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These are all done in Pencil.
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ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,, HealingBrush, veo and 257 other people liked this
Impressive
- M F
Great work!
- Nia
I reshare this to Ideas & Inspiration room :) These are so realistic!
- Kristian Salonen
I'm sorry but this is unbelievable:) I'll give credit to the artist upon more convincing proof! The photogenic look of the tiger and lion really helps the artist's case though:)
- Roney Smith
I'm with Roney... I find this hard to believe... or maybe I'm just jealous that I can't even get stick people right!
- Jasmin Smith
I don't believe it. Too amazing.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I'm with Rah
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Only the lion looks like its drawn
- embee
The bear and rhino look drawn, too.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
very very talented. Wow they look like B&W pics you know photography.
- Gabriella Sannino
These are amazing, were they done by you?
- Angelo Rodrigues
Nice photographs
- Rafael Robayna
@michael, if they weren't drawn by you, at least tell us who the artist is and the link
- LouCypher
Link please?
- Jason Wehmhoener
wow
- Carolyn Chan
being slightly skeptical, i'm going to say these were done with pencil by a printer of some sorts... #justsayin
- Enrique Gutierrez
they're beautiful, but skeptical as well
- Jennifer Van Grove
Would need to see higher quality images to see if they are pencil or not - too many jpg artifacts to tell.
- Luke Addison
from twhirl
Stupefied.
- Parth Awasthi
want proof
- Jérôme Flipo
Wow!! Yeah it's pretty amazing what they can draw with a pencil nowadays, deviantART has lots of great pencil art.
- Kol Tregaskes
Michael, who is the artist?
- Kol Tregaskes
wow, cool!
- Sarah Perez
you cannot win on the interwebs. draw some crap it doesn't get noticed. draw something amazing in pencil and people say it's not real.
- Joe Breen
I'm really happy everyone liked these. They're my most liked entry to date, Thanks! There also seems to be some question about whether these are actually Pencil Drawings.I can assure you that they are.When I get home, I should have the links. I have more drawings, too.
- Michael Fidler
from fftogo
O_O WOW...Stunning
- Anna Haro
Wow, these are stunning!!
- Susan Beebe
Yes, especially the tiger. Reminds me of that "Tiger, tiger burning bright."
- Melanie Reed
Alright, Mike - I believe you. These are awesome. Good job!
- Enrique Gutierrez
HOLY CRAP.
- Chieze Okoye
no way!
- Mister Groonk
Thanks Enrique, I'll post some more soon. They are a little more obvious than these ones. As Luke points out; without being able to look closely it's impossible to tell. He's right; but up close it's more obvious. I'll upload the originals to Picasa later, and then you'll be able to zoom in with any photo viewer and see for yourselves. I can't believe how many people liked these. A few people have reposted them already. Thanks!
- Michael Fidler
Absolutely awesome, Michael. You are extremely talented. Everyone should repost these pix and help to make you famous. You should be doing this full time - you obviously have some passion for this. Bravo.
- Chris Loft
These are really beautiful, Michael. Do you sell them?
- Shannon Jiménez
Chris, I would love to say they're mine, but it's not true. I've had them for a while, but I'll find the artists names. It will just require a little backtracking. Besides, they deserve the credit; all I did was find them:-)
- Michael Fidler
Cut the bullshit! :) Photos are very good.
- Burçak Çubukçu
I draw alot in pencil, but they are amazing, the best for me is the girl, that is the most photo-like one. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I agree Rob, the girl is amazing. My favorite by far! Wait until you see it close up! It's really had to tell, even up close!
- Michael Fidler
Burçak Çubukçu If these were photographs, they would be very good. As Pencil Drawings,(which they are), they're amazing.
- Michael Fidler
Wow, amazingly realistic
- Threepwood
@Michael Fidler did you draw them? How can you so sure?
- Burçak Çubukçu
That is my pencil drawing :) http://picasaweb.google.com/Burcak...
- Burçak Çubukçu
dont look like it
- Prakash
@ Michael Fidler don't push so hard :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
@Burçak Çubukçu I can't tell if your serious now or just kidding around. I hope your just having fun! If you are serious, I've never given you a reason to question my integrity, nor do I ever intend to. However, the second set is up now, so judge them for yourself, but don't judge me! http://ff.im/1BJh5 BTW, I messed up and reposted the shot of the women again. Oh well. Hope you like them:-)
- Michael Fidler
@Michael: try deviantART, not Picasa, to submit your artworks
- LouCypher
WOW "I can't believe it's in pencil"
- sofarsoShawn
LouCypher, I know it well, but I don't see why I would want to do that. I hope everyone knows by now that they're not mine? I'm sorry, but I can't say it any clearer than that.
