This photo is actually a couple of months old, but it illustrates the condition of the lake at Roundrock pretty well. This is the season of exhaustion in my woods. The heat and humidity pull every ounce of enthusiasm from my flesh and make even the simplest jobs too much work and trouble to pursue. All of the ambitions to change the face of Roundrock to match my imagination seem unworkable, .........

I don''t know how many of you know this (some of you might remember our twin photo shoot), but I have a twin brother. His name is Jake, and he''s pretty awesome, at least most of the time. In the spirit of copying Winona (because let''s face it; who doesn''t want to copy Winona), I''ve asked him to do a guest post on my blog. Enjoy! And comment lots; it''s his first ever blog post and I want it to be a good experience! He insists that this post is a piece of crap (it''s not), so let''s prove him otherwise!

Hi. My name is Jake, and I am Kori’s twin brother. Kori has been asking .........

"The three-part fuming World War II bummer The Human Condition (1959 - 61) - considered the magnum opus of socially critical Japanese filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri) - runs just shy of 10 hours and is an arduous watch in ways beyond its creator''s intentions," writes Aaron Hillis in the Voice. "Based on Jumpei Gomikawa''s ambitious novel and seasoned with Kobayashi''s own experiences, this overly melodramatic trilogy set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria depicts the dehumanizing brutality of war with on-the-nose pedantry, never subtext, and offers little richness to Western eyes already .........

I’m a featured blogger now on blog.hu because of my Hungarian medical blog and I got an interesting question about which famous blogger I would like to wake up as tomorrow morning. It made me think for a .........

Why should ads be boring? Check out this collection of unforgettable advertisements from around the world.

Everything else is social on the Web, why not the ads? MediaForge has created ads that ad a social aspect to your interaction with them. As you roll your mouse over the ad a widget appears. This allows you to interact with the ad .........

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Those are some mighty big deer tracks, aren’t they? Note the toe of my boot for scale. We found these tracks all over the place down by the dam, around parts of the lake, throughout the pecan plantation, along the eastern fence line, and into the forest. It must have been a whole herd of really big .........

Does dating someone from outside your culture present difficulties? I've dated people from many different cultures, and from personal experience I can say it really didn't. Still, I caught this article about dating a non-Latino, and thought I'd throw the question out to all of .........

David Wasserman (1917 - 1999) was a graphic designer and cartoonist who experimented in his spare time with the artistic possibilities of metal collage. For more than thirty years, he nailed small pieces of tin cans, aluminum soda cans and other metals to sheets of plywood, to create large-scale but incredibly detailed pictures.

Since he wanted to explore all the possibilities of his chosen medium, the style of his work ranges from abstract to cartoon to realistic, and his subject matter includes famous people, powerful beasts, the depths of space, family photos, and an urban .........

I was never much of a fan of Ashton Kutcher's TV show, "Punk'd" but his current show, "Pop Fiction", on "E", sounds like something for .........

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"A big deal no one is making: the first Western-language films by the two most inimitable, imitated Asian filmmakers of our time are opening in New York on the same day." So, on the same page, the L Magazine''s Mark Asch reviews both Hou Hsiao-hsien''s Flight of the Red Balloon and Wong Kar-wai''s My Blueberry Nights, "a film as American as apple pie, and as out-of-time iconographic as that phrase .........

If you do a lot of business with customers in the U.S. you might be feeling the pinch due to the Canadian dollars rise against the U.S. dollar. .........

Croatian creative agency Bruketa & Zinic have designed an annual report for food company Podravka that has to be baked in an oven before it can be read.

Called ''Well Done,'' the report features blank pages printed with thermo-reactive ink that, after being wrapped in foil and cooked for 25 minutes, reveal text and .........

Join up with All About Pets, provided to you by The Blue Cross, Britain's pet charity in the UK. Now you'll have a place to get together online with other pet lovers and pet owners. Get information from other people about pets or just hang and .........

Rihanna has helped save the life of a leukaemia patient.

The ''Umbrella'' singer was so moved by mother-of-two Lisa Gershowitz Flynn''s story she joined forces with DKMS, the world''s leading bone marrow donor centre, to find her a match.

The 41-year-old New York lawyer was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukaemia, a fast-growing cancer of the blood and bone marrow last November, and was given just four to six weeks to find a donor.

Following Rihanna''s public plea for help, 5,000 potential donors contacted DKMS and a match has now been found.

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I once sat beside a pond for more than an hour waiting for some people to arrive. They never came, but I did get to see the pond in a lot more detail than I ever thought I would. Carolyn, over at Roundtop Ruminations, has started a new temporary blog chronicling her ability to sit still in nature. She calls it her Sit Spot Journal. You, too, can join the Sit Spot Challenge, and I think most of the readers of this humble blog would appreciate the goals. I’m not sure why they chose the middle of winter to establish their challenge, but they’re the ones in charge, not .........

What's black and white and printed all over? Your new dress, that's what!! I am a huge, huge fan of black and white anything because you can play with fun colored accessories without looking like a bag of Skittles threw up on you. Awesome right? Both black and white are great neutrals and if you pair them together correctly you can make a pretty bold statement. Just a word of caution on prints, make sure they are proportionate to your body size. Don't wear a big print if you are small and don't wear a small print if you are big. That's easy to remember right? Go paint the .........

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