May 2011

The root rot happened first, I think, and then the larvae moved in. Regardless, still super bummed to discover this spring that our three-year-old Viburnum shrub was a goner. This is a picture of one of the inhabited roots that snapped off when I dug the plant out of the earth today.

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peacecoffee: We’ll be showing off this pimp ride, the Civia Halsted, at our booth at the Living Green Expo this weekend! Stop by and check it out. *Sorry no free beer or cold press coffee samples from the cooler. Just look at this bike, yo!

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Incidentally, one of life’s great mysteries is why the New York Times is spending tens of millions of dollars building and promoting its easily-circumventable paywall, when it could have built a first-rate Groupon clone instead. The NYT has the exact home addresses — and the associated email addresses — of hundreds of thousands of well-heeled

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