- Michael Fidler
nah, i don't believe it is done in pencil. i am sure it is photoshopped :)
- hasin hayder
These would be great even for photos.
- tomit
i'm not able to comprehend
- Varun Shenoy
More comments here: http://www.bannination.com/comment...
- donato
I'm finding this both interesting and humorous at the same time. There's a separate message board where this post is being discussed and it has another forty comments on it already. I think its great how this has created some lively discussion, considering that when I posted this I was doubtful if anyone would even like it. When I went to sleep last night there was only had 3 or 4 likes...
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- Michael Fidler
Very interesting. I would like to see them up close and in person...just to make sure. Bill said it's real and possible. Your 2nd set of picts look like pencil. Nice work in finding these!
- LaFern Cusack
Kol, I can't thank you enough! Kol found another post which helps to prove that these are done in pencil. I had my doubts about a few of them because I collected them from several different sites over time, but the site Kol found has done a great job pulling together an impressive collection of these drawings and more. Take a look - http://www.flickzzz.com/2009...
- Michael Fidler
Actually there are more than what this site shows. There's an entire set with the cats(little cats), which I have, and there's a new portrait set.
- Michael Fidler
Found your post here, Michael. :-) I tried my best to find the artists.
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazing and very very very good.... Very impressive ...
- Linda Zeek-Bobinski
fake. http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2009... Even if your not claiming to be the artist, these are photographs, well except the woman, thats pencil
- james foor
Yeah we know, thanks though, James. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Excellent pictures - how long did it take you to scan the photographs into Photoshop and then edit them? The only pencil that has come into contact with these "drawings" is the Photoshop pencil. A tip - stop trying to fool people into thinking you are a "real" artist, because all you are doing is cheapening proper artist's works whom have spent hours creating real pictures as opposed to a few minutes on a graphics editing package.
- The Wimp
A bell does ring here. And I am remembering why I was so attracted to the tiger...and the lion for that matter. These are exact replicas of prints I had in our bedroom when I lived in Dallas. I had bought the prints (in color) at a department store,
- Melanie Reed
Actually, I have learned quite a bit about these drawing since I made this post. Not only have I discovered all of the artists, but I've learned more about how they are created. They are always copied from a photograph or painting, but usually a photograph. It is extremely time consuming and detail orientated work. There are many other artists besides the ones featured here who practice...
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- Michael Fidler
Most of them have portfolio's on deviantart.com and their work is truly amazing even if they are copies of other artists work. I suppose with this level of detail, they have to start with something. Nevertheless, I'm still in awe of their talent. Melanie, the animal prints you refer to are from a very well renowned photographer. The originals are B&W I'll look it up later but I do have...
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- Michael Fidler
wow; they're unbelieavably beautiful.
- liladreams
What is the future of the book? LRS wants to know your opinion - http://www.nuthingbut.net/2009...
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New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/content...
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"Not only will I be able to perform tasks faster than before, but my new device will also inform those around me that I am a successful individual who is up on the latest trends," said Rebecca Hodge
- Seb Paquet
Data-gov Wiki - http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/wiki...
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We investigate the [data.gov] government datasets using semantic web technologies. Currently, we are translating such datasets into RDF, getting them linked to linked data cloud, and developing interesting applications and demos on linked government data.
- Richard Akerman
AcaWiki: Increasing the Impact of Research Using Web 2.0 - http://acawiki.org/Home
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"AcaWiki is like "Wikipedia for academic research" designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online. AcaWiki turns research hidden in academic journals into something more dynamic and accessible."
- Daniel Mietchen
from Bookmarklet
Good idea, but unlikely to take off, IMHO.
- Björn Brembs
To my understanding it all rests on the willingness of people to write summaries of articles far more substantial than the already available abstracts.
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Alexey - I can see situation where people who don't have blogs would post on AcaWiki - but I don't know if there is a critical mass of people willing to do that
- Jean-Claude Bradley
I think there would need to be some sort of reward. I suggested perhaps for literature reviews (plenty of thesis chapters out there that never get published) that providing a doi and submission to the new Rapid Research Notes database might be interesting in that regard.
