I like sticky buns, but they certainly are sticky.
12:03:30 PM,
Thursday 14 September 2000
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12:47:01 AM,
Thursday 14 September 2000
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I'm not sure I haven't mentioned this already, but it seems very odd to me that so many of the Nader supporters working to get him into the debates are also arguing very strongly for letting Pat Buchanan in, while virtually none of them are even mentioning the Libertarian candidate (Harry Brown, I believe), nor John "The Real Reform Party Candidate" Hagelin. I'd chalk it up to political differences, or to the fact that neither of them are real candidates, but the same goes for Buchanan, so that doesn't really have any explanatory force to it at all. ?
04:51:19 PM,
Wednesday 13 September 2000
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Space Station. Runs good. 50 rubles.
02:10:13 PM,
Wednesday 13 September 2000
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Dinosaurs.
11:46:38 AM,
Wednesday 13 September 2000
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Boofa!
12:20:03 AM,
Wednesday 13 September 2000
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Away.
11:30:12 PM,
Tuesday 12 September 2000
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Vila: "I think I have just made the biggest mistake of my life."
Orac: "It is unlikely. I would predict there are far greater mistakes waiting to be made by someone with your obvious talent for it."
05:57:07 PM,
Tuesday 12 September 2000
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Real Programmers think better when playing Adventure or Rogue.
02:40:39 PM,
Tuesday 12 September 2000
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The moon is nearly full.
11:55:28 AM,
Tuesday 12 September 2000
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What ever happened to the communist party?
12:05:33 PM,
Monday 11 September 2000
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So I just saw The Way of the Gun. Don't particularly recommend it... if Tarantino had been (a) a playwright, and (b) slightly less violent, and someone had made a movie of one of his plays, it might have come out looking like this. It was tense in an artistic sort of way, but it wasn't very skillfully done.
10:47:57 PM,
Sunday 10 September 2000
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XML Pocket Reference
04:42:30 PM,
Sunday 10 September 2000
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Is this what I've been reduced to? Cable modem?
01:22:00 AM,
Saturday 9 September 2000
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Whoo-hoo! I've got an apartmenet!
06:50:11 PM,
Friday 8 September 2000
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Aha! It's not that whorfin was down at all... there has been a catastrophic line failure of some sort near here... methinks this may account for my problems. Or, maybe not. Hard to say, really.
04:40:22 PM,
Friday 8 September 2000
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"Rodents of unusual size? I don't believe they exist."
"What, just a conspiracy of cartographers?"
12:22:36 PM,
Friday 8 September 2000
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Hooray!
01:17:20 AM,
Friday 8 September 2000
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I should know better than to telnet within telnet.
07:30:33 PM,
Thursday 7 September 2000
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That's a pity.
12:19:02 PM,
Thursday 7 September 2000
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Okay, I admit it, puppies really are pretty cute.
05:03:12 PM,
Wednesday 6 September 2000
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Hmm... won't do much good to learn Java until I can get the compiler working properly.
03:01:13 PM,
Wednesday 6 September 2000
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Time to learn Java.
12:20:47 PM,
Wednesday 6 September 2000
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The star-bellied sneetches had stars upon thars while the plain-bellied sneetches had none upon thars.
11:41:47 PM,
Tuesday 5 September 2000
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Can I... Can I put in something like "This is American Music, take one"?
07:36:27 PM,
Tuesday 5 September 2000
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There are various signs, evidently painted by local schoolchildren, highliting various wonderful (?) aspects of Healdsburg (the town where I work), hung on the chain link fence around the building next door to where I work (or, the almost building, I should say, as they're still in the process of building it). One of them has a bunch of haikus (haiku?) on it, printed on transparency paper (presumably so they won't be destroyed by the rain). This puts me in a versifying mood:
Haiku on plastic
hanging from a chain link fence
this is pathetic.
04:50:21 PM,
Tuesday 5 September 2000
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The main force working to reduce the amount of work demanded of any individual is organized labor. Organized labor has the most power when labor is scarce (workers know they can rely on getting jobs, employers know that they might not be able to replace their workers). This means that in at least one case, the possibility of efficient allocation of resources (i.e., working everyone a little bit rather than a few people too much) is hampered by the natural mechanics of the market. If it was going to be really self-correcting, there would be some mechanism whereby a greater abundance of labor naturally led to less work. So here we have (though I've admittedly only roughly sketched the argument) a case where the "invisible hand" has to be accounted a failure in the very place where it ought to succeed. Granted, I don't think central control could do anything better, but it seems like the engineer's response should be to figure out a self-correcting system that really corrects--build a better dollar!
12:10:19 PM,
Tuesday 5 September 2000
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45% of Full
12:04:00 AM,
Tuesday 5 September 2000
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All Tommorow's Parties, by William Gibson
11:21:06 PM,
Monday 4 September 2000
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I've made my point, now to find the data to prove it.
10:21:58 PM,
Monday 4 September 2000
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Okay, Johnnies really should go see The Tao of Steve.
11:21:51 PM,
Sunday 3 September 2000
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Aha! Suddenly it all makes sense.
01:22:31 AM,
Sunday 3 September 2000
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Nothing to say.
01:48:26 PM,
Saturday 2 September 2000
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Ah yes, another reminder that I have fortune -a set in my .login.
11:45:43 PM,
Friday 1 September 2000
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Percent Sign.
09:08:08 PM,
Friday 1 September 2000
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Might.
07:57:47 PM,
Friday 1 September 2000
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