Also harvested today: 12 oz of vegetable matter from the aquarium, perhaps a months worth of growth, primarily hair algae and elodea.
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06:23:46 PM,
Saturday 9 April 2005
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We have accumulated 1 1/4 pounds of plastic grocery bags over the past 18 months.
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12:53:59 PM,
Saturday 9 April 2005
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So, I was going to take a vitimin pill. I thought I'd start slowly on the taking care of oneself scale, so if I ever do need a haircut again I'll be prepared. Anyway, I dropped the pill in a glass, and immediately poured water over it. I felt so clever I thought I'd tell the whole world about it.
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12:19:05 PM,
Friday 8 April 2005
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Yay! My next set of Bujold novels has been delivered! The hourly checking of the package tracker clearly paid off.
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04:52:17 PM,
Monday 4 April 2005
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Office microwaves should come with a wireless beeper that you can take to your desk with you.
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01:33:32 PM,
Monday 4 April 2005
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What this household needs is some Crustaceans.
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09:17:08 PM,
Sunday 3 April 2005
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I bought SHEEP a couple months ago, off the shelf of the local game store. I got depressed at the time, because I thought, oh, I guess my idea wasn't so new after all, thinking it would be a different but thematically similar game. It didn't even cross my mind that it might be an implementation of my game.
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06:29:24 PM,
Friday 1 April 2005
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Also, the sample game for developing games for Nokia phones in java was called Sheepdog. And this looks very much like my game, with foxes.
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06:11:29 PM,
Friday 1 April 2005
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Okay, this is just weird. A finally mustered the courage playing Sheep, the Playstation game that came out in 2000. I was expecting a bad 3d lemmings clone, or something. It's my game. It has a bark button, it has a run-faster button, the sheep move in the same way, the counter showing how many sheep you have and how many you've got to the goal, everything. There's absolutely no way this is a coincidence. I put Sheepdog out on a kiddie website in spring 1999. I mean, they added a lot of other stuff, but the basic gameplay is identical, and I know perfectly well that it was a brand new idea when I had it. I mean, it was freeware, open source, everything. I guess it's neat that someone thought it would be worth making into a real game. I wouldn't have minded an email or job or something, though.
Here's an interview with the designer.
I'm seriously freaked out by this. I keep thinking, there are 6 billion people, it has to be a coincidence, but it's just too much.
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05:21:21 PM,
Friday 1 April 2005
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I've had an idea that could revolutionize the rubber band packing industry.
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11:44:29 AM,
Friday 1 April 2005
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Is there anything stopping a town from abolishing the age requirement for local elections? Besides the AARP, I mean. The 26th amendment has nothing to say about it; it just says that no one over 18 can lose their vote based on age.
This is a practical thought first. I live in a young town, but even here the school funding is held up by the retirees. Letting children vote, giving parents votes for their children, or some combination would smooth out a bias in our democracy, sort of thing. Children and parent have more stake in government, particularly local government, than anyone else.
You could argue that children don't pay taxes, but neither do retirees. If you're going to argue that one, then 1 vote equals $1 in taxes. Which, come to think of it, would be kind of elegant, as far as lobbying for tax loopholes is concerned.
I like giving children the vote better, because it lets us use the current system, and not worry about ghost children, custody of votes, and similar. Don't see any reason to have a minimum age, really. Voting age is a misplaced bit of queasiness about democracy.
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05:37:25 PM,
Wednesday 30 March 2005
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I've had two calls from Automated Rob from the DOVE foundation. First time, I think my accent threw him, but the second time, he did much better. He even understood when I asked whether he was a recording. "Do I sound that bad? Ha ha ha" I keep hoping he'll try again so I can ask him about the legal issues surrounding using Turing Test Telemarketers.
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09:01:43 PM,
Monday 28 March 2005
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