Archive for October, 2006

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and the beat goes on

Posted by Bambit
October 31, 2006

Sick for a week I was, rubella and all, and three days after I got it, my little girl Maia got it too. But all that’s over now, with Maia hardly even breaking out into a full-blown fever with the measles. She wore her rash like robot armor, side-kicking like Riser Kageri.
Her mom on [...]

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kranken

Posted by Bambit
October 21, 2006

rubella or what we commonly know as german measles — nothing at all to do with germany but i like the title anyway.
and all the while i thought it was just arthritis.
ok, i’m not old, i’m just sick.
quarantine for a week.
see ya . . .

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so that’s what the bridge is for

Posted by Bambit
October 16, 2006

Not an advanced holloween party this, but mid-way through an InDesign tip during the Adobe INDESIGN WORLD 2006 Roadshow, one of the best seminars I’ve attended this year.

Tim Cole, Senior InDesign Evangelist, Adobe Systems, Inc. and Marianne Young, Solutions Engineer, Adobe Systems, South East Asia, were the Mission Mentors. I bet those who attended were [...]

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How the mighty trees have fallen

Posted by Bambit
October 13, 2006

Before . . .

. . . After
In Iligan we call them “cherries”, Cebuanos say “mansanitas”, Tagalogs call them “alatires”.
But they’re gone now, along with the bigger, older one outside the fence, victims of Milenyo’s fury. For days onwards birds would sit on the edge of our roof and chirp in confusion, wondering where their [...]