Posts from April, 2003
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Apr1Boy in tha Hood
New signs seen in and around the Bouldin Creek neighborhood: “No Event Parking in Neighborhood.” I’m not sure who is distributing them or the specific events they’re targeting. Auditorium Shores festivals? City-wide Garage Sales at Palmer? Or are residents frustrated with folks choking our streets during First Thursdays? Sometimes I think we’re trying to have [...]
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Apr2Revolution and stuff
Albert Camus once argued that revolutions begin with a demand for justice, but always end in bloodshed. He viewed the Soviet Union as a police state that masqueraded “as an instrument of liberation and a school for future happiness.” Fifty years later, North Korea has perfected this deceit. Although the numbers of dead under Kim [...]
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Apr1Revolution and stuff
Albert Camus once argued that revolutions begin with a demand for justice, but always end in bloodshed. He viewed the Soviet Union as a police state that masqueraded “as an instrument of liberation and a school for future happiness.” Fifty years later, North Korea has perfected this deceit. Although the numbers of dead under Kim [...]
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Apr1Sympathy for the Saints
I think my favorite thing about Kazaa is that if a random, forgotten song finds it way into a dream of mine, I can hunt it down in the morning. Today I woke up with beats on the brain. The one part of the dream that I remember is that I was slushing through snow [...]
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Apr4Look ma, no hands!
I just installed Dragon voice recognition software. Right now, I’m dictating into microphone and text is filling up a Web text box. In I’m not a going to edit this entry at all. What you are reading is what I have dictated. This is sweet exclamation! So far, so good. But the microphone is a [...]
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