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Description: buddhist on fire
Last Update: 06:49:32 03/03/2006
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First Fetched: 00:16:14 01/31/2004
Last Updated: 06:49:32 03/03/2006
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| 22:53:00 August 15, 2005, Monday (PDT) |
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| 18:56:00 August 7, 2005, Sunday (PDT) |
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| 20:04:00 July 6, 2005, Wednesday (PDT) |
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| 22:08:00 June 10, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
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| 08:46:00 June 8, 2005, Wednesday (PDT) |
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| 06:29:00 June 3, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
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| 23:07:00 May 27, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
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| 21:09:00 April 16, 2005, Saturday (PDT) |
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| 19:15:00 April 15, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
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| 03:43:00 April 11, 2005, Monday (PDT) |
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| 21:50:00 April 10, 2005, Sunday (PDT) |
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| 20:52:00 April 10, 2005, Sunday (PDT) |
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| 22:15:00 April 8, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
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| 19:18:00 April 8, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
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| 18:53:00 April 8, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
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| 22:35:00 April 4, 2005, Monday (PDT) |
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Past several months been getting a lot of spam in the comments of my site. Kept searching on google for something to fix it but couldn’t figure out the right search terms. Getting pretty bad past couple days —damn spambots hitting my site every couple hours. Got tired of erasing their comments (links to porn sites.) I don’t know if I finally came up with a search term that worked or if comments spam was such a problems for others that they wrote some software to deal with it. Guess it was both. I had been looking for some kind of “drop in” software I could adapt which implements that thing you see when you sign up for accounts or access some feature that people don’t want bots accessing (see the whois feature on godaddy.com to see what I mean. (try the whois feature on godaddy.com to see what I mean.) The thing where you have to enter some slightly obscured numbers and letters in order to continue. Anyway, so now I know, this is called “captcha” and there are a couple of plugins ...
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| 12:15:00 January 14, 2005, Friday (PST) |
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Simon Schaffer speaking about the development and marketing of the electric light bulb (from the BBC documentary “Light Fantastic -The Stuff of Light”): “Perhaps the most important problem the Edison system faced was that you only need to turn the lights on at night. And that meant that electric light was only going to be used for a very limited part of each 24 hours. Now you can’t easily store electric power. It’s really inefficient and costly only to run an electric system for a very limited period of the night.” “The answer was to persuade a skeptical public to buy more and more devices which ran on electricity. That would make sure that they were customers of the electric company on a 24/7 basis. Edison’s revolutionary insight was that to sell electricity he needed to sell a lifestyle.” “No stone was left unturned to convince a skeptical public that electric lighting was the new future. Edison’s campaign to market electricity and the electric light bulb really set the tone for ...
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| 12:47:00 December 18, 2004, Saturday (PST) |
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I was listening to the commentary track of the American release of the Japanese horror film “Ju-On” and Sam Raimi’s comments about the difference between Japanese and American horror films struck me. He pretty much hits the nail on the head. I think his observation also works to describe the difference between American and Japanese cinema in general: “For me the big difference between the Japanese horror movement that’s taking place now in the late 90’s and in the early 2000’s is there’s a much more subtle approach. I think they treat the audience with a lot more intelligence than American filmmakers do. They know they’ve seen these movies, they know they don’t have to hit them over the head, that sometimes a creepy moment is so much more valuable than just a scare. It can get under your skin and really freak you out in a way that just a jolt can’t.” “I think that’s the big difference —the Japanese recognition of subtlety. Their ability to create subtle moments in the suspense and ...
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| 23:12:00 December 13, 2004, Monday (PST) |
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Finished this Henry Miller book today: “Opus Pistorum”. Basically a straight porn book that he wrote for some collectors in hollywood in the early 40’s. Hard to read (at least, hard to read straight thru) and it did get boring —it’s just a collection of scenes of one perverse type or another. But fairly amusing and some of it was stimulating. No… I’m not going to say which parts… The best parts were in-between the porn bits: “…something in a woman’s make-up that makes them a fuck of a lot more interested in other women than you think they ought to be…” “…All he wants is somebody to go to bed with him and talk Spanish in her sleep…” “…after a few months here all Americans begin to talk that way. There’s not one in Paris who doesn’t pretend to know the United States as completely as his own face….” “…we live in a land of ghosts. The world is half dead before it’s born. People straddle their lives with one foot in the grave and the other still sticking in the womb… they never grow up ...
