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Entries from September 2003

Reasons to Hate DC

September 29th, 2003 · 3 Comments

If this is true, I can’t decide whom to be the most disgusted by: the Administration, the Dems, or the press. Why isn’t someone rotting in jail? And why is the real story buried at the bottom of this article?
washingtonpost.com
Bush Aides Say They’ll Cooperate With Probe Into Intelligence Leak

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Tags: General

Black Sabbath! Cigarettes!

September 28th, 2003 · 2 Comments

Black Sabbath! Cigarettes! Black Sabbath! Cigarettes!!!

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Tags: Quotes

Good Girl!

September 23rd, 2003 ·

This morning I was feeling lazy, so I opened the door to let Facebiter out to do her business in the front yard.
She bolted through the door, only to stop with that excited-tail-swishing-tongue-hanging-out-eyes-open-wide doggy excitement posture at the top of the porch stairs. She looked out into the yard, looked at me, [...]

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Tags: Pets

TG Reunites

September 19th, 2003 · 2 Comments

TG Reunion and special flayed weeper special

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Tags: Music

Andy Goldsworthy

September 19th, 2003 · 22 Comments

Kick ass!

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Tags: Art

The Return Of Porky

September 19th, 2003 ·

Another bandwidth thief detected! Time to play!

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Tags: Housekeeping

Postcards from Alternate Universe

September 18th, 2003 · 5 Comments

Some people like government and, sometimes, governments like people…

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Tags: Portland

Magnificent Shirt Day on MARTA

September 18th, 2003 ·

Today was magnificent shirt day on the MARTA. There was the dapper Caribbean cat wearing the black beret and the most stunning Guayabera I’ve ever witnessed: light brown, with darker brown triangles angling out from the center buttons with black squares surrounding those and a definite “3D” effect on the whole setup. The [...]

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Tags: Atlanta

West Coast Weather

September 16th, 2003 · 1 Comment

Holding back in the west coast weather
broken heart and a brand new sweater
telling lies—well, it never felt better than that
retread tires and a shiny new quarter
drive all night to the California border
my lucky day—well, it never felt shorter than that
Falling down in the west coast weather
I saw your face when you read that letter
I saw [...]

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Tags: Nostalgia

That Kind of Day

September 16th, 2003 ·

You know it’s going to be “one of those” when you arrive at work, get in the elevator, push the floor and arrive, after many, many stops on other floors, at a totally unrecognizable location. Eventually, if you’re capable, you’ll figure out that you pushed the wrong floor, but you don’t know which one [...]

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Tags: Life

Interconnectedness Defines Danger XP

September 15th, 2003 ·

Does it seem as insane to you as it does to me that I have had to go to Microsoft’s web site and update my productivity software for security reasons?

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Tags: Geek

Commandante Stone

September 15th, 2003 · 5 Comments

Thoughts on movies, Oliver Stone, and… Cuba?

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Tags: Movies

Defining a System from Within The System?

September 12th, 2003 · 3 Comments

Paul Ford’s essay on the Processing language and, more directly, the very nature of web sites, has blown me away.
I’ve been out of the “web development” world for a while now and am more of an “infrastructure guy.” But I always try to keep relatively current with the “gui” scene and what’s happening in [...]

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Tags: Geek

What I Would Do

September 10th, 2003 · 1 Comment

Here is what I would do, if I lived in New York City, to commemorate the anniversary of Those People Flying Those Planes into Those Buildings:
Maka a papier mache jetliner, walk with it to That Place, and throw it in That Hole in The Ground.

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Tags: New York

Showin’ The Love

September 10th, 2003 · 1 Comment

I’ve made the #3 slot on the “Luigi’s Top Ten Fans list. That being said, I might bail on the upcoming Luigi show at Smith’s Olde Bar to see Steely Dan instead.
I mean, come on! It’s Steely Fucking Dan.

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Tags: Music