Posts from 2004
January
New Photographs...and thinking about movies | January 1
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Travelogue
Movies
Michael_keaton
Will_smith
Scifi
Lunch should be this...and 03 music thoughts | January 4
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Personal
Music
General
Outkast
Prince
Coldplay
The Slider | January 12
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Music
Personal
Travel
Australia
Onion-esque | January 15
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Space
Science
Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes | January 15
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Personal
Recollections
Ladytron
Travel
I can surf | January 19
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Travelogue
Surfing
Bondi
Trivia
Slang
Australia
His Dark Materials | January 21
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Entertainment
Hesse’s Inspiration for those of us who wander | January 22
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Personal
Hesse
Rootlessness
I could never fall from grace, I’m far too clever | January 26
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Personal
Australia
Travelogue
February
Back in San Jose | February 1
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Personal
Blog Silent | February 9
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Personal
The Social Bobcat is one of the funniest humans ever | February 12
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Personal
Continued validation of the Steve Martin Smirk Theory | February 12
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Movies
Steve_martin
Did the band Incubus take an angry pill? | February 18
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Entertainment
Music
Anti_bush
The Republican Schizophrenic: Captialism versus Christianity | February 18
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Culture
Religion and Innovation | February 18
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Religion
Geopolitics
Economics
Watching some movies while unpacking... | February 22
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Entertainment
Finished setting up my bedroom | February 22
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Personal
Mountain_view
Steven on Same-Sex Marriage | February 25
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Politics
What we should really be worried about... | February 26
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Geopolitics
Bush
Is conservatism incompatible with capitalism? | February 27
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Politics
The Decline of the American Empire: When "The Apprentice" MBA became standard issue, and our moral compass was overwritten | February 28
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Culture
Thinking about Lebanon still has me thinking about my homeland | February 28
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General
Blog-insanity | February 28
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Personal
Quotes
Drugs aren’t funny, but Dave Navarro is | February 29
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Entertainment
Lieutenant Cmdr. Data is the perfect Existential Dilemma in a box | February 29
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Entertainment
Start_trek_tng
March
Prana | March 3
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General
Movie evening | March 4
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General
Dinosaurs and This American Life | March 6
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Personal
Media
My parents, the time travelers | March 8
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Personal
Recollections
YOU are a LUCKY Person | March 8
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Personal
Motivation
Yoga Class Number 3... | March 9
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Personal
Yoga
Madrid attacked | March 11
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Geopolitics
Terrorism
"Cutting" - a horrid sickness | March 11
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Ruminations
Something’s not right in the universe | March 12
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Personal
Important News | March 16
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Bay_area
Fast_food
Quiznos
An Apology | March 16
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General
Discovering things about one’s body | March 16
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Personal
Great links from boingboing.net | March 17
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Internet
Amusement
James Dedman | March 17
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Friends
Rock and Roll needs black-haired girls with shag haircuts.... | March 19
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Entertainment
Camille Paglia on Blogs and Blogging | March 19
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Blogging
An example of the mendacity of the Bush Administration | March 19
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Politics
Bush
March 20, 2004 - a good day to live in Northern California | March 20
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Personal
If Xeni Jardin were to inteview me.. | March 21
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Internet_culture
Finished moving in... | March 21
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Personal
Movies
Mountain_view
Running low on bathroom supplies? | March 22
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Modern_times
Politics
Sometimes your prayers get answered ... | March 25
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Personal
Quick thought.. | March 25
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Internet_culture
Scientific progress... | March 25
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Religion
Government
Bush
Last Friday... | March 29
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Personal
Shooting
Europe... | March 29
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General
If you’re active on Sunday morning | March 29
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Culture
Diets...and le vin | March 29
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Personal
Travel
Alcohol
Going on vacation tomorrow | March 30
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General
April
¡Hola! | April 7
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Travelogue
Last night in Catalunya | April 11
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Travelogue
Catalunya
Barcelona
Figueres
Dali
Slouched back to SJ... | April 13
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Travelogue
Got a bit o’ shut eye, existential dread and e-mail (I like mutt! Woof!) | April 14
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Personal
Mutt
Programming
Vivement des vacances | April 14
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Travel
Personal
Work
Worthy of note! Pixies perform ensemble! | April 14
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Music
Who is Steven Harms? | April 15
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Personal
I saw Kill Bill 2 last night | April 17
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Movies
Personal
Mountain_view
P_dizzle
No more, please | April 18
