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Today is Memorial day and I’ve been on vacation since Thursday. That means I stayed away from my computer most of the time and spent most of the days at the pool. The condo had a big Memorial Day party yesterday. We had so much food left over we had another one today.
At yesterday’s party [...]

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I’ve been using my 15″ PowerBook for more than a day now and I’m very happy with it. The large screen is a lot more pleasant to work with than the 12″ screen. The battery life seems about the same as my old 12″, although I haven’t fully re-calibrated the battery yet. I find that [...]

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I now have my new 15″ PowerBook G4. I didn’t go too far from home all day so I wouldn’t miss UPS, but they finally came after 5PM.
The screen is gorgeous and it’s noticeably faster than my old 12″. I notice that it runs a lot cooler than the 12″. I’m still not used to [...]

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After 20 years together, Phish has announced that they’re finished. In a note on their website, written by lead singer Trey Anastasio, he writes that they “don’t want to become caricatures of [themselves], or worse yet, a nostalgia act.” It was just a few years ago, in an effort to stave off a [...]

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The fundies want to start their own nation by taking over a state and seceding. Let them have it, if they agree to leave the rest of us alone to live our lives as we wish without their interference.

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I just ordered my new PowerBook G4: a 15″ 1.5 GHz with 80G internal, SuperDrive, and 512M RAM. I’ve been getting annoyed with the 12″ PowerBooks sluggish performance and I found that PowerMax would give me $875 for this one as a trade-in. I’m afraid if I waited much longer, I wouldn’t be able to [...]

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In 2002, I wrote this entry when I was depressed and unhappy with the direction of my life. I felt like I needed a change of scenery and a new career. An article in Kuro5hin about working in Korea caught my eye and I toyed with the idea as a possible way out of the [...]

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I usually don’t like Howard Stern, but he has a great page of links opposing Bush.

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I went to the Meet’n’Geek event at MacCenter today. They had a few virtual book signings via iChat AV. I bought bought Wil Wheaton’s “Dancing Barefoot” and The Joy Of Tech, which I had signed by Nitrozac & Snaggy, who were chatting from Vancouver. They signed it on a Wacom pad which was sent [...]

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I just bought the South Beach Diet book. I plan to start the first phase after Memorial Day. For the last few months I’ve been working out at the gym at least 3-4 times a week and everyone is already starting to notice. I’ve lost about 8 pounds with exercise alone and I’d like to [...]

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Since it’s now clear that the Republican Party has been completely taken over by the religious right and wants nothing to do with the LCR, it’s time to break away.
The Republican party isn’t the only conservative party. There’s also the Libertarian Party. The LP is truly dedicated to the core principles of smaller government and [...]

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Woman Arrested Carrying 266 Dead Parrots
They’re just resting

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Good news. Arrested Development is one of my favorite shows and one of the few that I actually take time to watch. It’s intelligent, sharp, and funny - a very rare combination. It doesn’t use a laugh track and it never goes for a cheap laugh.

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In a press release announcing that the Dell DJ is now supported on desktop Linux machines, Lindows CEO Michael Robertson noted that Apple had declined to allow the iPod to work on the operating system. “We talked with Apple Computer about supporting the iPod but they want to keep that a closed system,” said Robertson. [...]

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Since yesterday I’ve been using Camino 0.8b as my default browser. I find it much faster than Safari and it never goes into a spinning beachball for several seconds as Safari often does when I open a page.

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I discovered Cameron Clapp’s site via Boing Boing. Cameron became a triple amputee at age 15 in a train accident. Despite that, he became a champion athlete in several sports with the aid of his prosthetic arm and legs.

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I’ve been trying a new weblog editor and had it misconfigured so comments & trackbacks weren’t enabled. I’ve fixed it.
I made some changes to the design to prepare for possibly switching to different software. I have also stopped updating my politics weblog, since the software I’m considering will only support a single weblog. I will [...]

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Nice article in the NY Times about Wilton Manors.

By the mid-1990’s, this small, once comfortably middle-class city just north of downtown Fort Lauderdale had its share of woes. Crime, drugs and prostitution blighted various neighborhoods. The local Piggly Wiggly supermarket needed security guards before it shut down completely.
Then in 1997 George Kessinger converted a boarded-up [...]

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There’s a step backwards. As happy couples were getting married in Massachusetts today, Bush renewed his call for the constitutional hate amendment.

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Mazel Tov to Marcia Hams and Susan Shepherd, together for 27 years, the first same sex couple as well as all of the others married in Massachusetts under the new law. Visit the wedding album at HRC to see the happy couples.
This is a very hopeful sign, and maybe it will spread to other [...]

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