I mean, seriously, knowing the correct order for the modifier statements on a proc freq statement is just the sort of computer language trivia I'd be upset if I remembered. It's like knowing unix commands, for gods sake. Only IT geeks incapable of grasping higher things memorize unix commands. I'm of the IDE generation. This stuff hurts me.
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11:24:17 PM,
Tuesday 9 October 2007
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Debugging shares a insomnia causing "Just one more turn..." dynamic with games like civilization. Except without, you know, the sense of accomplishment.
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11:15:20 PM,
Tuesday 9 October 2007
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Someone should write a dirge based on the Mario Dies theme. Or you know those life detecting machines in hospital dramas, that go BEEEEP? They could play the Mario theme instead. It's more philosophical.
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09:30:51 PM,
Tuesday 9 October 2007
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In case you were wondering what that grumbling noise was, I am slowly and reluctantly learning SAS syntax.
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08:31:05 PM,
Tuesday 9 October 2007
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I am feeling sick and grumpy.
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06:08:09 PM,
Monday 8 October 2007
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Using film without a camera.
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02:18:46 PM,
Monday 8 October 2007
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This morning NPR told me that Chris Dodd is in fact the son of a senator. This made me curious, so I looked them all up. Dodd (Senator), Romney (Governor), Clinton (President), McCain (Admiral) the only dynastic candidates. Al Gore, Both Bushes, Forbes and Kerry (related!), Kennedy all count here too.
Edwards, Obama, Richardson, Kucinich, Giuliani (mob enforcer doesn't count), Brownback, Tancredo and Gravel are without significantly influential families, that I can tell. Also Bradley, Perot, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon (Quaker!), Mondale, Dole, Carter. Oddly, in a lot of ways Perot has the most impressive biography of any of them, though I might be biased because he's the only computer geek of the lot.
I don't think this counts as class warfare, but I suppose it might be. I hadn't expected it to be so bipartisan, but I suppose it makes sense.
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01:28:58 PM,
Monday 8 October 2007
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Sometimes I watch the fish and wonder if they've developed any superstitions, rituals they think make me feed them. The most important thing in their lives, and they have no real control over it. In other news, the japanese have taught their deer to bow.
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10:30:40 AM,
Thursday 4 October 2007
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Futon gone! Gone, futon, gone! No more transformable furniture!
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05:31:21 PM,
Wednesday 3 October 2007
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Ach! So, I grew up listening to the Broadway cast of Fiddler on the Roof on 8-track in the car. That and Endless Summer and Donovan, I couldn't get enough of them. I finally saw the movie some time ago, and Tevye was good, but was also wrong and different and not nearly as ... grand. So now I finally listen to the broadway recording again for the first time since the old Chevy died, and it's a strange experience. I mean, I know every intonation of every song, every line, but now I know what things like kosher mean. But then, after listening to it through twice, I look up Zero Mostel and see Max Bailystock looking back at me. And now I can see his big silly face delivering the lines, and, ach! My childhood has been infested!
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05:47:50 PM,
Tuesday 2 October 2007
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thump, thump, thump, go the bits of roofing.
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05:07:07 PM,
Tuesday 2 October 2007
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The guys who did the siding on this house 3 years ago are back, doing something up on the roof. This morning they asked me to move the car, and commented that my hair was longer. Every once in a while I see one of them out the window. It isn't good for my stress levels.
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01:55:49 PM,
Tuesday 2 October 2007
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