So Branden, another of the peasants at the Ren Faire, explained it, and it's much simpler than we all thought: If it's in color, it's porn; if it's in black and white, it's art.
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04:23:23 PM,
Tuesday 18 September 2001
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Does multiline work?
I think it just might!
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02:28:55 PM,
Tuesday 18 September 2001
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02:23:34 PM,
Tuesday 18 September 2001
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And does it keep on working right?
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02:22:01 PM,
Tuesday 18 September 2001
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This is a test. Does bloglet 2.1 work right?
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02:21:12 PM,
Tuesday 18 September 2001
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I'm sick. I hate being sick. One thing I'll say for my laptop, though: it lets me get on the net even when I'm in bed with a cold.
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12:34:06 PM,
Tuesday 18 September 2001
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The car insurance company got my payment. I'm insured again. I can drive now. (Well, okay, I need to renew my registration, but I can do that now.) It's a small nice thing, but it's a nice small thing.
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04:29:33 PM,
Thursday 13 September 2001
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"...our nation must be mindful that there are thousands of Arab-Americans who live in New York City, who love their flag just as much as [we] do, and we must be mindful that as we seek to win the war that we treat Arab-Americans and Muslims with the respect they deserve."
--George W. Bush
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03:22:57 PM,
Thursday 13 September 2001
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by Kenneth Patchen
The narrowing line.
Walking on the burning ground.
The ledges of stone.
Owlfish wading near the horizon.
Unrest in the outer districts.
Pause.
And begin again.
Needles through the eye.
Bodies cracked open like nuts.
Must have a place.
Dog has a place.
Pause.
And begin again.
Tents in the sultry weather.
Rifles hate holds.
Who is right?
Was Christ?
Is it wrong to love all men?
Pause.
And begin again.
Contagion of murder.
But the small whip hits back.
This is my life, Caesar.
I think it is good to live.
Pause.
And begin again.
Perhaps the shapes will open.
Will flying fly?
Will singing have a song?
Will the shapes of evil fall?
Will the lives of men grow clean?
Will the power be for good?
Will the power of man find its sun?
Will the power of man flame as a sun?
Will the power of man turn against death?
Who is right?
Is war?
Pause.
And begin again.
A narrowing line.
Walking on the beautiful ground.
A ledge of fire.
It would take little to be free.
That no man hate another man,
Because he is black,
Because he is yellow;
Because he is white;
Or because he is English;
Or German;
Or rich;
Or poor;
Because we are everyman.
Pause.
And begin again.
It would take little to be free.
That no man live at the expense of another.
Because no man can own what belongs to all.
Because no man can kill what all must use.
Because no man can lie when all are betrayed.
Because no man can hate when all are hated.
And begin again.
I know that the shapes will open.
Flying will fly, and singing will sing.
Because the only power of man is in good.
And all evil shall fail.
Because evil does not work,
Because the white man and the black man,
The Englishman and the German,
Are not real things.
They are only pictures of things.
Their shapes, like the shapes of the tree
And the flower, have no lives in names or signs;
They are their lives, and the real is in them.
And what is real shall have life always.
Pause.
I believe in the truth.
I believe that every good thought I have,
All men shall have.
I believe that what is best in me,
Shall be found in every man.
I believe that only the beautiful
Shall survive on the earth.
I believe that the perfect shape of everything
Has been prepared;
And, that we do not fit our own
Is of little consequence.
Man beckons to man on this terrible road.
I believe that we are going into the darkness now;
Hundreds of years will pass before the light
Shines over the world of all men...
And I am blinded by its splendor.
Pause.
And begin again.
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12:58:23 AM, Thursday 13 September 2001
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I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one thinking of this poem.
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02:17:48 PM,
Wednesday 12 September 2001
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Let us have none of this: "Clearly, this terrible event just goes to demonstrate whatever political opinions I happen to be attached to."
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12:32:21 PM,
Wednesday 12 September 2001
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11:44:44 AM,
Tuesday 11 September 2001
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Oh Jesus... what a piece of news to wake up to. (Quite literally... I was just starting to open my eyes when the news came on the radio that someone FUCKING CRASHED TWO PLANES INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER.) This is... disturbing. And I have to imagine that things will only get worse as we as a nation start reacting to it. I'd link to a news story, but every news site I've tried to go to has cracked under the load.
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11:05:44 AM,
Tuesday 11 September 2001
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Oy... 2000 hits in one day... almaden.ibm.com got caught in the Baron. Now I know why Wiki blocks search engines.
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01:21:37 AM,
Tuesday 11 September 2001
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Okay, so maybe T. S. Eliot isn't so bad after all.