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| 00:43:00 November 2, 2004, Tuesday (PST) |
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I keep having this same conversation over and over with several of my friends. The one where they’re trying to convince me of the magic of the big screen (as if it was something I didn’t know about…) Usually with Anthony, but most recently with Genise —telling me that watching Kurosawa’s “Ran” on a television or a computer monitor was a big waste. Some movies are just meant for the big screen… blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I know what I’m missing alright —all the assholes in the audience. The ones that bring their babies, the ones that answer their cell phones (or worse, they place a call during the movie.) The geezers in trench coats. The people that think they’re so cute they need to let everybody in the fucking theatre know what they think by yelling at the screen. Laser pointers. The asshole next to me noisily eating nachos that smell like gym socks. Several years ago (back before I more or less gave up going to theatres) I went to see Almodovar’s “Kika”. Anyway, my friends didn’t ...
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| 00:31:00 September 29, 2004, Wednesday (PDT) |
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I had wanted to read this book before seeing the movie. Didn’t work out that way but as it turns out they were both really worthwhile. In spite of knowing pretty much what happens both film and book were still able to work magic. A true story about a couple guys doing a “first ascent” of a knarly mountain in the Andes. While climbing down the author breaks his leg —basically a death sentence. Rather than leave him on the mountain, his climbing partner lowers him down as a storm rages. Each time he does it he’s not tied down to anything —just sitting in a “snow seat” they’ve carved out. They’ve almost made it down when he lowers him over a cliff. He can neither pull him back up, nor climb down to him. Losing his strength and with the snow seat crumbling beneath him, he pulls out a knife and cuts the rope. Here’s a bit from early in the book where the author explains his anxiety about camping overnight on the side of a mountain: “…There was no possibility of reaching the top that ...
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| 23:37:00 September 23, 2004, Thursday (PDT) |
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A few months since I’ve seen this and I still find myself thinking about it. Been wanting to write about it but really feel at a loss. How to describe it? The dilemma reminds me of an interview with Cocteau Twins. When asked what the deal was with their music they said (something like): “hey, we’re musicians, if we could say it with words we would be writers instead!” The film captured for me a feeling I frequently have. One that’s hard to describe, but let’s see… a feeling of melancoly upon meeting people. Sometimes when I meet people I have the sense that there is some spiritual connection that we were fated to meet—yeah, I know this sounds corny—but inevitably no matter how close you get to someone each of us is still fundamentally alone. Make any sense? Hmm… maybe it’s easier to talk about what happens in this movie than to say what it was about: An obsessive compulsive neat freak librarian stands on a pile of books. A noose around his neck. In his hand a note: “This is ...
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| 04:22:00 September 18, 2004, Saturday (PDT) |
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Taken to studying Python past couple of days. Figure it’s like any other language. I’ll immerse myself in it and not come up for air till I figure it out. Did some interesting experiments with dns too. And they worked… So now bind is running on my box. What good is that without a static ip address? That’s what I thought too, heh. Maybe I’ll write about it later. When I finished working thru that set of challenges I got this big smile on my face, it’s there now as well. Been meaning to mention the new color schemes for the site. As if nobody had noticed. Took a whole day, that. Used to be when I would do a color scheme for a web site I went and cribbed it somewhere else. This is the first time I haven’t done that. I’m quite happy with the results. Used the “scientific method” this time. Went off and studied color theory —what I could find to read about it on the web. And then went about creating an entire scheme for each of the various sections of the site. I will be switching them ...
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| 02:49:00 September 13, 2004, Monday (PDT) |
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Couple weeks back I switched my email setup over to the new web server. I kinda liked the idea of having a separate email server —not keeping all my eggs in one basket, and like that. But then my chess filter thing wouldn’t work. Anthony was giving me shit about the chess filter, saying nobody cares about seeing my last chess game on my web site. As if I didn’t know that already, ha! It was a learning exercise. An experiment in generating content automatically. Anyway, I just got it working again. Bunch of stuff was broken. The path in my .procmailrc wasn’t allowing the recipe to see stuff like cat and sed. And the recipe had some carriage returns in it. All that stuff needs to be on one line. The biggest problem I had though was I had left fetchmail running on the old server. No wonder fetchmail on the new box wasn’t collecting anything from my pop mail accounts —the old server was grabbing the emails before the new one could. Heh. As M. Emmet Walsh tells Dan Hedeya in “Blood ...