- Cameron Neylon
Interesting. DOIs cost money, but a fund for assigning DOIs would be good to have.
- Jodi Schneider
There is also http://sref.org/ as an alternative to DOI, and RRN may be able to handle both.
- Daniel Mietchen
@Jodi, they do, but not that much. If it's worth the CV fodder then I don't think a small payment for a doi is a big problem (if its around e.g. the $10 mark)
- Cameron Neylon
timoreilly: One of the most important pieces ever written about #gov20 and social engagement: http://bit.ly/3aRLh8 Change means CULTURECHANGE. - http://twitter.com/timorei...
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timoreilly: One of the most important pieces ever written about #gov20 and social engagement: http://bit.ly/3aRLh8 Change means CULTURECHANGE.
- Richard Akerman
Blog post: Librarians and social media engagement: http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
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Revised Google Book Search Settlement from a Library Perspective - http://dltj.org/article...
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A great overview of the amended agreement.
- Stephen Francoeur
Why we use cookbooks : The New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/arts...
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'Another answer to the question “What good is the cookbook?” lies in what might be called the grammatical turn: the idea that what the cookbook should supply is the rules, the deep structure—a fixed, underlying grammar that enables you to use all the recipes you find.'
- John Dupuis
DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards - http://dataportability.org/#
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"Data portability is the ability for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications. The DataPortability Project works to advance this vision by identifying, contextualizing and promoting efforts in the space."
- Daniel Mietchen
from Bookmarklet
Great! Let's try and get some DataPortability repping at #futurelabcamp
- Mackenzie Cowell
20 Science Fiction Novels We Can't Wait To Read in 2010 [Booklists] - http://io9.com/5405400...
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Data and the journal article - http://digitalcuration.blogspot.com/2009...
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Chris Rusbridge is sceptical about the state of supplementary information and data
- Cameron Neylon
It would have been great if I could easily have found one... one(!)... example of supplementary data in a re-usable format. But time and agin I found PDFs, with the odd Word document!
- Chris Rusbridge
The example I quoted was a chemical one (http://www.rsc.org/suppdat...); do any of you have any suggestions on what might have been better ways of coding those supplementary materials? There are some chemical method descriptions; CML? Fitting the data to a mathematical model, not sure how it might be best described. And some NMR spectra and other images I don't personally recognise.
- Chris Rusbridge
No criticism of these authors intended, but what would be better nthan PDFs in such a case?
- Chris Rusbridge
Almost anything :-( Seriously the problem is that people think of the online space as a dumping ground, not just a place for data. The assumption is that you have to dump everything into one file. What would be helpful would be good upload systems that let you put the raw files in and help you organize and index them. But even then, when you are in the final stages of manuscript preparation are people really going to send around a directory of files?
- Cameron Neylon
Someone told me recently that Nature have appointed a staff member to make supplementary data more relevant, which is encouraging if true.
- Chris Rusbridge
I suppose it IS "supplementary MATERIALS". But I would hope there is something a little higher than "raw data files" to recommend?
- Chris Rusbridge
I think Nature are doing some good work in this space but I don't know the details. The problem is that it has always been seen as the dumping ground for things "not important enough" rather than an opportunity to include more of the important stuff. But it all comes back to attitudes about data sharing. If people thought it was important they'd make the effort. The fact that they don't...
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- Cameron Neylon
There's a structural problem with expecting publishers to deal with usable supplementary (or even primary!) data: publishers enter the research process too late. By the time a publisher sees anything, the data may well have been ruined by a well-meaning researcher. While admitting my own bias -- I still think this is (for now, at least) an institutional problem.
- D0r0th34
Even the institution possibly comes in a bit late really - we're back to needing to re-educate scientists again aren't we?
- Cameron Neylon
yes, I think we are. so for the new breed, we can start when they're in school. the oldsters? not much left besides their library. if they'll listen to it. which many won't.
- D0r0th34
This is, of course, a culture change >> than asking people to put their papers in IRs. So it won't get fixed any time soon. Doesn't mean don't start, however. And there are some beacons of data sharing out there. Now one of them needs to get a big prize & claim that data sharing helped!
- Chris Rusbridge
I don't think there is a general solution here - the most convenient data formats vary between fields. As I've said many times for chemistry the JCAMP-DX format is vastly superior to the common way of submitting NMR spectra as PDFs in Supporting Info if the intent is transparency. There is no new technology to invent here - it requires the researcher to take a few seconds to do the...
