Musings

The Indian name for this place, I swear, must have been something like “Rapids with herons and turtles downstream.”

Indeed, the post-Colonials who dammed this stretch must have been channeling (ahem) ancient times, when they named their flow-stopper Eagle & Phenix Dam (two majestic birds of reality and myth).

Of course, when they blew the dam, archaeologists…monitored…what was revealed….

And now, six months after the dynamite (or whatever they used), we saw many turtles, including one with a shell more than a foot long, and herons, including one that nabbed and swallowed a feesh right in front of us, just downstream of the old dam site (or dam old site).

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Tempted by the new iPad mini?

It’s 5.3 inches wide, and after fiddling with a ruler, I’m thinking that my hand doesn’t have a wide enough span for that to be comfortable to hold between thumb and fingers. I saw in the demo that some models were holding it on one edge. That sounds tricky too, as you have to avoid spurious contact with the touchscreen.

My thought is, hold one first if you have smaller hands and desire one-handedness….

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