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| 21:08:00 August 26, 2004, Thursday (PDT) |
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A couple choice quotes from Steve Jobs speaking in “Triumph of The Nerds: Great Artists Steal”: “Most people don’t remember but until the Mac, Microsoft was not in the applications business. It was dominated by Lotus. And Microsoft took a big gamble to write for the Mac.” “The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste, and what that means is—I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way—in the sense that, they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their product. And you say: ‘why is that important’, well you know proportionally spaced fonts come from typesetting and beautiful books, that’s where one gets the idea. If it weren’t for the Mac, they would never have that in their products. So, I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success, no problem with their success. They’ve earned their success—for the most part—I have a problem with that they really just make third rate products.” As Ali ...
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| 02:07:00 August 24, 2004, Tuesday (PDT) |
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Recently I was re-watching Cringely’s: “Triumph of the Nerds: Great Artists Steal” —part three of a documentary about the rise of the personal computer. Something Bob said bugged me, and it’s been nagging me since. Here’s the quote (referring to the difference between GUI and command line interfaces): “Pictures rather than words, making the pc easy and intuitive.” It seems to be commonly accepted that the reason graphical user interfaces have been successful is because they are more “intuitive” (whatever that means.) The truth is, it’s not that graphics are more intuitive than words, it’s that the gui by it’s nature has a more limited command set, thus making it easier to learn… But don’t take my word for it, here’s what user interface guru Alan Cooper says in his book “About Face: The Essentials Of User Interface Design”: “The first commercially successful implementation of the PARC GUI was the Apple Macintosh, with it’s desktop, wastebasket, overlapping sheets of paper and file ...
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| 00:33:00 August 23, 2004, Monday (PDT) |
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Finally shit-canned the irc chatroom I had been running for a couple of years. It was amusing and provided some learning experience. But got to be a drag. Occasionally someone new would login using a real client and hang out for a while. Mostly though people stopped by using the chat interface. This got really annoying. People would click on the chatroom link on my web site and since it’s a web site (after all) expect the chat part to happen in “web time”. People have a tendency to be very impatient when using the web. This doesn’t really work well on IRC. Anyway, I ended up feeling like a monkey in a box —every now and then someone would stop to bang on my bars. Never sticking around long enough for a reply. One way conversations are not that exciting for me (or you, for that matter.) The average visit would be a couple of minutes at most, I would talk to people about it later and they would say stuff like: “I tried your chatroom but you’re never around”, etc. I appreciate my ...
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| 02:50:00 August 22, 2004, Sunday (PDT) |
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All I want is sleep. Laying in bed almost drifting off. Keep hearing what sounds like my neighbor opening and closing a sliding closet door. But no. Thunder and getting closer. Then in spite of being so damn restless, I’m almost asleep and BAM —right over the house. I almost shit my bed. Pretty spectacular. The power went on and off several times, Could have swore I saw sparks coming from my computer gear. Thought for sure my stuff was fried. Went outside to admire the storm. Raining hard, but it’s already moving on. Back outside a bit, then try and sleep. Where’s my cocoa dammit?
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| 03:32:00 August 21, 2004, Saturday (PDT) |
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I got this sugarfree lemon meringue pie yesterday. Wallmart… in the day old baked goods section. I like getting stuff out of the day old thing. You never know what’s gonna be there, so like the food finds you and it’s like a surprise, and like super cheap. So last night I couldn’t sleep because I was farting so much. Like once a minute —big ones too, my stomach had sharp pains because I had so much gas. Reminded me of the time I went to spend a romantic weekend with a girl friend at some cabin in the woods. Shopping in the country store we found these sugarfree gummi bears and bought several pounds. Too late we looked at the warning label: “caution, can cause severe gas.” Oh man, we were both farting so bad she had to sit on one end of the room while I sat on the other. Not just your regular farts either. Nasty smelly ones. A nightmare. So I look on the top of the pie container this morning and it’s got the same stuff in it that those gummi bears had. Nasty, nasty, nasty. My butt ...
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| 16:18:00 August 19, 2004, Thursday (PDT) |
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