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- Jean-Claude Bradley
@D0r0th34, not clear that the structural problem is avoidable. If well-meaning researchers are gonna destroy their data, the institution can't do anything about it! "Sheer curation" (just means managing your data well while you're creating & using it, I think) might help, but that's for the good guys anyway. If publishers (or reviewers) start saying no to articles where the data are mangled up in PDFs, then maybe we'd get somewhere? At least an incentive where none exists?
- Chris Rusbridge
There is some rays of hope in the work going on for instrumental data standards like AniML. If instruments default to open standards we will get further much faster. Also currently writing a grant that attempts to link a "just save it all somewhere as blobs" approach to helping the user connect things up together to try and provide metadata. Doesn't solve the format problem of course but it could be a start.
- Cameron Neylon
Cameron - my understanding is that AniML is not up to speed with storing and rendering NMR spectra using Open Standards and Open Source Software - do you have different info on that?
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Chris, it depends on the reasons for the data destruction. If it's apathy, the answer is incentives, as has been noted. If it's just ignorance, though, the answer has to be education and collaboration -- and crucially, as early in the research process as possible. That to me screams "institutional involvement."
- D0r0th34
No, I don't think AniML is up to NMR yet but what I have heard is that some instrument manufacturers are getting interested in open formats. Not necessarily NMR but big players in the instrument world who are sick of having to develop their own complete software suites to handle proprietary data formats.
- Cameron Neylon
I think the AniML format has been discussed for many years. JCAMP already solves the Open Standard and Open Source issues and it does not require compliance on the part of instrument manufacturers - so far we've been able to find simple ways of converting NMR data from Varian and Brucker, IR, UV, MS, etc.
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Is the run away from “librarian” and “library” a conflict between 2nd and 3rd wave feminists? - http://scienceblogs.com/christi...
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Great post!
- Meg v. Meg v. 1.0.0.1
thanks, but 90% of it is Dawn's! :)
- Christina Pikas
Very interesting in the larger arena of the L vs. the I debate. But am having a hard time placing S. Abram anywhere in this angle of the debate. ;) [Not meant as a slur to SA, just a funny about how my mind is visualizing/parsing the thought.]
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009 - http://www.nytimes.com/gift-gu...
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"Every year since 1952, the Book Review has asked a panel of judges to select 10 books from among the several thousand children’s books published that year. The judges this time around were Adam Gopnik, who writes regularly for The New Yorker and is the author of two novels for children, “The King in the Window” and the forthcoming “Steps Across the Water”; Jillian Tamaki, a teacher at the School of Visual Arts and the recipient of a Society of Illustrators gold medal; and Lisa Von Drasek, the children’s librarian of the Bank Street College of Education."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Down On The Corner - http://www.last.fm/music...
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I cannot love this song enough. *dives for iPod*
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
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- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising - http://www.last.fm/music...
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3 ways Google Wave could be used in the classroom. - http://dougbelshaw.com/blog...
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Brick and Click Symposium Stuff - http://www.nuthingbut.net/2009...
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So happy to hear the new Ithaka report, What to withdraw, being discussed by the manager of the project. #chsconf09
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"Those responsible for data management have failed" Need for sci data platforms grows ever stronger. Who will step up? http://www.politigenomics.com/2009...
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At CERN, using Amazon #aws for HPC, by Server Labs ' Paul Parsons : http://indico.cern.ch/confere...
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New Bioclipse Wiki front page: http://wiki.bioclipse.net/ - http://egonw.posterous.com/new-bio...
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- Egon Willighagen
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Nice work.
- Noel O'Boyle
Thanx to my student Samuel!
- Egon Willighagen
Trying Google Reader?.. Share your friendfeed feed WITHIN Reader. (groups work too)!!
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Use the FF Tools Embed > Feed Widget http://friendfeed.com/embed (Image version) and paste the HTML into Reader using the "Your Stuff" > "Shared Items" -> "Have some thoughts to share?" textbox. Let them know where you came from!! Check out http://www.google.com/reader... to see the results (I used the Note on Reader bookmarklet on my FF homepage and THEN added the HTML).
- Chris Myles
Interesting idea. I have a 'lifestream' bundle and share some of my posts that way. Unfortunately you have to delete them once FF imports them back, but not too much of a pain.
