Wittemore-Durgin, a fairly local supplier of stained glass makings. Also one of the stranger functional websites I've encountered. Strangeness that emerges unexpected from the ordinary is more effective than the openly bizarre.
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06:46:05 PM,
Monday 27 December 2004
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Welding is an excellent christmas activity.
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01:24:53 PM,
Monday 27 December 2004
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Stark, New Hampshire. This is my current favorite New Hampshire town name, beating out Gonic and Rindge.
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10:58:31 AM,
Tuesday 14 December 2004
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Dressing warmly is cheaper than a car or cabfare. Today has made it clear that I need to invest more in warm clothing. Erika has made me what the english seem to call a neck tube, which deals with the chin and breathing, but fogs my glasses if I'm not careful, and fleece might be more windproof. Water-shedding goggles that fit over my glasses and covered the bridge of my nose are the missing piece. I kept thinking I was going to run someone down on the bike path on the way home because I could barely see. The bridge of my nose is still cold and tight-feeling, and it's been half an hour. My woolen pants are good, a second pair are in order. I cycled home through the not quite freezing rain, and my legs are fine, except my right ankle, where I'd tucked my pants into my horrible cotton socks. One of those horrible reflective velcro straps would save the elastic on my socks. (The cyclists who wear two horrible reflective velcro straps bother me. The chain is only one side.) Woolen socks couldn't hurt, either. Something to stop the water running down the back of my neck.
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05:36:05 PM,
Tuesday 7 December 2004
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The bridge club we went to has a jigsaw off to the side for people who are sitting out. This seems right to me, but I'm not quite sure why. Both appeal to people who enjoy imposing order on chaos, perhaps. These are different from tidy people. A truly tidy person would hate a jigsaw, because they take so long to organize, while an ordering mind doesn't mind complex, unruly surroundings, because makes even the simplest tasks, like finding of keys, more challenging.
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03:58:15 PM,
Thursday 2 December 2004
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Earlier today, the higher, distant clouds were moving past faster than the nearby clouds, angularly speaking. This did strange things to my sense of space.
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03:49:53 PM,
Tuesday 30 November 2004
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My pet project got approval! It's basically a set of things that our product is capable of demoing but not actually doing, but we keep selling anyway. For about a year I've been whining that we should do it this other way. Over the past few months I did a prototype kind of thing as a plan B for our one client, and my predictions of doom have come to pass, so now I get to develop my approach as a product, with a stupid ungainly name and everything. V. Excited. Is my ticket out of power-userdom and into product development.
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05:28:15 PM,
Friday 19 November 2004
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Nothing offends a snob more than a less informed snob.
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12:02:50 PM,
Friday 19 November 2004
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Unforeseen benefit of winter: When it's dark outside, I can see who is walking past behind me reflected in the window without having to turn around and make eye contact, which is awkward, because there's nothing to say, but silent eye contact seems churlish. I should get a mirror. I feel so much more comfortable knowing there's no one back there making faces or preparing to throw rocks. ack--discovered drawback. Can see myself in window, peering over the top of the monitor.
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04:46:09 PM,
Friday 12 November 2004
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Snow.
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01:16:22 PM,
Friday 12 November 2004
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When I'm talking to someone who doesn't know me, I almost always have a lead-in sentence of good-natured pointlessness so they can calibrate without missing anything. I wonder if this is a more common behavior among the accented.
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11:18:54 AM,
Friday 12 November 2004
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If it weren't for perl, I'd be having a great day.
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01:46:31 PM,
Friday 5 November 2004
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