I love NPR, but I don't think it can be unbiased, and I think the maintenence of the pretense hurts it. (I can't stomach Bill Moyer myself, but the fact that it even looks like he was pressured out is bad). Also, on principle I don't like the government being in broadcasting. CSPAN is fine. CSPAN makes sense as public broadcasting. Morning Edition doesn't.
How do I square this with my impulse to defend the BBC? I don't. Something about the BBC being international, and serving humanity in a way that NPR simply isn't and doesn't. Something about public broadcasting being a cobbled mess of half-measures, constitutionally and irritatingly elitist, due to it's dependence on the like-minded wealthy for it's funding. I'd be happy if it sword off either federal funding or corporate and private funding, I'm not too bothered which.
I may change my mind in any direction at any time.
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11:45:31 AM,
Friday 10 June 2005
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The deleted closing sentence from a work email, where our hero takes the hot potato and flings it at his tormentors:
I feel I have been more than reasonable, and shall now stop being so.
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04:33:32 PM,
Wednesday 8 June 2005
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Apparently my company has a Resource Forest. I find this metaphor confusing and troubling.
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12:42:50 PM,
Tuesday 7 June 2005
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I'm getting Firefox pop-ups. Yay human ingenuity!
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10:21:31 AM,
Monday 6 June 2005
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I wonder if there's anything in the workplace standards that would prohibit a hello kitty desk fan.
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01:43:41 PM,
Friday 3 June 2005
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I have a short-sleeve purple button down shirt. I wear it when I want to feel efficient, because it reminds me of my old McDonalds uniform.
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12:59:04 PM,
Friday 3 June 2005
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Fine, I won't compress my emails. I'll just send massive data files over you. Are you happy now, server? (my standard trick of renaming files .notzip is no longer working).
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03:43:24 PM,
Wednesday 1 June 2005
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I was about to grouse, but then I looked out the window. I'm not sure what these trees are, Ash, maybe? but they've got very dark bark and lots of tiny compound leaves, and with the evening sun coming between the gaps between the buildings, backlighting the pale green leaves, well, it was enough to stop me grousing.
Back to a cubicle this fall.
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03:24:49 PM,
Wednesday 1 June 2005
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Terrible thought of the morning: One day, there will be Decaf Chocolate.
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09:46:18 AM,
Tuesday 31 May 2005
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I wish to purchase powdered cheese. How is this done?
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01:15:34 PM,
Monday 30 May 2005
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The Great Crash: 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith is an unexpectedly funny book. It's a short, well written description of what happened, very light on theory. The running gag is the phrase "the fundementals are sound" and the general cluelessness of economists. Also has some wonderful diversions, like the Bezzle: The amount of undiscovered embezzlement, which increases the psychic wealth of a nation, because two people both think they have the same money. It's reassuring to realize that the the reason I've never been clear on why the great depression happened is because no one is clear on it.
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12:43:28 PM,
Monday 30 May 2005
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Movies, and art in general, should be evaluated along two axis: Whether it was worth doing, and whether it was done well.
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10:13:37 AM,
Monday 30 May 2005
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