Archives for September 2002

protest ants

2105 words, 6 comments September 2, 2002 2:28am

I attended my first major protest two weeks ago when President Bush came to town. Although I had been to a few other carry-signs, march-around-downtown, ...

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78 words, no comments September 4, 2002 11:30am

There is a tremendous racket occurring on the roof of our office building, which also happens to be our ceiling. It sounds (and sometimes feels) roughly ...

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75 words, no comments September 4, 2002 5:24pm

Big Score at Timber Press: I now have keys to the building where I work. True, they aren't my own copies, but those of someone who is always here when ...

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185 words, 1 comment September 5, 2002 2:31pm

A high school student e-mailed me today with the results of an experiment her class had done involving how Hershey's kisses land when tossed. The ...

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185 words, no comments September 10, 2002 12:37am

Am I losing my mind, or just my edge? The constant onslaught from the Bush administration seeking to prove that we absolutely have to attack Iraq ...

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48 words, no comments September 10, 2002 12:46pm

This morning, my head somehow managed to play selections from Squirrel Nut Zippers' Hot and Philip Glass' Koyaanisqatsi at the same time. You'd be surprised ...

b.c. buddies

216 words, no comments September 10, 2002 6:11pm

Julia and I went to Vancouver, BC over the long Labor Day weekend to celebrate the socialist labor movement with our comrades in solidarity up north. ...

an american celebration!

837 words, 8 comments September 10, 2002 7:11pm

Tomorrow, as anyone with access to some sort of communication device knows, is September 11th. Much in the same way that July 4th is not merely ...

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111 words, no comments September 10, 2002 10:51pm

Okay, just when I was going to send a check off to George Bush to pay for a warhead to knock off Saddam, along comes Tom Tomorrow. Thank goodness. Not ...

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16 words, no comments September 13, 2002 1:29am

Hey, wow. Friday the 13th two days after September 11th. That can't be good.

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73 words, no comments September 13, 2002 2:01am

Bush to China: "We'll believe your lies (It's the New York Times web site; you know the drill) about the people you want to crush if you believe (Ibid.) ...

watch me now

272 words, no comments September 13, 2002 2:03am

I got a new watch while I was up in Vancouver. That makes for the second Swatch I've bought in Canada, both of which had alarms on them. In ...

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136 words, no comments September 13, 2002 2:23am

Text! Text! Text! Okay, so I got impatient and went ahead and put up this new column, even though I'm not near done with all the code that needs, um, ...

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26 words, no comments September 14, 2002 4:44pm

You know, I bet not too many people, on their deathbed, have said, "I wish I had seen Big Top Pee-Wee."

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27 words, no comments September 16, 2002 4:03pm

Urgle ... reading dry documentation standards on four hours of sleep late in the afternoon is not a formula for success.

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166 words, no comments September 18, 2002 10:36am

My friend Jerry recently returned from a trip back home to Indiana. I enjoyed his encapsulation of the culture there: Everybody (everybody) has an electric ...

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176 words, no comments September 18, 2002 11:37am

Today I picked up a book lying around the office, only to find that every page was blank. There was no ink to be found in the book ? not even on the cover. ...

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81 words, no comments September 19, 2002 3:36am

There is something happy-making about stopping work on your freelance web project late at night, knowing that not only is it one of the best-looking web ...

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107 words, no comments September 19, 2002 3:41am

Another one from the referral logs. Somebody actually found my site using this "Google mirror", as they call it. [joke about "reverse engineering ha ha"]. ...

wolf blitzkrieg

710 words, no comments September 19, 2002 4:32am

Ooh, look! CNN revamped their webpage. Here are some articles I found worth commenting on. Let's get cynical! Saddam claims that Bush wants ...

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147 words, no comments September 20, 2002 4:09am

Hmm. My alma mater, Rice University, is Seventeen's coolest university. Perhaps things have changed since I was there, but I still have vivid memories ...

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230 words, no comments September 22, 2002 11:41pm

In keeping with the next week's theme of going bat-freaking insane with work (freelance web projects, normal work stuff, and preparing for a trip to Italy ...

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51 words, no comments September 24, 2002 3:28am

I'm wondering if, for my trip to Italy, I should learn useful phrases like "no, I'm not a big fan of Bush's policies, either" or "don't blame me, I didn't ...

in deep

271 words, no comments September 25, 2002 4:39am

So in reading an article on a friend's blog, I came across an article on deep linking, the practice of linking to useful content rather than just ...

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64 words, no comments September 25, 2002 4:17pm

A while back, I got an e-mail from a T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project visitor. The bulk of his message was: [I am the] Director of Education at Lincoln Children's ...

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95 words, no comments September 25, 2002 4:20pm

Though this link was e-mailed to me a while back, I am just now getting around to posting it, owing to my extreme laziness or busy-tude. Regardless, ...

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89 words, no comments September 25, 2002 11:24pm

Huh. a guy from my graduating class at Rice is now the CEO of a company. After having been a vice president elsewhere. And here I am, what, doing ...

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175 words, no comments September 26, 2002 4:40am

Mere days are left before the Italy trip. At this same point before my first trip to Europe, I was frantically running around outside and up and ...

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45 words, no comments September 26, 2002 11:38am

Overheard in the office: "Nobody told me they were shooting a movie in front of my house." "Oh! You should take the kitties down to the ...

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130 words, no comments September 27, 2002 2:32am

Hooray for half- ... um, -heartedness! Tired of the previous hack wherein I displayed every blessed thought I'd posted, I have have come up with ...

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156 words, no comments September 28, 2002 2:20am

The folks at USBank apparently pride themselves on their service, which comes with a five (!) star guarantee, but I'm not sure any of those stars explains ...

bulletproof with butterfly wings

245 words, no comments September 28, 2002 3:58am

So Defense Secretary Rumsfeld has "bulletproof" evidence that ties Iraq to Al Qaeda. That evidence, however, is "not beyond a reasonable doubt". ...

conspiracy of dunces

413 words, no comments September 28, 2002 4:58am

More fodder for cynicism is to be found in a New York Times article on Democratic opposition to the clamor for war in Iraq. [Ted] Kennedy's ...

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87 words, 1 comment September 30, 2002 2:35am

In Oregon, as in other states, we have these humorous anti-smoking billboards that parody old Marlboro advertisements. One of them shows two cowboys ...

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111 words, no comments September 30, 2002 2:42am

While my parents and I were hiking out at Silver Falls State Park, we met an older man who told us this anecdote: "I went to Marie Callender's ...

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