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For the good of the world…

Google 10^100

One more small voice in the chorus. Google is apparently doing OK and has some money to invest in world-changing ideas. Their project 10 to the 100th is the opportunity for you to submit those world-changing ideas. Submit by Oct … Continue reading

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My War On Concentration

When it comes to authors I respect/am rabidly in awe of, Neal Stephenson pretty much tops the list. He’s brilliant, he’s verbose, he’s funny, he’s a nerd. I can stop fawning now. So much envy. Based on some excerpts from … Continue reading

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They want to make her go…

We barely knew ye. Time to get out.

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Flatland

This is fairly freakish… although it does sort of resemble my office at the moment. I like how the web page describes it as only a ‘semi-extreme’ performance. I guess a fully extreme performance would have to involve Kris Angel. … Continue reading

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Blogger James Kim + Family Missing

update Ends with a combo of triumph and sorrow. My thoughts go out to his family, and my good friend Mark who counted James as a friend since college. – This is all over the place, but in the interest … Continue reading

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Robert Altman takes a look at his life, dies

The passing of a great man, with a greatness defined equally by his failures and triumphs. I’ll choose to recall him at his cine-intellectual apex when during a certain interview he revealed the “ultimate irony” of 1992′s The Player: “The … Continue reading

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Bruno Kirby packs it in at 57

A damned shame to see a great go so young. He did it his way. Also a shame that the obit fails to mention BK’s bit in This is Spinal Tap, undoubtedly his greatest role.

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[mac book pro gen 1 engineering] Striking While the Area to the Left of the Keyboard/Trackpad is Hot.

I’ve owned a number of first-generation Apple products in 21 years, and plan to own many more in years to come. that’s how i roll. in other words, i am extremely reckless and stupid when it comes to that sort … Continue reading

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glacial pace (ii)

Our honeymoon in Alaska, Segment II: Plane to bus… Riding on the bus from Seattle/Tacoma airport to Dock 66 downtown, where our mighty cruiser, the Eurasian Cruise Lines’ flagship Mercury–class motor vessel, the M/V Gigantic, builds steam to strain the … Continue reading

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glacier chase (i)

Glaciers are frozen rivers, apparently. I didn’t know that until I was rowing a canoe up to one named “Davidson” last week, and our tour guide, a peppy thirty-something semi-leatherwoman who can do something about it now-if-she-hurries, named S-, told … Continue reading

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