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Or possibly the other way around. Sofia Coppola is on Charlie Rose, and just watching the trailer to Lost in Translation again has me dying to meet Scarlett Johansson or possibly impregnate her. Just amazing. And now Sofia is talking about why she cast different people and she also first saw Scarlett in Manny and Lo, when she (Scarlett) was about 12, fell in love with her the same time I did. Have you rented that film yet? I told you to a week ago, didn't I? Please report back in the comments. Lost in Translation arrives here tomorrow. I better find a chance to see it this weekend. (Sorry about the interuption to Survivor. Just back from the gym, watching Charlie Rose while I made dinner. More on Survivor in a few minutes.)
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So..TSO picks me up Monday morning to we are just starting our long drive to our Annual Regional Meeting this year being hosted in lovely Ocean City, Maryland. Along our quest we pick up the Lord of Danbury and the...
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"The storm is coming, Isabel, it's hit North Carolina -- thank goodness, it doesn't appear to be a raging hurricane in the sense that it's causing catastrophic damage -- it's gonna wind its way around, it's gonna hit New York. But here's the thing about New York, uh, and a hurricane. After what we've been through, for the past, you know, two, three years, really, a hurricane? Uh. Bring it on, bitch! [Wild applause in the studio] You know what I'm saying? I'm not afraid of you! As a matter of fact, I would go so far as to say I hope the hurricane comes here and rains and winds as hard as it can, because it would help wash the anthrax off of everything. [...] So, come to New York for the anthrax. Stay for the hurricane." -- Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, September 18, 2003. (We're not really going to get hit by the hurricane. But there is some pretty impressive gusting wind tonight.)
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| 22:45:34 September 18, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Hippo Dignity |
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Mistakes of Vietnam repeated with Iraq: "The president of the United States decides to go to war against a nation led by a brutal dictator supported by one-party rule. That dictator has made war on his neighbors. The president decides this is a threat to the United States. In his campaign for president he gives no indication of wanting to go to war. In fact, he decries the overextension of American military might and says other nations must do more. However, unbeknownst to the American public, the president's own Pentagon advisers have already cooked up a plan to go to war. All they are looking for is an excuse. Based on faulty intelligence, cherry-picked information is fed to Congress and the American people. The president goes on national television to make the case for war, using as part of the rationale an incident that never happened. Congress buys the bait -- hook, line and sinker -- and passes a resolution giving the president the authority to use "all necessary means" to ...
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| 22:41:12 September 18, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: GranneWeb |
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So Lin needed a few extra inches on the caper hat. No problem. I took it with me to the...
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It is widely accepted that the Etruscan civilization was the most mighty in Italy prior to the rise of Rome. The Etruscans were recognized as a strong maritime power whose conquests lead to the establishment of colonies in Corsica, Elba,...
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| 22:10:42 September 18, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: bUGLY |
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<a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2003/09/19.html">Remember this</a> the next time someone compares software construction to building a house: "Well, what I've learned from my first large construction project is that this is hogwash. The building industry doesn't know how to do anything on schedule or on budget, either."
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Joshua Allen has an interesting post on the changing balance between development and testing resources, at least at Microsoft. While the general claim that the advent of managed code has made developers so much more productive that the testers are now overwhelmed is pretty significant, the really interesting quote is in the third paragraph: "there is always the possibility that the ever-increasing test expenditures will not coincide with a reduction in the number or severity of high-profile security and quality incidents". To me, that suggests that the skill set for testers is changing. Now I understand that it's typical for MS to hire more development oriented types as testers, but in every company I've worked for, testers tend not to have significant programming experience and are on the whole less technical than the programmers. So testers tend to concentrace on UI and HCI types of tasks and not so much on security analysis. I think that testing for security would require a ...
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Interface for cpu information
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| 21:25:44 September 18, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: RAA |
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Monkeeschat has moved again (for the last time) because people were pissed about getting onto dal.net. The java chat is also fixed! YAY Chat with the new, improved {cough} applet Oh yea, it's irc.blitzed.org, #monkeeschat and we're staying there unless...
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When my friend John read Austen for the first time, he read all her books in the order of their publication, but stopped before he got to Persuasion. When I asked him why, he said that once he'd read it, he would have read all of Austen, and that would just be unacceptable. I have been thinking about this since I picked up Neil Gaimain's Endless Nights, a collection of the first new comics he's done in the Sandman universe in close to a decade. Not that Gaiman is even fit to touch Austen's hem, mind you -- very few writers are -- but it's a strange thing to know that you've read everything there is to read of a story, and then to both have more, and know that more more isn't likely to be forthcoming for a long time, if at all. I promised myself a day to read all the stories if I got a project done on time, and I did, but somehow, I haven't quite managed to read the book yet. I think I will try one of the stories tonight, before I go to sleep -- when I would pick up the new issue of ...
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| 21:02:33 September 18, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Hippo Dignity |
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1. Who is your favorite singer/musician? Why? Slim Dusty. Who else is there? :-) 2. What one singer/musician can you not stand? Why? Pretty much anyone who claims to be a singer/musician but they can't sing / compose / play for peanuts. They have no sense of harmony, melody,...
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| 21:00:00 September 18, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: G'day Mate! |
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A big old oak tree just fell in the back yard. I can not really tell the extent of the...
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I managed to become a student today.One class in Oct. Probably 6 or 7 units in January.General educational goals until the summer, when I will(hopefully) have an idea where I want to take this.I feel good about myself right now. My plan is to keep this feeling.
