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John Perry Barlow
So predictable as to be the equivalent of silence
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Load Test
There is a concurancy in transactions that is notfully realized in the stateless inventorythat we do every afternoon before taking our children to t-ballor reading from a book There is a user within the design methodologywho does not complete the transactionbefore the abend or the core is created and replicatedand never fully diagnosed.
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John Ashbery
A poem that communicates something that’s already known to a reader is not really communicating anything
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Good Earth Tea
I started drinking this tea while reading the Oprah Book Club selection of the same name. The book was great – dark, cynical, big themed & simply written. The tea however is even better – it makes me get all philosophical. I spend time thinking about how I interacted with people – I think about…
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth – Chris Ware
Absolutely amazing. This depressed me for three complete days. The loneliness, isolation, complete inability to communicate, the historical sweep, interconnectedness – everything thing about this is completely amazing. I do not know how Ware is able to do this – and one amazing aspect of his work is the post-modern self confidence of everything that…
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Hunter S Thompson
wow – just heard that he died. One of the ur-bloggers passing is an event to remember. He had some many great quotes – the stuff about the high water mark of the sixties, the being a white guy listening to gangst rap in an suv, the hey rube stuff, the curse of lono, meating…
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Sick
I have this horrible cold – ugly cough, can barely speak, body aches. Lisa and the kids had this last week. Being sick really limits my ability to get involved – I always feel like I have to shut down and protect what health I have – a real fear of over extending my self.…
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Rain
started last night. likely last out the weekend. when one has kids rain presents all sorts of additional challenges – may be a mall trip will be in our weekend plans. I had a friend who was pissed off that the weather man lied about when this storm would start – all angry that it…
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Art Forum
Tuesday I was going to pick up the latest issue of Art Forum – trying to get reconnected with modern art. It cost eight dollars, which does not seem that unreasonable. however, it is completely packed with ads. now my problem with the ads was not so much that they got in the way or…
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Darwin
The cult of Darwin continues to grow. by this I mean that basically there are three types of people in the world – people who think Darwin was the biggest intellectual of the 20th century, people that think Einstien had the most influence, and people who think Freud was number one. I would guess that…
