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martes, diciembre 31, 2002
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linkydink "In November, after months of preparation, Mr. Mathlouthi came out with Mecca-Cola. Borne aloft by Muslims in France desirous of boycotting American brands, to protest policies in the Middle East, the company he created delivered more than a million bottles by early December."
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linkydink what do y'all think about the clone baby/ies? frankly, i'd rather just buy some sperm. or adopt. the whole premature aging thing... haven't these people seen Jack? since i'm something of a conservative where scientific progress is concerned, i'm wary of the whole thing. how can people be so unconcerned with their babies' health and quality of life? selfish bastards.
lunes, diciembre 30, 2002
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linkydink wow - congratulations, jt! sorry about your computer, though. our linksys woes continue. evidently we're not alone.
jueves, diciembre 26, 2002
miércoles, diciembre 25, 2002
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linkydink :) Stay tuned, Kangaroo Felger- my agents will contact you shortly... Here are the details of my crappy problem, if anyone's interested.
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linkydink we have several of those here at the Felger household... what exactly do you need to do?
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linkydink Merry Christmas if you're into that sort of thing. Does anyone in Greenwich have a Macintosh with Firewire capability that I could use to emergency repair my laptop?
martes, diciembre 24, 2002
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linkydink "The Dialect Survey uses a series of questions, including rhyming word pairs and vocabulary words, to explore words and sounds in the English language. There are no right or wrong answers; by answering each question with what you really say and not what you think is "right", you can help contribute to an accurate picture of how English is used in your community."
domingo, diciembre 22, 2002
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linkydink "The strongest curses in both the Swedish and the Dutch languages refer to religious matters, but there is a fundamental difference between the two languages. In Swedish, you use the name of the Devil and of his home as the starting point for the development of curses, whereas in Dutch the name of God plays a similar role."
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linkydink Love/Sad opens in two-and-a-half weeks. It's going to be amazing. We need help!
viernes, diciembre 20, 2002
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linkydink "Having long been genuine admirers of the United States Postal Service (USPS), which gives amazingly reliable service especially compared with many other countries, our team of investigators decided to test the delivery limits of this immense system. We knew that an item, say, a saucepan, normally would be in a package because of USPS concerns of entanglement in their automated machinery. But what if the item were not wrapped? How patient are postal employees?? How honest? How sentimental? In short, how eccentric a behavior on the part of the sender would still result in successful mail delivery?"
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linkydink I have found Linksys wireless to be a royal pain in the ass, but their USB-phoneline network adapters have worked well for me, except that they don't support Macs at all...
jueves, diciembre 19, 2002
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linkydink "'Houses of the future' sold tickets at world's fairs, but they didn't affect home building. Can MIT's prefab smart house change the way we build and live?"
miércoles, diciembre 18, 2002
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linkydink "Guided rats controlled through implants in their brains could one day be used to search for landmines or buried victims of earthquakes, scientists say. An extraordinary experiment has seen researchers steering five rodents - so-called ratbots - through an obstacle course by remote control. "
martes, diciembre 17, 2002
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linkydink "It's spellbinding to watch people who don't know they're being observed, and I want to keep watching, but the camera, part of the instrument payload on an RQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle, moves on. The UAV is flying a routine mission from Tuzla, Bosnia, launched by the U.S. Air Force 15th Reconnaissance Squadron. This little caravan is obviously not what the Predator's masters are looking for."
lunes, diciembre 16, 2002
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linkydink I have been working on sound for love/sad, a play to go up on January 8 in NYC. I'm hoping to make a proper album-length soundtrack to it. I have just finished a 10-minute preview/promotional version of the soundtrack; you can download MP3s here. This includes updated versions of the music some of you have heard from the original "Loveliest And Saddest" soundtrack, as well as brand new material. Guitar, banjo, and co-compositional credit goes to the incredible Kabir Green.
