Moss's Bloglet

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This is the personal weblog of Moss Collum, a programmer living in Healdsburg, CA. I mostly blog about tech stuff, linguistics, politics, and fun things I find on the web, but there's really no set topic.

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Note that the "Bloglet" of my page title is the Perl script I use for my blogging, not the other, better known Bloglet.

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One of my coworkers has a friend who went to St. John's, in the class of 2003 or 2004. I don't think I know the person in question, but just in case, my coworker asked them if they knew of me. Their reaction, apparently, was to say: Oh, Moss Collum, from the Internet! _
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12:05:32 AM, Sunday 9 September 2007

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It's also easier to make double posts from the phone, and harder to correct them. How cruelly I suffer. _
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10:10:01 PM, Wednesday 5 September 2007

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As may be clear from the pictures, we're happily arrived in Boston. However, the internets won't get here until the 13th, so until then we're Trapped In The Twentieth Century. It's terrifying! How did people live back then? I can read blogs and email from my phone--which may take away from that whole Twentieth Century thing--but I can't comment, which is often maddening. Thankfully, all the necessary corrections seem to have been made about my brief career in rock and roll, save one: it wasn't just vocals, I also played kazoo. _
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10:09:01 PM, Wednesday 5 September 2007

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View From The New Office
View From The New Office
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10:48:04 AM, Tuesday 4 September 2007

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The Trouble With Ikea Furniture
The Trouble With Ikea Furniture
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08:04:05 PM, Sunday 2 September 2007

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Oh, hey, that's weird: now that I live on the East coast, the timestamps on my bloglet entries actually reflect the times when they were posted! Yet another problem that solves itself if you just ignore it for seven years! _
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12:18:45 AM, Friday 31 August 2007

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This is pretty much completely brilliant. _
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12:17:10 AM, Friday 31 August 2007

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Lessons learned at work today: "So, everybody knows PurpleMonkeyDishwasher goes in the box!" _
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05:19:58 PM, Friday 24 August 2007

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"No smoking pigs can land their boats here!" _
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09:48:05 PM, Thursday 23 August 2007

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Hyde Park
Hyde Park
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07:07:06 PM, Thursday 23 August 2007

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That Way
That Way
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03:08:34 PM, Saturday 18 August 2007

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Lichen
Lichen
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02:30:07 PM, Saturday 18 August 2007

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Driving Weather
Driving Weather
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05:46:00 PM, Friday 17 August 2007

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St. Rd.
St. Rd.
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04:18:24 PM, Friday 17 August 2007

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Fountains
Fountains
This is apparently a monument to something, but I've decided I'm just going to call it The Bellagio. _
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10:23:07 PM, Sunday 12 August 2007

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Flat
Flat
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10:07:24 PM, Sunday 12 August 2007

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Bigger Than It Looks At A Distance
Bigger Than It Looks At A Distance
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10:04:27 PM, Sunday 12 August 2007

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The Monument Looks Down Over Washington With Angry Red Eyes
The Monument Looks Down Over Washington With Angry Red Eyes
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10:00:32 PM, Sunday 12 August 2007

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Hello Washington
Hello  Washington
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09:41:33 PM, Sunday 12 August 2007

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Overheard: "We iz going to haz Indian foodz. Quieres haz Indian foodz?"

How many languages is this? And what are they? _
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06:28:05 PM, Friday 10 August 2007

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Learned today (in reverse order):

Altogether, a successful day. _
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08:35:43 PM, Tuesday 7 August 2007

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Diagramming Code
Diagramming Code
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12:47:56 PM, Wednesday 1 August 2007

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I'll be in Washington, D.C., August 13-17 for Agile 2007. A lot of the time I'm sure I'll be busy with conference stuff, but I expect I'll have some free evenings. So, I'm not sure of everyone's exact geography, but I know some of y'all are in or near D.C.: want to hang out some evening that week? _
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12:05:35 AM, Wednesday 1 August 2007

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Mishap
Mishap
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07:21:46 PM, Sunday 29 July 2007

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Dude! No!
Dude! No!
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03:07:01 PM, Saturday 28 July 2007

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The Subway At Night
The Subway At Night
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03:06:35 PM, Saturday 28 July 2007

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If You Want To Destroy My Sweater
If You Want To Destroy My Sweater
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06:06:59 PM, Thursday 26 July 2007

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Do Not Exit
Do Not Exit
I should note that the doors were closed at this point. Discovery of the night: the Atlanta airport's train between concourses runs much faster before midnight. _
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01:45:14 AM, Saturday 21 July 2007

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This Guy
This Guy
Seen in the Houston St. subway stop. _
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10:40:56 PM, Sunday 15 July 2007

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A Real Pity
A Real Pity
The real question is: did whoever ordered this pizza get gelato in Healdsburg a few weeks ago? _
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09:50:00 PM, Sunday 15 July 2007

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Wall
Wall
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04:50:14 PM, Sunday 15 July 2007

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Sunday Afternoon Catblogging
Sunday Afternoon Catblogging
Though really, I took th picture Thursday evening or thereabouts. _
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03:04:55 PM, Sunday 15 July 2007

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Tree
Tree
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06:43:11 PM, Sunday 8 July 2007

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Kitchen Sweet Kitchen
Kitchen Sweet Kitchen
By 'sweet', I presumably mean tiny. _
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11:48:05 AM, Sunday 8 July 2007

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Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home
This is where I'll be living in New York for the next couple of months or so. _
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11:43:46 AM, Sunday 8 July 2007

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Tesuji
Tesuji
Number of cats I know named after Go terms: 2. _
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03:06:26 AM, Friday 6 July 2007

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