The heavenly painter was going all out on my walk home. Clouds upon clouds in wisps and streaks of every color, or great big white billows. I didn't take any pictures so you'll just have to take my word for it.
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07:42:16 PM,
Wednesday 8 October 2008
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When calling my insurance agency about my short-term disability claim just now I got the following message: "Due to unforeseen circumstances the Hartford Group is temporarily closed". Whew. Apparently their stock just took a nosedive.
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12:24:18 PM,
Tuesday 30 September 2008
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11:05:15 AM, Tuesday 30 September 2008
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Libby suggests a resurrection of blog swappingness. How about halloween themed cookies? Or mixes? Or both? Who's in for either?
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10:16:10 PM,
Monday 29 September 2008
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07:53:30 PM, Monday 29 September 2008
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07:53:19 PM, Monday 29 September 2008
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07:53:07 PM, Monday 29 September 2008
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Obama: We must act swiftly. We must act wisely.
Tim: Or to put it a different way, we must act swizely.
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02:26:18 PM,
Saturday 27 September 2008
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Spent today cleaning, reading, and walking in the rain. Rain on puddles and rocks and ponds is one of the best things.
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06:58:32 PM,
Friday 26 September 2008
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Icelandic for the days of the week:
Sun Day, Moon Day, Third Day, Mid-week Day, Fifth Week Day, Fast Day, Washing Day.
Thank you, wikipedia
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07:23:26 PM,
Tuesday 23 September 2008
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Does anyone else find all the talk of how politicians are trying to appeal to different blocs of voters disturbingly cynical, classist, racist? It's as if as voters we are walking race and income statistics, and will only vote based on "our" issues. What the hell? It's as if no one in the entire system believes that voters are real human beings with individual interests who use actual judgement to make decisions. Maybe I listen to too much NPR.
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06:13:43 PM,
Monday 22 September 2008
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McCain last week: "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." All sorts of pundits are saying it too, like some sort of incantation. Will it avert doom and chaos? Here is a short history lesson. On the day after the market started to crash in 1929:
Charles M. Schwab said that the steel business had been making "fundamental progress" toward stability and added that this "fundamentally sound condition" was responsible for the prosperity of the industry; Samuel Vauclain, Chairman of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, declared that "the fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis." President Hoover said that "the fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound an prosperous basis."...and then came the Great Depression, so guess it didn't work so well. But I suppose it is worth a try. _
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash 1929
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06:01:01 PM, Monday 22 September 2008
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Saw Al-Kindi and the Whirling Dervishes of Damascus last night. It is difficult to describe such an experience. I mean I knew that the point of this music and dancing was to induce a trance-like state of ecstasy, but I didn't expect it to work so damn well. It was possible to just fall into the music and keep falling. Time and space opened up, there was nothing but just the music, constantly pulling one away from one's small ego. In such an experience there is not a question of whether God exists, there is just awe. Sorry to go all mystical, but I think it is entirely justified. Afterwards we were all just reeling. The performers bowed, we left the theater, the world closed up again, the concert became merely a concert. They were short three performers because they were stopped at the border and couldn't get visas. This world is a fucked up place.
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10:27:23 AM,
Sunday 21 September 2008
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If you can talk about it, it ain't Tao. Actually a serious translation, well by serious, I mean as far as these things go. Refreshing. Get right with Tao, folks.
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07:50:47 PM,
Tuesday 16 September 2008
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Time passes.
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10:32:19 AM,
Tuesday 16 September 2008
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Does it mean a thing if it ain't got that swing?
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09:32:59 PM,
Sunday 14 September 2008
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Did video kill the radio star?
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10:52:26 AM,
Saturday 13 September 2008
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Looking on the bright side: some people go to gurus and pay money to sit around doing absolutely nothing for days at a stretch (I'm not entirely being ironic here either).
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03:04:01 PM,
Tuesday 9 September 2008
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I see wind ripples on the pond, a fairy forest of pink flowers by my knee.
I rest on something. It's not even faith. The world is solid, I am always drifting and returning. The exactitude of the real defeats imagination.
I have been many worse places. If I could think, if I could act, I could stay here.
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01:18:29 PM,
Monday 8 September 2008
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02:32:14 PM, Sunday 7 September 2008
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02:31:58 PM, Sunday 7 September 2008
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02:22:45 PM, Sunday 7 September 2008
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It starts to rain. I eat an orange (which I have been toting around with me all day, like some sort of talisman).
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07:49:15 PM,
Saturday 6 September 2008
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Sleepy. Bored. Incapable of doing much. Have a cold on top of everything else. Attention span of five minutes or so, makes reading difficult. Seem to have thoroughly exhausted my non-attention-requiring websurfing resources. Looking for music to download (requirement: able to be listened to as main activity, and on the calm side). Any suggestions?
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05:28:49 PM,
Saturday 6 September 2008
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Neville, Percival, and Jinny are all names of major characters in The Waves, and also of minor characters in Harry Potter. Just noting.
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08:31:33 AM,
Friday 5 September 2008
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The following showed up in my inbox today:
Erika, this is a reminder for [RTM] Fish Birthday Fri Sep 12, 2008 (Timezone: Eastern Time) Calendar: Erika #7's birthday!
I was like Fish Birthday? WT? Ah... #7 is one of our Rasboras. Actually it's #7-10's birthday. Or rather, acquirement day. Happy acquirement day, #7-10! Also, Past Erika, you are weird. _
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05:12:40 PM, Thursday 4 September 2008
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The lemonade had a fly in, and the butter I left out to make cookies melted in the sun, and we ate all the eggs for lunch anyway.
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01:56:26 PM,
Thursday 4 September 2008
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01:38:59 PM, Thursday 4 September 2008
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What do we do with a happy sailor?
What do we do with a happy sailor?
What do we do with a happy sailor?
Early in the morning
Put him in a long boat 'til he's jaded
Put him in a long boat 'til he's jaded
Put him in a long boat 'til he's jaded
Early in the morning
(Tim's silliness, I am merely recording it).
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01:17:13 PM,
Thursday 4 September 2008
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This experiment appears to have been rather more expensive than ours. Bet they didn't use sour gummi bears though. Haven't finished looking at it; linking so I don't forget to.
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03:47:29 PM,
Sunday 31 August 2008
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Ice Road Truckers episodes are available for 99 cents on iTunes. Watched the first, highly recommend it especially for the Canadian rookie who can't find enough swear words for the whiteout on his first run.
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06:04:04 PM,
Friday 29 August 2008
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07:26:12 AM, Thursday 28 August 2008
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I like xkcd less today than I did yesterday.
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08:25:32 PM,
Monday 25 August 2008
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I think the internet must be broken. I can't find a fan page for the Radish Spirit.
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07:22:34 PM,
Monday 25 August 2008
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07:35:49 PM, Sunday 24 August 2008
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03:01:30 PM, Thursday 14 August 2008
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