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08:30:29 PM,
Monday 16 August 2010
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I have been looking up the names one stumbles across in Wodehouse novels, and have discovered Marie Lloyd. I think the reason I find her fascinating is that she's right on the cusp of recording and broadcast. This is what popular music was. (She appears as a childhood crush of Bertie's). This means I've been listening to rather a lot of covers of old cockney music hall songs, which are just about the stickiest things imaginable. (Henery the 8th I Am is a music hall song, which makes all the sense in the world).
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06:28:54 PM,
Sunday 15 August 2010
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Our excellent toaster has finally given up the ghost, after 10 years. It's a sad world.
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06:51:04 PM,
Saturday 14 August 2010
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The new local disc golf course is all right. Not idyllic by any means, but fine. If you live nearby and have any interest in playing, let me know. The nice thing about disc golf, and, I would assume, golf of all kinds, is in the end you are successful, no matter how much foozling is involved.
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02:35:35 PM,
Saturday 14 August 2010
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I seem to be drifting back into online Othello again. I started playing during the crisis, because it's much more soothing than, say, Go or Warcraft. But it's a crazily small world. The only real advantages are that I'm good enough to win a game occasionally off the best players, and that the games take 10 minutes instead of an hour.
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04:08:04 PM,
Thursday 12 August 2010
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In the chaos somewhere, I lost my Honeywell cards for work. What I need is a portable proximity card reader. Preferably one that went 'boop', like a Geiger counter.
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11:14:38 PM,
Wednesday 11 August 2010
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The Boston Go Open is in a couple weeks. I'm sort of tempted, seeing how it isn't in the MassGo basement.
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05:06:57 PM,
Wednesday 11 August 2010
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Erika wants to shave her head, but is a cowardy custard. What does the internet think?
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04:05:45 PM,
Wednesday 11 August 2010
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I had a dream about being taken on a tour of historical new jersey in a recklessly driven winnebago. This made we wonder about the history of the place. It's the only one of the 13 original colonies that doesn't make any sense at all; no colonial city, no harbor. It feels about the same age as California. And indeed, it was basically farmland until the 20th century. It turns out it exists because James II gave it to some loyalists from Jersey, granting them the land between the Delaware and the Hudson. During the Colonial period it was at one point administered by New York, and at another split into 2 parts. It really should be split between Pennsylvania and New York. Having the suburbs in a different legal and tax jurisdiction from the city is a really bad idea. (New Jersey had no income tax until the late '70's).
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10:17:08 AM,
Wednesday 11 August 2010
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XKCD presents a timely example of a common misconception about mental illness, wherein someone is sane, but confronted with false sensory input. I think this is a common notion of mental illness because it's an easy trick to pull on a viewer in a movie, and provides cheap entertainment for those of a philosophical bent. It's easy to imagine, but it isn't how the mind actually breaks. People don't think God is talking to them because their auditory system isn't functioning right, so they hear something that they then rationally decide must be God. It's that the bit of the mind that decides if things are true goes haywire, it's a disease of confidence. It's the bit that decides if stuff matters suddenly starts stamping everything 'meaningful'. Doubt gets turned off. All the filters go. It's impossible to live in that state for any length of time and not get delusional. But art can't portray that.
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10:56:28 AM,
Friday 6 August 2010
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Civilization V is coming this fall, and they're switching to a hex based map, one unit per hex. That is all.
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03:16:41 PM,
Wednesday 4 August 2010
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I want Rush to write a sequel to 'Spirit of Radio' about the internet, but I don't think they could do it with a straight face. Somehow the internet seems less magical than radio. I cannot justify this feeling.
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09:23:58 PM,
Sunday 1 August 2010
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