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11:02:20 PM,
Friday 2 January 2009
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Autumn in Conference Room 22b
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05:12:07 PM,
Tuesday 16 December 2008
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This is a different test.
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11:03:51 AM,
Sunday 14 December 2008
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Rogue for the iPhone.
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10:52:52 AM,
Sunday 14 December 2008
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Netflix Instant Viewing for the Mac + Yes, Prime Minister = yay!
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09:32:15 PM,
Wednesday 10 December 2008
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Can haz sock.
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11:13:36 PM,
Wednesday 3 December 2008
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Hi!
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10:38:22 PM,
Friday 21 November 2008
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Dulce Et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.
GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
--Wilfred Owen
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11:53:58 PM,
Tuesday 11 November 2008
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Lady Poppy McSnugglepants
Krysta's adorable hedgehog.
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09:55:31 PM,
Friday 7 November 2008
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O.o.C.Q.o.t.D.: "Oh kitten, we love you very much, even if you are a condescending flight attendant."
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01:04:35 AM,
Sunday 2 November 2008
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Julia has a cat on her chin
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11:45:45 AM,
Saturday 1 November 2008
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I'm just gonna say this: I'm not even a little bit worried about port security, and every time the Democrats bring it up as a talking point, it makes me feel vaguely embarassed for them
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12:46:55 PM,
Saturday 18 October 2008
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I know Gillen already linked to it, but this version of the video for Take On Me, with new, more literal, lyrics, is one of the best things ever:
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12:31:00 PM,
Sunday 12 October 2008
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How can you countenance someone who was engaged in bombings that could have or did kill innocent people?
--John McCain
Far from being unthinkable, this is not even a point of distinction between the candidates, both of whom spent the first debate eagerly claiming the support of Henry Kissinger.
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12:30:57 PM,
Sunday 12 October 2008
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Giving people you disagree with credit for showing logical consistency is generally a mistake. In fact, I'll go further than that: if someone is absolutely logically consistent in their beliefs, that's almost reason enough to be suspicious of them. Most of our beliefs aren't apodictic truths; they're messy attempts to resolve partial and conflicting evidence. Reasonable people recognize this, and won't cling too tightly to the conclusions of elaborate chains of logic if they have more immediate cause to doubt those conclusions.
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08:23:01 PM,
Wednesday 8 October 2008
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Nope.
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06:27:11 PM,
Wednesday 8 October 2008
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"Oh, hey, there's another presidential debate going on. Maybe I'll check it out."
a few minutes later
"Never mind, looks like they just decided to rebroadcast the last one."
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10:28:13 PM,
Tuesday 7 October 2008
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A new camera and a long walk this afternoon means pictures! I've posted a few below, and there are a few more in the Flickr photoset.
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11:25:13 PM,
Saturday 4 October 2008
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Mass Ave
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11:22:10 PM,
Saturday 4 October 2008
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Locked Fence
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11:21:09 PM,
Saturday 4 October 2008
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Geese
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11:20:39 PM,
Saturday 4 October 2008
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Bumblebee
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11:19:53 PM,
Saturday 4 October 2008
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Kitten With Tail
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09:56:55 PM,
Saturday 4 October 2008
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The blog tracker is back. Other stuff is still to come, and for now it's time for bed, but things are looking hopeful. Please let me know if you have any problems--there was some fiddling around to get it moved over to the new server, and I don't know if there's anything I missed.
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12:04:23 AM,
Tuesday 23 September 2008
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The latest Stack Overflow podcast has an interesting chat with Josh Millard (AKA cortex, one of the MetaFilter moderators) about online communities, if you're into that kind of thing. Stack Overflow, for those who don't know, is a new site for programming questions, started by Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror and Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software. It's very like a programming specific Ask MetaFilter in some ways, particularly the preference for specific answerable questions over general discussion topics, but it's also got rather a different approach to moderation, relying more on Digg- or Reddit-style voting rather than MetaFilter-style social norms.
Speaking of online communities, or something, progress continues on getting BLT and Neil's and Martin's blogs back, but is going slower than I'd like, mostly for lack of time. Currently thinking by end of Wednesday.
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07:42:46 PM,
Monday 22 September 2008
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J: "I've been spoiled for the end of Neon Genesis Evangelion."
M: "There's... something someone can say about the end of Neon Genesis Evangelion that's even comprehensible enough to act as a spoiler?"
J: "Gurl nyy uht naq rirelobql gheaf vagb Gnat."
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09:06:02 PM,
Friday 19 September 2008
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Well, shit. Here's the update on what happened last week: One of the two disk partitions on Hobbes crashed. The hosting company wasn't able to recover it. They don't have any backups, and, disgracefully, neither do I. We've lost most of Neil's blog archives, as well as my photo gallery. Everything else should be recoverable, though it'll be a few days before I can get it up and running again. I'm looking at moving to a more reliable host, and setting up a plan for backups. Both things I should have done years ago. Sorry, Neil.
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08:19:54 PM,
Tuesday 16 September 2008
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BLT will be back up when its host gets around to addressing my helpdesk ticket, and when I get a chance to restart it after that. This evening or later.
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02:07:45 PM,
Wednesday 10 September 2008
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Where The Cat Was Hiding
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02:20:58 PM,
Saturday 6 September 2008
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Why Pittsburgh Is The Coolest Airport Ever
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07:58:38 AM,
Saturday 30 August 2008
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I know a too-easy cynicism is one of those attitudes people tend to deride, but it does have its advantages as far as accuracy.
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11:01:39 PM,
Monday 18 August 2008
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This video enhancement demo is kind of amazing.
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05:33:30 PM,
Friday 15 August 2008
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This is a test.
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05:55:11 PM,
Thursday 31 July 2008
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The DECISION to DECIDE
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11:31:40 AM,
Saturday 26 July 2008
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Mulling over switching to WordPress.
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11:15:29 PM,
Wednesday 23 July 2008
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Eight years. Plus.
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09:56:44 PM,
Tuesday 15 July 2008
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