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| 20:32:06 September 18, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: ILK |
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Das Pforzheimer Auktionshaus Peter Kiefer bietet in der kommenden Auktion 51 am 10./11. Oktober unter den Nummern 6639 ff. den schriftlichen und bildlichen Nachlass (oder wichtige Teile davon) des badischen Ingenieurs und Burgenforschers Julius Näher (geboren 1824 in Pforzheim, das Todesdatum hat das Auktionshaus nicht einmal für nötig gefunden zu ermitteln) an - der Online-Katalog enthält nicht die in der gedruckten Version S. 351 enthaltene Lebenskizze und auch nicht die Farbabbildungen der wunderbaren Zeichnungen Nähers, die nun zerfleddert werden. Da sind schöne Reisetagebücher und Skizzenbücher dabei, die ihren Platz unbedingt in einer öffentlichen Institution haben sollten. Ich finde es unbegreiflich, dass diese wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen bedeutsamen Dokumente nicht zusammengehalten werden konnten. Waren die Erben zu gierig oder die Institutionen zu desinteressiert? Ein Werk Nähers über Bahia ist im fernen Brasilien digitalisiert einsehbar (siehe http://log.netbib.de ), ...
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| 20:08:00 September 18, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Archivalia |
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The other day, I was thinking, "If it wasn't for the fucking wind, Wellington would without a doubt be the...
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| 19:34:50 September 18, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: poing |
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I got this information about an NYC moving company called US1 Vans: 'Just wanted to share with everybody that you should avoid using the moving company 'US 1 vans', they are terrible. We recently used them to move from NYC...
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The most critical issue concerning informed decision making, in my opinion, is that each individual voter is, in fact, informed. If an uniformed individual is allowed to pass on, via proxy, his or her vote to someone who they think is informed, the individual vote itself is still an uninformed vote (based upon is origin). It is only the uninformed individual who believes that their vote is in better hands with another individual who may or may not be better informed. Of all the so-called informed voters, how can an uninformed voter determine who might better informed than the others and to whom they may give their priviledged vote? The integrity and sanity of the voting system depends on an informed vote. And each individual, alone, can only determine how informed he or she is on any particular issue. The only way that decisions can be made concerning difficult specialty matters is to have whoever considers themseves to be informed to develop various propositions for the ...
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As I'm ranting about the movie Helen of Troy, I just realized that I should promptly write a review about it too. As stated in my last blog, I'm a big fan of Homer's Illiad, so this may account for my violent disapproval of the most recent retelling of the tale. They took a different spin on the story, which accounts for the way it was presented, but really by doing this they removed mystery, romance, and all things "epic", making it an excellent waste of millions of sandals. They modernized the story, taking out all references to the Greek Gods being actual powerful beings (and instead were mysterious nothings that people just talked about in some form of worship), and glorified the Trojans as a inherently "good" people while protraying the Greeks as violent and blood thirsty. Believe it or not, the Greeks weren't just mass brutality with a devastating naval force! *gasp* They were in fact, the founders/developers of our, yes, that's right, our society. Our education system, law ...
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I wrote a short story on my recent experiences with Visual Commuincator, that have made me switch from Powerpoint. Check it out at: http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/stories/2003/09/18/goodbyePowerpointHelloVisualCommunicator.html
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I missed posting about an opinion piece on IDG about comparing the SRS to to the Telecom local loop issue. I think it is a very good read and other than the comments about 'Domainz splitting in two' it has no major errors :-)
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I missed posting about an opinion piece on IDG about comparing the SRS to to the Telecom local loop issue. I think it is a very good read and other than the comments about 'Domainz splitting in two' it has no major errors :-)
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Don't forget, tomorrow Friday the 19th Cory the man with the cool dark rimmed glasses at the Futurist Salon. (No, I never worked in Marketing :-) We will do a round of introduction, share some future stories that you stumbled over in the last month. Everyone who was at the ACC2003 should have something surprising to share from that weekend. For me it was the meme change from Free Software to Open Source that Tim O'Reilly told. After the introduction Cory Doctorow will do a reading from his new short stories and talk about copyright. Details again: 7pm : Cory Doctorow who is the outreach coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an award winning science fiction writer (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, A Place So Foreign and Eight More), journalist and editor of the Boing Boing Blog will talk about copyright, scarcity, and spectrum, with lots of rhetorical flourishes... Just in time Cory's Sci-Fi collection is out. Haven't read them, besides the one that was previously ...
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I was sitting in Sam's office today like I usually do working on stuff when Auntie Rosina, the secretary comes...
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| 18:41:11 September 18, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Caleb |
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If you are an Anonymous fan, it's ready for memberships now!...
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she's not like me in the most shallow of ways. i'm not sure if this is a problem. she hums...
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Malibus most wanted rapper, Brad "B-Rad" Gluckman, maintains a hip-hop lifestyle that is seriously hindering his fathers bid for governor. When his dads campaign manager tries to neutralize the "problem" and teach him a lesson about what gangsta life is really like, B-Rad proves to the player-haters that hes for real and wins the affection of a business-savvy South Central hottie.
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Ah, crap. With ten minutes to go, I borked the server I was working on for the RHCE test this...
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Set in the 1970's, two young couples take a misguided tour onto the back roads of America in search of a local legend known as Dr. Satan. Lost and stranded, they are set upon by a bizarre family of psychotics. Murder, cannibalism and satanic rituals are just a few of the thousand horrors that await.
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