14 Jun 2002, 0:23 a.m.

Just for the benefit of those of you finding my…

Just for the benefit of those of you finding my site through search engines: Ursula K. Le Guin did not write "Harrison Bergeron" -- Kurt Vonnegut did. Also, I can't help you find Sydney Omarr's …

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13 Jun 2002, 23:20 p.m.

Last night, I hung out with Zack, and tonight I…

Last night, I hung out with Zack, and tonight I hung out with Adam. Very necessary, these visits. I'd go insane if all my social contact were school and home and a bit of Leonard. …

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13 Jun 2002, 13:18 p.m.

Ruthie is the Seventh Heaven equivalent of St. Alia of the…

Ruthie is the Seventh Heaven equivalent of St. Alia of the Knife, Paul Atreides's younger sister, in Frank Herbert's Dune. If anyone else in the entire world has ever made that comparison before, I'd really …

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13 Jun 2002, 8:57 a.m.

I wanna be a columnist like Jon Carroll, because he can…

I wanna be a columnist like Jon Carroll, because he can rationalize like so: I could, of course, do something. I could take steps. I could make a plan and follow it. Or I could …

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13 Jun 2002, 8:43 a.m.

According to Seth, People who don't mind living in Washington (and…

According to Seth, People who don't mind living in Washington (and travel all over the world) have a fantastic opportunity to get a free software job with the Science and Human Rights project at the …

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12 Jun 2002, 23:58 p.m.

There is a coffeeshop on Shattuck near Alcatraz named "Jump'in…

There is a coffeeshop on Shattuck near Alcatraz named "Jump'in Java". They knew there was an apostrophe somewhere, but misplaced it. Sort of cheery, really. Still looking for a place to live and a job. …

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12 Jun 2002, 9:30 a.m.

Last night I dreamt, among other things, that I was…

Last night I dreamt, among other things, that I was a sub-intern-level staffer at Slate, that I was treated badly by the other staff, that Michael Kinsley was a stumbling drunk who couldn't keep his …

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12 Jun 2002, 0:57 a.m.

From my recording session with Leonard on Frog/Antifrog: "That failed…

From my recording session with Leonard on Frog/Antifrog: "That failed worse than the NEP."

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12 Jun 2002, 0:39 a.m.

Douglas Coupland's Microserfs is very, very good. I found…

Douglas Coupland's Microserfs is very, very good. I found myself returning to it after I'd finished, locating plot twists and insights. Its style reminds me of weblogs, since it's in diary-to-unspecified-audience form, and it's inspiringly …

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12 Jun 2002, 0:19 a.m.

Today I noticed that, while marking the date in a…

Today I noticed that, while marking the date in a log, I had typed "3003" instead of "2002." I also wrote my first shell script, to further automate my analysis of server logs. Yay! What's …

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