- Kol Tregaskes
Chris, what embeds would you share from there? I imagine sharing individual entries would be good but not sure what could be shared from the embed page?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol.. It's more of a hack to show people where you came from, and gives you (and those you share with) a quick place to check your FF updates within reader. Since the image auto-updates, it's perfect!!
- Chris Myles
GROUPS: You can also embed groups but not directly. Just change your username to the group name.. width is a cool option as well!! http://friendfeed.com/embed....
- Chris Myles
BTW: this is ONE of the MANY reasons I think FriendFeed kicks ass.. Most products aren't even thinking about embedded versions of their content, let alone dynamic images for sites that don't support iframes (or when javascript is disabled). It just adds to the flexibility and power of the platform.. (Facebook.. hint hint)!!
- Chris Myles
Just tried this in GR and it works. Thank you Chris.
- Polly Potter
No worries Polly. I saw yours in Reader.. You might want to make it wider to get more goodies in the same height. I set my width to 600!! BTW Where are you getting feedback from the Reader team? I've got a some stuff logged into their help site.. haven't heard a peep from anyone (some stuff has been sitting there since last November). http://friendfeed.com/akiva...
- Chris Myles
Fixed FF widget in GR to 600 as you suggested and it looks a lot better. Thank you.
- Polly Potter
Chris, if you are referring to the comments of Jenna Bilotta that I shared in GR, I found them in FF and parked them in GR for ease of finding again.
- Polly Potter
Ok thanks Polly, glad to know the width looks better, I'd have a look but I can't .. http://ff.im/7JFoG
- Chris Myles
John Wilbanks: I have seen the paradigm shift, and it is us: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us...
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great read -- at least three lines that belong in "quotes" for great writing lists!
- Mickey Schafer
which three? can you copy and paste here for everyone to see?
- Bora Zivkovic
Sure, Bora, but my selections have more to do with aesthetic reaction than information -- things that made me laugh or just go "yeah, that was nicely put."
- Mickey Schafer
#1: "I can encode a lovely simulation on my screen in which there is no theory of gravity, but if I attempt to drive my car off a cliff, empiricism is going to bite my backside on the way down."
- Mickey Schafer
#2 (this is for the info, too) "Data is not sweeping away the old reality. Data is simply placing a set of burdens on the methodologies and social habits we use to deal with and communicate our empiricism and our theory, on the robustness and complexity of our simulations, and on the way we expose, transmit, and integrate our knowledge."
- Mickey Schafer
#3 "Changing the public nature of the Internet threatens its very existence. This is not intuitive to those of us raised in a world of rivalrous economic goods and traditional economic theory. It makes no sense that Wikipedia exists, let alone that it kicks Encyclopedia Britannica to the curb."
- Mickey Schafer
#4: "As Galileo might have said, however, “And yet it moves.” [6] Wikipedia does exist, and the network—a consensual hallucination defined by a set of dry requests for comments—carries Skype video calls for free between me and my family in Brazil." (part of my appreciation for this derives from my trip to Rome, where I caught the Galileo exhibit at the Santa Maria del Angieli)
- Mickey Schafer
Love them all - all four. Thank you.
- Bora Zivkovic
#5: "Software built on the model of distributed, small contributions joined together through technical and legal standardization was another theoretical impossibility subjected to a true Kuhnian paradigm shift by the reality of the Internet. The ubiquitous ability to communicate, combined with the low cost of acquiring programming tools and the visionary application of public copyright licenses, had the strangest impact: it created software that worked, and scaled."
- Mickey Schafer
Guess I can't count 'cause there's one more: #6 "Eben Moglen provocatively wrote in 1999 that collaboration on the Internet is akin to electrical induction—an emergent property of the network unrelated to the incentives of any individual contributor." -- this one in particular helps provide a frame for understanding what happens "out here" -- I think this is what I try to get across to students.
- Mickey Schafer
RT @bijan Beautiful. just ordered. http://www.apple.com/magicmo... [Me too!]
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Old Fashioned Homemade Pancakes Recipe – Basics | My Wooden Spoon - http://mywoodenspoon.com/2009...
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Cloudy, maybe rainy day? Great day to take the boys to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the Egyptian collection and arms and armor.
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I love the notion of a family life in NYC, and love reading about yours... but I think I'd go crazy if *I* lived there. So I'm just going to live vicariously through yours, okay?
- Jenica
FYI, 2.5yo boys fans of the Met? Not so much. Home now for nap time.
- Stephen Francoeur
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