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linkydink "I'm sitting there during "Star Trek: Nemesis," the 10th "Star Trek" movie, and I'm smiling like a good sport and trying to get with the dialogue about the isotronic Ruritronic signature from planet Kolarus III, or whatever the hell they were saying, maybe it was "positronic," and gradually it occurs to me that "Star Trek" is over for me. I've been looking at these stories for half a halftime, and, let's face it, they're out of gas..."Roger Ebert speaks the sad truth about Star Trek. :(
viernes, diciembre 13, 2002
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linkydink "'Free movement by the citizen is of course as dangerous to a tyrant as free expression of ideas or the right of assembly and it is therefore controlled in most countries in the interests of security. That is why riding boxcars carries extreme penalties in Communist lands. That is why the ticketing of people and the use of identification papers are routine matters under totalitarian regimes, yet abhorrent in the United States.' Aptheker v. Secretary of State, 378 U.S. 500, 519 (1964) (Douglas, J, concurring). The facts of this case are deceptively simple. Plaintiff John Gilmore, a U.S. citizen, was not allowed to board commercial aircraft at two airports because he refused to show identification ("ID") and refused to consent to a more intense security screening based on his refusal to show ID. He wishes to travel anonymously. Since then, he has not attempted any domestic travel by air, water, train, or intercity bus, because of the posted ID requirements, the above experience, and a previous experience being arrested at the San Francisco airport for refusing to show ID. At the heart of this case lie two complex questions: (1) Are domestic travelers presently required by law to show identification papers upon demand? And, if so, (2) Is that requirement constitutional?"
jueves, diciembre 12, 2002
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linkydink "A man has confessed to murdering and eating another man who allegedly volunteered to be killed, in a case that has shocked Germany."
miércoles, diciembre 11, 2002
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linkydink A company I'm doing database work for does marketing for The Week magazine. I stumbled across this in the "Gossip" section of the 12/8 issue: It's perfectly legitimate to flirt your way to the top, Today show host Katie Couric told teenage girls at the Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut. "If you have to use your feminine wiles once in a while," Couric said, "I say go for it." Couric confessed that she broke into the news business by flirting with a cameraman who then let her into a broadcast newsroom to meet the station's personel director.If only her cohost Matt Lauer had given the GHS Class of 1998 such helpful advice...
martes, diciembre 10, 2002
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linkydink The end result. Note the short pants, undersized jacket, bright orange undershirt, sketcher sneakers, and generally rumpled attire. Fight the power. Also note that a trick of the light makes it look a little like my dad's pants are on fire. Merry Christmas.
lunes, diciembre 09, 2002
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linkydink "Greenland's unusual summer slush was part of a record-breaking year of northern polar ice loss, reported by Dr Steffen and other scientists this weekend at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in San Francisco. According to scientists, surface melt on Greenland was the highest in recorded history - and extended to elevations previously untouched by melt - while the amount of Arctic sea ice also reached a record low."
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linkydink woah! your mother actually emails you guidelines? mine has, i think, mostly given up by now. she tries to wrangle us into decent clothes, but she has learned that compromise is the only way she can get us to even pretend to be happy in the damn thing. she let my brother wear vampire fangs in the picture one year. but then, i guess there are some things that email guidelines just can't change. like my hair, for instance. i'm amazed that your mother hasn't given up after all this time. it's amazing how long parents will fight for the appearance of normalcy, eh? do you ever wonder if you'll become your parents? i think i already am.
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linkydink In a gesture of pointless passive-aggression against my mother for often wanting to transfigure me into her trophy/artifact child, and in hopes that someone will find it amusing, I'd like to publish here the guidelines that she emailed me today for how to dress for our family Christmas photo: With your working in the city and job interviewing, I assume you have gotten yourself some nice clothes that would look great in a family photo. But for some guidance color and tone wise, pressed slacks which fit well (not too short, for example) with a navy or neutral colored pullover or turtleneck would look well with the tone of the photo. Or if you feel more like yourself with a pressed shirt with a print, it would integrate well if the print is relatively subtle rather than big and bold. Some nice looking shoes or boots would complete the picture.The boldface is hers, not mine.
domingo, diciembre 08, 2002
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linkydink "A totally new and highly controversial theory on the origin of life on earth, is set to cause a storm in the science world and has implications for the existence of life on other planets."
