2011 Midyear Review of the New Year Resolutions

The memorable Top Five sequence of events have been:

1. found a loyal, reliable friend here in Chicago -- with the same birthday!
2. kicked a loafer "friend" off my couch and fixed everything he broke!
3. upset a friend who wanted more ... feelings of single-syndrome crept back in
4. managed to tango ( Read more... )

Normalcy is the soul of banality, so do something random. :)

LMAO.  Serious; should bring tears to the eyes of a neo-Deutsch-Hillary fan.  Matt finds the most awesome parodies.

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In other media news: Jefferson Friedman finally sent his supersecret music.  ahhh. 

"People die wearing underpants, therefore we should ban underpants."

Made me laugh for like a minute.  Dunno why; probably the context:  http://www.thetruth.com

She's good.

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So I've been looking into buying a sound system and am very hyped about it all but have bumped into a few hurdles.  The hurdles stem from being an audio n00b so I'm hoping there's some audiophile out there reading this and will have some recommendations.

Basically I'm looking to play my awesome minimalistic music (aka. heretical classical stuff) out ( Read more... )

Often it worries me that people want to actualize not merely unlimited choice -- which has always existed -- but a kind of transcendental choice that defecates on reality.  It worries me because I wonder what these games are "freeing" the player from, and whether that escape from a lack of choice ever actually occurs.  My personal opinion is that ( Read more... )

Godz I 'luv you guys!  You always make me think.  This time it was
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This is the most awesomest command eva!

% true

eh? ... omg did it really really ...

% true --help
Usage: true [ignored command line arguments]

HAH!!  Somehow the sheer simplicity, aka. uber-minimalism, of someone building this into bash and csh made my day.  My nephews didn't get it ... *shrug*  It's silly, I know, but still.  OK, so I'm easily amused ( Read more... )

Invasion of the servers!   (brought to you by I - B - M: "take control")

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