Monthly Archives: December 2007
Contest #9–For the lawyer in all of us
Contestant #9 is Tina Codini-Longoria. I don’t know why, but I have decided to depict her like this: You go girl!
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Contest #8–Winter Break Edition
Start your clocks! Contestant number eight, announced directly from sunny Ohio, is Jeffrey Alan Golden. Although he doesn’t like being called Alan, because it reminds him of scruffy Alan Goodin from Boy Scout camp. Alan was in charge of sanitation … Continue reading
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Where Was I When You Needed Me?
I am in Ohio. That’s roughly smack-dab in the middle of this map, folks, in case you were wondering. But if I could be anywhere, I might like to be off to the left a bit, near that little streak … Continue reading
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The Wind
2:25 AM: Right now in Reykjavik the wind is blowing with sustained velocities of 30 m/s, gusts up to 40 m/s. One meter per second is 2.2 km/hr, so we’re talking up to 88 km per hour. We tried to … Continue reading
Contest #7 (Contest for the Technologically Challenged)
Competitor #7 is none other than my very own mother, Stella Ling, resident of Wilmington, Ohio.
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Það er Heiðskírt!
We don´t get much sun in Iceland, but when we do it is like a falling star has landed right on top of me–it sears my tender flesh like Wagner. Pictures from around sunrise this week: Clockwise from top left: … Continue reading
November Round-Up
It’s the end of the beginning for WalrusAttack. We (me and WalrusAttack) have been through some crazy ups and downs in our first month, from the time that Halldor accused me of making up the bus driver to Spöng (that … Continue reading
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I must be feeling generous…
Because I am naming Elizabeth Baker Wood the winner of contest #6 (despite a disastrously tardy response). I am also instituting a new system–as each winner is anointed, he or she will also receive a new name–a true name, redolent … Continue reading