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10:14:46 PM,
Monday 10 September 2001
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Mendelian Proportions in a Mixed Population, by G. H. Hardy, is online! This is a perfectly brilliant little paper, and is one of the first applications of mathematics to the science of genetics. It's one of the best readings in the biology segment of senior lab at St. John's--and there are some very good readings in there. More personally, this is the paper that, for me, turned evolution from a mere opinion, held only out of faith in what I has always been taught, into something I'm willing to claim as a scientific fact. By itself, of course, it doesn't prove anything too sweeping or huge, but it demonstrates the possibility of treating biology with the same tools of abstraction that are used in physics. It is also--and this is the part that I find so appealing--the first paper (as far as I know) to prove that evolution must follow as a consequence of the basic observed facts of genetics. After this paper, evolution is something to be expected--if it did not occur, that would require some additional force to explain it.
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08:40:25 PM,
Monday 10 September 2001
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I need to be trepanized like I need a hole in my head.
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08:08:47 PM,
Sunday 9 September 2001
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I like extremely cold weather in moderation. More than extremely hot weather.
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03:35:11 PM,
Sunday 9 September 2001
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"He loves you and he wants you to vote--he's never had a blowjob and he doesn't own a tape recorder--he loves you and he wants you to vote--"
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03:59:06 AM,
Sunday 9 September 2001
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Quote: Bug Fairies Daily (So its more like bi-weekly.)
Observation: I remember there was always a big stack of bi-weeklies in the coffee shop at St. John's. Actually, I guess they were more gay than bi.
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02:42:33 AM,
Sunday 9 September 2001
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Kerne's bloglet is no more. Read his final entry for the full story. As mentioned there, I have real world contact information for him, for anyone who wants it, since email is no longer an option.
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02:07:10 PM,
Saturday 8 September 2001
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Moira had already graduated from St. John's before any of the blogledytes arrived, but she has a weblog, too--you may remember that I linked to it a while back, when she linked to me. I didn't really start reading it at the time, but I have in the past week or so, and I must say, it makes for good reading. I'm not adding it to the sidebar just yet, because if I do that I'll feel compelled to compulsively Google out every single damned Johnny weblog on the planet, but I do recommend it.
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12:10:19 AM,
Saturday 8 September 2001
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Is there such a thing as hacker's block?
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08:37:01 PM,
Friday 7 September 2001
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R.L. Burnside is the coolest man alive.
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02:23:09 PM,
Friday 7 September 2001
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Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what your country's done for you lately.
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01:19:11 PM,
Friday 7 September 2001
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"Tell me who to smote and they shall be smotten."
-- Matt Haughey
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02:56:59 PM,
Thursday 6 September 2001
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If only people wouldn't drastically oversimplify every single goddamned issue, there'd be a lot more reasonable discussion in this world.
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02:30:32 PM,
Thursday 6 September 2001
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Nader was not simply "a candidate to the left of Gore", and he did not simply wish to move the Democratic party to the left. He claimed that both parties were the same not because they were both too conservative to distinguish, but because they were identical on the particular issues that were the focus of his campaign. The value of his campaign is that it drew attention to these issues, which are important to significant minorities from both parties. Nader voters were by no means guaranteed to vote for Gore otherwise. Why is all this so hard for people to understand?
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02:28:30 PM,
Thursday 6 September 2001
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Is it 'metaphysician' or 'metaphysicist'?
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12:32:51 PM,
Thursday 6 September 2001
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Huzzah! Nate's back!
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12:19:03 PM,
Thursday 6 September 2001
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And in the spirit of this:
Top Five Sexiest Program Authors:
Jane Austen
Soren Kierkegaard
Euripedes
Dante Alighieri
Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel
honorable mention: Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare1
Top Five Sexiest Program Characters:
Sofya Aleksandrovna (Sonya), War and Peace
Antigone, Antigone
Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice
Satan, Paradise Lost (not the Bible or the Divine Comedy)
Dido, Aeneid
honorable mention: Ophelia2, Phaedrus, Rosalind (from As You Like It)
Seminar books only--use the list for whichever campus you attended. If you didn't go to St. John's, use either list.
1. If, despite all the evidence of reason, Bacon and Shakespeare were in fact the same man, then he was sexier than Hegel.
2. Performed properly (i.e., with a bit of edge to her), Ophelia may be sexier than Dido.
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02:34:57 AM,
Thursday 6 September 2001
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I've said several times (though possibly not on here) how much I wish ActionScript supported exception handling. I take it all back. Given the Flash development community's obsession with hideously unreadable speed hacks, I should be thankful that they don't have exceptions available to them.
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06:37:09 PM,
Wednesday 5 September 2001
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Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
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04:48:41 PM,
Tuesday 4 September 2001
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They want weapons / to arm themselves / against every childhood fear -- / they want rockets / to fly up to heaven / and get the hell out of here.
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01:56:27 PM,
Tuesday 4 September 2001
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Ooh! You could make vim store a complete revision history of any document you work with, but diff'ing the current version against the automatic backup every time the document is saved. Come to think of it, there's a fair chance this could even work in vi. And with some creative macroifying, the interface could even be pretty convenient. Golly. Must think more on this.
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01:28:30 PM,
Tuesday 4 September 2001
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Actually, I'm afraid I've never seen (or read, for that matter) Les Miserables.
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12:46:29 PM,
Tuesday 4 September 2001
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