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not near enough writing
I’m writing little bits of journaling here, but otherwise my writing has pretty much gone down the drain. which makes me feel low and dull. I gotta get some more energy & zip somehow. or use this freaking medium to get me back into the flow of writing. after [...]
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a brief note on proprietary formats
I really wanted to publish my little poetry book of a couple of years back: A Fool’s Tale in both PDF and XHTML formats (using a Creative Commons license), but when I found the disk on which I’d stored my files, I discovered that I only have it in Pagemaker 6 format…from back in the [...]
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the two towers
Wednesday, after C. turned in his last paper for the quarter, we went up to Seattle to spend the evening with Kat. started out with lots of Grand Theft Auto III (a freakishly addictive game, that) and DOA (3?), then graduated to the exended edition of Fellowship. totally worthwhile, that. we all expressed the [...]
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December 19 2002
my first tree…
kind of a “charlie brown christmas” style tree, but still. cost me $6.45, and it’s alive (and apparently, will be the largest tree in WA, someday.)
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December 17 2002
I don’t usually mention work…
but I will say that Dorothea covers the topic of socializing at work quite nicely, and by implication part of why I’m happy to be heading up to visit Kat and watch the extended version of Fellowship of the Ring in preparation for going to see Two Towers on Thursday…instead of going to the office [...]
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minimally related to anything
- How to be a philosopher: “Set out not to solve any problems. Do this in spades.”
- Practical Internet Code – good javascript stuff…if dead-ugly design.
- Anhedonia (a poem)
- keep Firefly on the air! – have not written about this before, but Firefly rocks! (I like it better than Buffy, definitely.) write UPN & beg [...]
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December 14 2002
an old friend in meatspace
I was home sick on Wednesday, and when I got back to the office on Thursday, there was a message from Tom: he was going to be in town Thurs & Fri, and he’s moving (back) to England. I did finally get a hold of him, and we went to Johnny’s Greek Cafe for [...]
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my ankles f’ing hurt
I’m beginning to think that my ankle thing is affected by the weather, because this fall they’ve been relatively quiescent, but today, and the last couple of days, with all the rain…. ugh. tonight I can barely wobble around the house.
it doesn’t help that we’ve been spending most of the evening trying to [...]
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mass more links
- ArtsJournal
- Blogging in the classroom
- The Rural Open Spectrum Project
- Arlington (MA) Wi-Fi initiative and one guy’s take on same
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December 12 2002
tons o’ stuff
Wi-Fi:
- Glen F. article on wifi security: David notices the class division inherent in the map (which I guess just proves C’s argument that you can understand anything better with a map.)
- also in the NYT: The Wi-Fi Boom
- Personal Telco Van
- the book of seg: drool.
- Piracy is progressive taxation. “being well-enough known to [...]
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