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eating bluegills from Lady Bird Lake

Eating Perch from Lady Bird Lake

I caught a decent sized bluegill on Lady Bird Lake recently, pictured here against the backdrop of the Holly Street power plant. I caught it about an hour or two before sunset, coaxing it into rising to a hand-tied foam spider. That success led me to promise a friend that the next time we met,

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Circle and Almost Circle #8

This comic takes a little bit of explanation. You see, if he was actually a circle, then the circumference divided by the diameter would be pi. And of course any child who is confronted with this sort of mathematical dissonance would immediately burst into tears.

Pictures of Big Bend

Here’s some pictures I took while visiting Big Bend last month. People keep telling me that Big Bend is beautiful. I dunno. I guess there are uglier places in America, particularly if you count a lot of the urban areas like Dallas. Here for instance is the Rio Grande as seen from the road between

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MetroRail on the Weekend

I’ve written a lot about the Austin train system. Let’s face it, I’m a public transportation groupie. So I was pleased to see that our commuter train is now running on Friday and Saturday evenings. In which case it stops being a commuter train and starts being a drunk train. But it’s another step in

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