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By Janet Dagley Dagley
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Blogger's note: Technical difficulties with Blogger.com interrupted publication of The Dagley Dagley Daily from April 16, 2003 to April 22, 2003.



  posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @2:11 PM


19.4.03  

 


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This site is now powered not just by Blogger, but Blogger Pro. Will that allow me to post again? Let's see...testing...testing...testing...



  posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @7:22 AM


18.4.03  

 


Blogger's note: Technical difficulties with Blogger.com interrupted publication of The Dagley Dagley Daily from April 16, 2003 to April 22, 2003.



  posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @7:29 AM


17.4.03  

 



Ahoy!* The boats are back


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They may not be as reliable as the swallows of Capistrano or the buzzards of Hinckley, or even the Canada geese of Hoboken, but we're happy to see the boats have begun to return to our local marina.


*In English, "ahoy" is specifically a nautical greeting, while in Czech (spelled "ahoj") it's just one of many ways of saying "hello" (or "goodbye"). How did the sailors of Britannia (which once ruled the waves) end up using a word from a landlocked land to greet each other? Or did the word come from somewhere else? Alexander Graham Bell wanted "ahoy" to become the standard telephone greeting, but it didn't work out that way.



  posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @8:26 PM


16.4.03  

 


Looting update


Some Iraqis looters are having second thoughts and returning the things they stole last week, thanks in part to Sheik Ali Jabouri of Najaf, who has asked women to withhold sex from looter husbands. The story is a popular one on the newswires today, especially in Australia. We're sure the Sheik was guided by the Koran, but coincidentally, he was also taking a page from Greek drama, specifically the Aristophanes play Lysistrata. And also coincidentally, that very play was performed on five continents March 3 as an antiwar protest. 


Elsewhere on the looting front, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld missed his cue. He could have explained that that vase he mentioned last week was being carried out of the Baghdad museum. Instead, he pooh-poohed reports that the museum was looted in much the same way he dismissed widespread reports of widespread looting as coalition forces moved in. "We didn't allow it," he insisted on Meet the Press, "It happened." There are also widespread reports that the U.S. was warned repeatedly before the war that the museum might be looted.


Some of the artifacts in the museum were more than 4,000 years old. But the fossil fuel administered by the Oil Ministry is even older. Maybe that's why the U.S. forces made such a point of guarding the Oil Ministry while leaving the hospitals, museums, power plants, waterworks and the rest of the city to the looters. To be fair, the Australian newspaper The Age reports that there was one 30-minute interruption in the midst of two days of looting, "when pleading staff convinced members of a Marines tank unit to go to the museum and scare off the looters with a few warning shots over their heads."



  posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @7:03 PM


15.4.03  

 


The Grapes of Damascus


When T.E. Lawrence met Feisal, the man who became king of the result of Lawrence's nation-building, Saudi Arabia, Lawrence didn't waste any time in bringing up the subject of Damascus. Lawrence was visiting Feisal in the southern town of Wadi Safri, and when Feisal welcomed his blue-eyed blond British visitor, he asked how he liked the place.


"Well," Lawrence replied, "But it is far from Damascus."


Lawrence later helped Feisal conquer Damascus, for awhile anyway. These days Damascus is the capital of Syria, a nation that appears to be the next item on the U.S. military's "to-invade" list.


As the 21st-century re-enactment of Lawrence's Arabian adventure continues, we've now reached the part of the movie where Lawrence and his advancing army are approached by a messenger on horseback, riding hard and fast. He has a gift for Lawrence: grapes, just cut from the vines in Damascus. Lawrence bites into a grape, makes a face, and spits it out. The messenger watches and laughs. "But they are not ripe!" he shouts as he rides away.



  posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @2:43 PM


14.4.03  

 


Free wallpaper


If your computer needs a new look, try one of these images as your new wallpaper. Just click on the full-size image with the right button of your mouse, and if you're using Internet Explorer, select "set as background." If you're using Netscape, select "set as wallpaper." If you're using Opera, select "use image as" and then "desktop wallpaper." I'm not sure how to do it with the AOL browser, but at least AOL users can enjoy the pictures just the same. (The larger images are still here; just click on the link. I replaced them with these small samples to make the page easier to load.


Bring on the raindrops


 

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This flower is one of the ones that got snowed on the other day.


 


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A typical view from the Hoboken waterfront.


 


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Scenic Frank Sinatra Drive in Hoboken, overlooking the Stevens Technical Institute waterfront parking lot and perpetual construction site. 



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  posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @1:17 PM


13.4.03  

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