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An Electricity in the Air
Cd Mix of the Month

March's CD Mix of the Month

My contribution to the March CD Mix of the Month Club was An Electricity in the Air.

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The Joy of Auto-Googling

One runs across the most interesting things when one gives in to the temptation of Googling oneself. There's the listing in the Library of Congress's online archive: http://lcweb4.loc.gov/911/catalog/1805.html There's the Rutgers class in "Science Fiction, Technology,

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Dog Switch

Dog Switch

We took Ella to a new groomer yesterday, where we traded the puppy in for an adult Wheaten terrier:

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Spamalot—not!

I was contacted yesterday by David Gallagher, a New York Times business editor, about a story he was doing on how a security lapse at the http://www.montypythonsspamalot.com site led to many names, postal addresses, and email addresses of subscribers being exposed online, including his. He wanted to

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Hail, Fellow, Well Met

The Gates are gone, but I have a few more pictures to share. A week and a half ago a group of us met (or attempted to meet) at the Met's rooftop garden to view The Gates from above. The view was not nearly as spectacular as we&

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Inspirational Email of the Week

Yo, dude, you're the reason why I care. You know most people do something productive with their free time rather than tare down harmless beliefs. Though this email wont change your mind on the circumstance, you should probably state what you believe before knocking others. Or have you

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Words Cannot Express
Cd Mix of the Month

February's CD Mixes of the Month

My contribution to the February CD Mix of the Month Club was Words Cannot Express, with Year of the Rooster generously thrown in as a Chinese New Year bonus. [Ed. note (2025): In light of certain disquieting legal developments, I've replaced the Bill Cosby track in the Year

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How Do You Catch a Unique Blogger?

Unique up on him, of course. Which brings me to yet another meme, caught this time from ❦readwrite: Ten Things I've Done That Most of You Probably Haven't 1. Argued with kindergarten teacher about nature of God. 2. Plea-bargained way out of hijacking charge. 3.

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The Dreaded "Where I've Lived" Meme

Via ❦pnh: 1. Los Angeles, CA  1967-1973 2. Grantsville, UT  1973-1974 3. Liberty, UT  1974 4. Bountiful, UT  1974-1978 5. Kaysville, UT  1978-1985 6. East Lansing, MI  1985 7. Kaysville, UT  1985-1986 8. Provo, UT  1986 9. Brooks, AB  1986 10. Calgary, AB  1986-1987

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SWTD™ Episode I

So What's The Deal™ with people who board a crowded descending elevator at the fourth floor and then get off at the third floor? I haven't noticed any serial killers lurking in the stairwell lately, so I'm frankly puzzled.

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Hey, Anyone Know Some Good

Hey, anyone know some good cheap Windows software for converting AVI files to MPEGs?

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Saffron River

So █████, Ella, and I went to Central Park Saturday morning with Barbara Lynn, ❦bobhowe, ❦steelbrassnwood, and Christopher to see the unraveling of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates. In a word, it was spectacular. But I'll let our pictures do the talking.

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