The theory is that the only difference between morning people and the rest of us is that they get up when they wake up the first time. The problem I'm running into is that can be anywhere between 3am and 10am. I'm averaging out to a morning person, but that isn't quite efficient.
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12:12:03 PM,
Monday 31 January 2005
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Somewhere inside my camera a little rechargable battery has given up the ghost, so now whenever I change batteries the date and settings get lost. The manual claims that all it needs to revive it is being left with fresh batteries for a while, but it hasn't helped. The battery would only cost pennies to replace, I'm sure, but it would mean either taking the camera somewhere or taking it apart. Before I take it apart, I'd have accept the possibility that I might kill it. Sigh.
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10:50:55 PM,
Friday 28 January 2005
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I just used an xor at work. I feel vaguely naughty, as though I should put in a comment explaining it.
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05:18:55 PM,
Friday 28 January 2005
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The cowardice of political calculation is very clear in how Talking Points Memo and others are dealing with the Social Security question. People who regularly talk up the financial crisis of the US government, worry about the deficit, are suddenly saying there is no crisis in Social Security, because of all the US treasury bonds Social Security has been buying. You can always juggle the crisis from one bit of government to the other, move the debt somewhere else, but the fact is that there is a financial crisis, and social security is part of it. It is a source of revenue that is going to be dry in 13 years. Bushes proposals might be counter-productive, certainly the Medicare drug benefit was, but that doesn't mean there is no crisis.
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08:18:49 PM,
Thursday 27 January 2005
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Just heard Jim Wallis on NPR. He's the editor of Sojourners, which I'd never heard of. Speaks beautifully, which means I can't quite trust my reactions, but wow. A christian talking head talking sense and decency in politics, something I haven't heard. I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone talking sense and decency in politics, in fact, or at least not in the public sphere. There's always a villian, or a political opportunity to exploit, or an morally bankrupt care to avoid judgement, a underlying calcuation of political benefit. Reminds me strongly of when I first read Aquinas; the shock I felt to realize that he was trying to be decent, not simply to be pious; that he didn't believe there could be a difference, and that our sense of decency was real and true. Being good is terribly difficult. It isn't simply not being bad; that's only half of it. Hermits are profoundly selfish. Symbolic good intentions are useless, if you are unable to actually do good; reality is the test. The charge lead by Faramir was evil, because it failed. Religion often disengages from reality, because reality is hard. Morality, in fact, forget religion, morality often disengages from reality, becomes abstract and systematic, because then it's easy. Good Government, or Good Anything, must first be capable, not frivolous, not symbolic.
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08:13:35 PM,
Thursday 27 January 2005
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Danger Mouse!
Most importantly:
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10:02:16 PM,
Wednesday 26 January 2005
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07:50:57 AM,
Tuesday 25 January 2005
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07:50:14 AM,
Tuesday 25 January 2005
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a driveway dune
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07:48:21 AM,
Tuesday 25 January 2005
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Oh good. I had forgotten why I had sworn off REM. Hope just came up
on shuffle. This was their alternate set of lyrics for Leonard
Cohen's Suzanne. They have completely abandoned the shimmering pop
song for, I don't know what. For the next Everybody Hurts.
Meanwhile, I'm quite pleased with Tegan and Sara, and the Finn
Brothers will be here the first week of March.
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05:41:03 PM,
Monday 24 January 2005
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1: A disproportionate number of professors have beards.
2: These beards must help them succeed as professors, otherwise they wouldn't have them.
3: For genetic reasons, women have less aptitude for growing beards.
4: Women are innately less suited to being university professors.
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05:40:30 PM,
Monday 24 January 2005
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A gauge near the bath showing the amount of hot water available, so that bathers don't settle in for a evenings soak only to run out of warm water. Either that, or one of those nifty on-demand water heaters.
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06:50:52 PM,
Friday 21 January 2005
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