as it sounds.

4. mashuta and her Young Man stopped by today, and Fionn has demonstrated that he has become a fully Marxist baby, as he spent their entire visit engaged in redistribution of property amongst the four of us. I guess being born on Lenin's birthday confers certain proclivities and predispositions.

and just a few shots from walking around some rust belty-ish parts of Boston the other day