06 May 2002, 12:54 p.m.

Eric S. Raymond, relatively famous open-source software advocate, speaks to…

Eric S. Raymond, relatively famous open-source software advocate, speaks to the Cal Linux Users Group and other such people tonight at 6pm in Soda Hall (Wozniak Lounge, 4th floor). I may go. I can remember …

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06 May 2002, 12:45 p.m.

Today, Sydney Omarr says of Martha Stewart that she's "a…

Today, Sydney Omarr says of Martha Stewart that she's "a remarkable Leo; she has implanted the following thought in many: 'To do things right, it must be done the Martha Stewart way!'....She does things the …

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06 May 2002, 2:44 a.m.

I finished Twain's The Innocents Abroad last week. Now…

I finished Twain's The Innocents Abroad last week. Now I've finished Terry Pratchett's Small Gods (I started it Sunday evening) and begun a Philip K. Dick anthology. The Pratchett and Dick I received as gifts …

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05 May 2002, 10:19 a.m.

Last night's Prairie Home Companion featured a wonderful, euphoria-inducing Rhubarb…

Last night's Prairie Home Companion featured a wonderful, euphoria-inducing Rhubarb Pie sketch, which almost made up for an awful, superlatively tasteless song infusing gospel into a The-Day-The-World-Trade-Towers-Fell ballad. And I do mean "full of wonder" …

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05 May 2002, 10:15 a.m.

As at least two of you (viz., Leonard and Adam)…

As at least two of you (viz., Leonard and Adam) know, Leonard and Adam and I visited San Francisco's Exploratorium yesterday. I found myself comparing it favorably with Stockton's Children's Museum of Stockton (a more …

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05 May 2002, 10:03 a.m.

From Friday afternoon:"You should come to our party tomorrow night." "The…

From Friday afternoon:"You should come to our party tomorrow night." "The thing is, I might be cuddling." "Yes, cuddling takes precedence."

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04 May 2002, 8:23 a.m.

I am annoyed both at my own fundamental uncertainty about…

I am annoyed both at my own fundamental uncertainty about most things, and/but I am also annoyed at other people's certainty. Seth David Schoen sheds some light on the matter.

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03 May 2002, 22:04 p.m.

Some of the singing groups in Music today -- including…

Some of the singing groups in Music today -- including mine -- were so rhythm-challenged that we would have gratefully welcomed the intervention of a UN Timekeeping Force.

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03 May 2002, 16:09 p.m.

Hey Adam, thanks for the link to a scrumptious Washington…

Hey Adam, thanks for the link to a scrumptious Washington Post story on my Jon Stewart Liebowitz.

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03 May 2002, 13:01 p.m.

If you're tired of typing in www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sumanah, now you can…

If you're tired of typing in www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sumanah, now you can try www.brainwane.net, which redirects to the same place, for now. After I graduate and the OCF kicks me off, I'll have to get a hosting …

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