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10:01:53 PM, Monday 21 July 2008

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Erika has a working beta of her latest project out. Draw something, tell it how to repeat, and make a fractal! The interface is still a bit hostile, but it's deeply addictive. _
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09:38:20 PM, Monday 21 July 2008

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My favorite fish died: Bertha, a corydoras catfish. We had 3 to start with, but the first two were smaller, and didn't live very long. Corydoras Catfish swim around, constantly snuffling. For the past couple weeks she'd been stopping and pausing mid-snuffle, drifting a bit, even when there was food to be had. Somehow I sympathized with the snuffling. She was one of the original fish I bought, January 19th, 2005, so she did well, considering she was in there for the initial cycling of the tank. She'd been pretty well eaten by one of my two ominous muppetfish, who don't have names. But that's all right. They find food by smell, and you can see this, watching them. She'd sit in a cave, and a few seconds after I put food in, she'd wake up and start nosing about. She couldn't see much at all. _
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06:10:18 PM, Monday 21 July 2008

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My cat is utterly obsessed with file cabinets.  If I leave one open for any length of time. he sits on top of it, trying to burrow in, sometimes managing to pull some papers out.  I don't know what he expects to find. _
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12:53:58 PM, Monday 21 July 2008

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I have a chess board for the first time since forever.  I had thought I had fallen out with chess, but now I think I had just fallen out with chess played online. _
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01:34:12 AM, Monday 21 July 2008

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Finally it rained. I am now happily soaked. Unfortunately, I didn't remember the camera during the initial downpour, had to go back for it, so the pictures are after it slackened off. _
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05:40:49 PM, Sunday 20 July 2008

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My childhood home is sitting on the market.  _
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10:21:37 PM, Friday 18 July 2008

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Should anyone want a Wii Fit but not want to pay scalpers or pester store clerks over the phone, online retailers are starting to get them in occasionally. _
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08:26:17 PM, Friday 18 July 2008

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Humph.  His co-sponsorship of the bill was one of the reasons I supported him.  I also think this logic is flawed: I don't see how this makes a 'George Wallace' presidency any likelier.  A serious 3 way race would be a mess in either system, but I don't see how this reform releases the flood of credible 3rd party candidates.   Also, the notion that this is going to create 100 floridas, (which he waves at but doesn't subscribe to) is cracked.  You could see this in the democratic primary.  There were the expected number of extremely close elections and allegations of fraud, but none of these mattered, because the votes were counted somewhat proportionally.

 

I'd write my state senator, but he's pre-occupied trying to get charges of "annoying and accosting a person of the opposite sex" tossed out under Article 106, recently made famous by the gay marriage decision, which would be an interesting question if I could seperate it from the case at hand. _
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04:14:25 PM, Friday 18 July 2008

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It worries me when the cat vanishes.  He's got something in his eye, and is squinting a lot, and so I've been checking up on him every hour or so (going to the vet tomorrow) and last time, I couldn't find him for the life of me.  I checked everywhere.  And the worst bit is that he then saunters out, leaving me no clue where he had got to.   I should have got a neon cat. _
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03:05:47 PM, Thursday 17 July 2008

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My grandfather was named Hugh Llewellyn Hughes.  But what I didn't know until the other day was that on the same welsh side, related by marriage, there is also a William Williams and an Ebenezer Ebenezer.  Apparently they went in for this a lot.  My mother says she went looking for William Williams's grave on Anglesea, but there were too many of them to know which one it was, and that there was also a Gwilliam Williams. _
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03:01:05 PM, Thursday 17 July 2008

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Is the availability of political contribution data on the internet creepy or progress?  Or creepy progress?  My initial feeling is that this that political donations have so much potential for corruption that there should be no expectation of privacy.  But I also think it's a good example of the tension between privacy rights and government transparency.   The line between government and citizens can be awfully hard to discern.  I mean, I guess this information could be put to a good, civic-minded use, but I don't think my poking around, trying to discern a pattern in Paulite distribution is one of them.

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02:02:19 PM, Thursday 17 July 2008

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