sábado, diciembre 07, 2002
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linkydink "I think the main reason for the first Gulf War was what’s called “credibility”: Saddam had defied orders; no one can get away with that. Ask any Mafia Don and you’ll get the explanation. There’s good reason to suppose that a negotiated withdrawal would have been possible, but that wouldn’t make the point; again, ask your favorite Don." -- Noam Chomsky interview on AlterNet
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linkydink i might like to get married sometime in the distant future. if i do, church and state can suck it. children is tricker. thanksgiving has been a time of family, and i have been acquiring a strong and useful sense of heritage. i have begun to unearth an ancestry full of mad inventors and musicians, teachers and freethinkers, drug addicts and manic depressives. ive often felt like my wilder proclivities were something of an abberation, given my relatively conventional-seeming parents. but i've recently begun to look at my quest to find something sacred in life as a continuation of my family's work, as opposed to a departure from it. this has been empowering. it's also given me a desire to see that heritage perpetuated. if neither i nor my brother had children, i would be sad, and my parents would be really sad. of course that's a much more abstract thing to think about than to actually have kids. i wouldnt want to do it alone, so if and when i'm in a relationship of sufficient dedication and love to support children, i'll give it some more thought.
miércoles, diciembre 04, 2002
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linkydink "The beginning of the end for the elite design professional came when the Desktop Publishing Revolution of the nineteen-eighties first gave the average inexperienced ignoramus power over the domain of print, giving rise to things like corporate newsletters printed entirely in Olde English majuscules and wedding invitations with enough mixed typefaces to pass as ransom demands. Next came the Desktop Video Revolution of the nineteen-nineties which put broadcast-quality expressive power in the hands of the regular user. As the reach of the average personal computer increased this wave of new, cheap video artists moved quickly from the technophiliac loner in his basement with a VideoToaster to the rows upon rows of gleaming, underpowered G4s that lace today's mid-range creative production houses. Now any fool can make TV. With the popularisation of the Internet the computer-using masses finally got their chance to become self-publishing content creators, breaking the final barrier between their imaginations and an audience potentially as wide as the web itself. This revolution (initially called The Information SuperHighway Revolution by idiots) was complete. Sensitive professional graphic designers who had killed themselves a decade earlier when the word "typeface" was replaced with "font" began spinning in their graves in disgruntled concert, knowing now that their trade had finally been irretrievably thrown to the dogs."
martes, diciembre 03, 2002
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linkydink "'The laws were broken—but only after people developed meaningful relationships,' Moore asserts in a fit of giggles."
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linkydink 1. do you intend you get/are you married? and if so, why, and what place do you feel the church and state have in your relationship? please discuss. 2. do you intend to/have you had children? and if so, why? what was the impetous behind your choice to have children/what makes you want them? achren wants to know. and so do i.
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linkydink I tried re-saving the settings and it still won't publish, and it's published on blogspot... I would post the url to the blog in general but I messed up the html so it's pretty ugly at the moment, and I have no desire to embarass myself with it. as for the miso, I like the "sweet tasting brown rice" and any of the barly misos, the light ones are usually more versatile, as the dark ones have a stronger flavor and are saltier. I think you can pay an extra few dollars to get the little cookbook, which is definently worth it, and you can usually substitute the misos they suggest with whichever kind you have on hand, I do it all the time. and as for the place to stay- I'll pass your thanks on to Tyler.
lunes, diciembre 02, 2002
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linkydink Well, blow me down! cmoore was right, all I had to do was re-save the settings to fix publishing. Bad blogger, no cookie for you.
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linkydink blue: is it a blogspot blog or is it published via FTP? my publishing problems can usually be solved by going into the Settings and clicking Save, then re-publishing. also, what did you say was the tastiest type of miso? i don't know whether to get dark or light, brown rice, chickpea, or barley. what do you suggest? and: thanks for hooking Angelie up with a place to stay in NM. i love that the blog has become a ride/accomodations board in addition to all of its other purposes.
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linkydink hey, I was wondering if anyone here could give me a hand with something. I keep another blog with my friends from school and I haven't been able to get it to publish for days. I've tried absolutely everything I can think of and it keeps giving me the same two error messages "Error 506:Unable to contact view generation service: http://127.0.0.1/framework/BloggerService (server:page)[more info]", and "Error 104:java.lang.NullPointerException (server:disco)" I can't get the blogger discussion pages to load, and I've tried every hint on the help pages, the rest of the bloggers have also tried to publish it but to no avail. I've changed the template several times, thinking it may have something to do with a few small and unsuccessful changes I tried to make to the HTML a while ago but nothing's worked. has anyone got any ideas? you can write me at kangarooblue@mac.com, thanks.
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