Page of Moss - bloglet for Friday 12 October 2001

filler entry. _
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02:14:41 PM, Friday 12 October 2001

Test of permission problem fix. _
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02:12:49 PM, Friday 12 October 2001

Despite appearances, I really am fairly good at programmerly laziness. I'm not nearly impatient enough yet, though.

(It need hardly be stated that I am utterly hubristic.) _
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11:44:22 AM, Friday 12 October 2001

And now the top two movies on my NetFlix queue are Into the Woods and Marat/Sade. That may be an even more disturbing combination than the last one. _
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09:40:57 PM, Wednesday 10 October 2001

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
-- George Bernard Shaw _
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08:51:27 PM, Wednesday 10 October 2001

There are 369 movie reviews on IMDB by someone named Alice Liddel. _
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06:34:40 PM, Wednesday 10 October 2001

Someone just found m14m.net by doing a search on:
slash jeeves/wooster
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04:17:12 PM, Wednesday 10 October 2001

Wow... it appears Seth and Andrew play the same sorts of bizarre wordgames on AIM that I do. Do others do this? Go back and forth with either word associations or variations on a sentence, without really explicitly stating the rules of what's going on? It's great fun. I had a bout of word association with Mirabai one night that lasted something like half an hour. _
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04:08:52 PM, Wednesday 10 October 2001

"I'm not sick, I'm defective!"
--Dan (a coworker of mine) _
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04:45:35 PM, Tuesday 9 October 2001

Sweet! Mulla Nasrudin stories, right there on the web! _
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02:36:15 PM, Tuesday 9 October 2001

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12:15:37 PM, Tuesday 9 October 2001

Did the shadows have hilariously bad translations from Japanese? _
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03:15:52 AM, Tuesday 9 October 2001

As Neil might say: Come on, you wouldn't really prefer that. You'd have to fumigate your whole house. _
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05:08:36 PM, Monday 8 October 2001

Gothra Meets Modzilla _
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12:09:24 PM, Monday 8 October 2001

As for Katherine... a sock? _
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06:09:37 PM, Friday 5 October 2001

I prefer Aristotle's definition of Man--the featherless biped. _
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08:22:58 PM, Thursday 4 October 2001

Oh... that's fun. _
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07:53:30 PM, Thursday 4 October 2001

I would just like to point out that the two DVDs at the top of my NetFlix playlist right now are Emma (the BBC miniseries with Kate Beckinsale) and Apocalypse Now. _
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03:00:02 PM, Thursday 4 October 2001

And what costume shall the poor girl wear to all tommorow's parties? _
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02:50:47 PM, Thursday 4 October 2001

Some observations in response to this:
1) Commenting on bridgie's blog still doesn't work. This in itself is bothersome, but still more disturbing, to me personally, at least, is the fact that I actually recognize that error message at a glance.
2) Being unable to complete lots of little minor obligations seems to lead to even more stress than being unable to complete a few major ones. And that stress eventually leads to utter panic. It's weird and creepy--and it's kind of reassuring to hear that it happens to other people, too.
3) Ha! See, it's just like I said months ago when you were trying to decide what people should call you when you went to St. John's: you have no choice in the matter, you are Ms. Guildner.
4) They will continue to be vague about where the assignments end. Other particularly risky classes for this are the parts of Greek and French class where you're mostly translating--juniors and seniors take heed.
5) I won't even tell you what happens sophomore year when you're in the mood to have faith.
6) I kinda miss the days when none of the bloglets had comments, and we'd respond with linky entries like this. It didn't work as well, but it lent the whole expanding St. John's blogmass a sort of cohesion. Sort of.
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03:35:05 AM, Wednesday 3 October 2001

Some people write Hello World programs when they're learning a new language, but those are too simple. At least one wikizen (more than one, if I remember correctly) has said they write wikis in languages they're learning. I think, in keeping with the tradition set by bloglet itself, I shall make a habit of starting my hacking in a new language with a weblogging program. There's a nice range to how complex it can be, it involves manipulations of strings, dates, and files (all interesting sorts of data to deal with), and it can allow all sorts of interesting bits of experimentation. Anyway, I need to get a better grip on Python, and I've been thinking of setting up a second weblog (one for random thoughts (that's this one) and one for linky goodness (don't you want linky goodness?)), and, well, why use a perfectly good finished program when you could waste a bunch of time and energy writing a new one? Right? _
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03:20:33 AM, Wednesday 3 October 2001

Woah! A personal homepage with a beautiful design and great content? What do you think this is, 1995? No, it's dollarshort.org, which I came across purely by chance while browsing the web this evening. It's a good thing I didn't go to bed at a reasonable hour. _
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02:56:27 AM, Wednesday 3 October 2001

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