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Archive for February 2004

stick-to-it-ivness

Posted on 2/20/2004

I’m this way about a lot of things…. I’ve been reading tales of grad school woe and how sometimes you have to know when to say when, but I haven’t been paying attention to those warning signs at home, and goodness knows I’ve had enough times when I haven’t known how to let go […]

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working out the backlogs

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I found a few “emergency weblog”-style entries from the interim page I had up in January, so I’ve added them here. along with the bits bemoaning my old host, there’s an entry on juvenalia and one on my trip to Calif. last month. I still need to post pictures, but that’ll wait until […]

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the death of webmonkey

Posted on 2/18/2004

Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 ? 2004
here’s the complete text of my email to Paul Boutin, in response to his blog post:
When I first started doing Web stuff (c. 1999), Webmonkey was my constant guide and companion.
Tables gave me fits to start with; Webmonkey’s analogy of the divided picnic plate got me to the point […]

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politics in Washington state

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Absolutely, but it’s all waste, you know. That’s all your tax money goes towards — paying for state employees to loaf on the job. What’s more important is THE CHILDREN. Let’s eliminate taxes and give all our tax revenue to THE CHILDREN.
(Don’t laugh, I just described Washington state the last ten years.)
- Dylan Wilbanks, by […]

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sometimes…

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you have to know your limits as a human being, and remember the things that are really important.
which is corny, I guess, but I learned it in another context today. which is to say that C & I are going to be focusing a little differently, I think. I’d spill, but it’s against […]

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making the wrong choice

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today I had a chance to choose between two things, and I’m realizing that I picked wrong. I don’t know if it’s something I can make better.

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Hi! This is Elaine Nelson's site, which used to be at epersonae.com, and which is sometimes known as emergency weblog.