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Music
Magazine Tearing Boy on the Plane | April 19
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Personal
Condescension done right | April 20
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Personal
The best way to get around Barcelona on a Sunny Day | April 21
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Travel
Spain
Bicycle
Classes | April 21
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Personal
Yoga
Mountain_view
Flamenco
The myth of wunderwaffen | April 24
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Politics
Anthony_swofford
New word | April 26
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Movies
Science
Christianity and Virtue | April 26
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Religion
Philosophy
Essay
I will not be seeing the Passion | April 27
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Religion
Christianity
Occasionally you find great sites by accident | April 29
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Pesronal
Web_culture
Webcomics
Movies
I hate only a few things | April 30
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Personal
Animals
May
Busy Week(s) | May 2
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Personal
Mountain_view
Good movies set in SF; recent Netflix movies | May 2
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Movies
San_francisco
Monica_bellucci
Almodovar
Malena
The spiritual center of the South Bay: Mountain View | May 2
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General
Eep! I missed national poetry month | May 3
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Personal
Propz to Branson | May 4
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Media
Television
Off to Londinium tomorrow | May 6
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Travelogue
Evil women and eros | May 6
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Politics
Bush
Coming back from the UK today | May 12
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Travel
Work
London
Living the cyber.chic life | May 12
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Internet_culture
Travel
London
Mice is displaying my art... | May 14
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Personal
Recollections
Just watched Laurel Canyon | May 15
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Movies
Cholodenko
Something I forgot about "Blue Crush" | May 15
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Movies
The mysterious lore of Linux Chicks | May 15
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Internet_culture
British Museum | May 15
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London
Travelogue
Watched Step into Liquid; Hawaiian dictionary | May 16
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Movies
Surfing
Something special happened last Sunday | May 19
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Personal
Cell Phone Woes | May 19
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Bay_area
Going back to Houston | May 19
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Travelogue
Personal
Weddings
BayAreans: Are we snobs? | May 23
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San_francisco
Bay_area
Society
Blog backload...and the couple Newsom | May 31
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Culture
Stop wasting time | May 31
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Personal
People who love "Law and Order" | May 31
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Television
Art_and_design
Law_and_order
June
Je suis | June 1
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Personal
Self_discovery
Meyers_briggs
Mbti
Powerbook is Sick... | June 2
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Apple
Personal
Stealing ideas from "Just Laura" blog | June 2
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Blog
Mac-less | June 4
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Windows
Apple
Personal
Les jeux electroniques | June 4
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Video_games
Ico
More Ico - inspired whimsy | June 4
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Entertainment
Clutter, even clean clutter, is clutter | June 5
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Personal
Travel
Culture
Daniel Lanois is a brilliant songwriter | June 5
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Music
Art
Songwriting
Must break through demotivation | June 6
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Personal
The PowerBook is back en route | June 6
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Apple
Productivity
If you need to fix your keyboard on windows | June 6
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Dvorak
Productivity
In case you forget... | June 6
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Video_games
Not even rockstars party like this.. | June 7
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Funny
Realtors in Dallas must be desperate | June 8
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Culture
Seattle’s new library | June 10
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Urbanism
Seattle
Design
Architecture
If your Powerbook needs some more CONTROL | June 11
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Apple
Productivity
I love the band Interpol | June 11
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Music
Interpol
Nostalgia
Music
Sf
I may have a blog fest tonight | June 11
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Personal
OK, what i’m working on | June 11
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Recollections
Music
Nostalgia
Janes_addiction
Scrapped Jane's Addiction - on to Satriani | June 11
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Music
On to Ladytron | June 11
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Music
75 minutes to go | June 11
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Work
Personal
Finished the review.. | June 11
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Work
Personal
Joseph_campbell
Reading the morning sites and... | June 12
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Captialism
Media
Best Saturday morning show | June 12
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Television
Watching "Triumph of the Will" | June 12
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Movies
Politics
More thoughts on "Triumph of the Will"... | June 12
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Politics
Movies
Happy Engrish message from Chinatown | June 13
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Mountain_view
Friends
Scenes from 1987 | June 13
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Entertainment
Back to yoga | June 15
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Personal
Yoga
Mountain_view
Music
David_sedaris
Something inspiring | June 15
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Education
Internet_culture
I love pulpy sci-fi books in used bookstores | June 17
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Books
Some people feel self-conscious at the check-out stand | June 21
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Modern_times
Media
Anxiety
That’s right, you’re not from Texas... | June 24
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Friends
I had an out of body experience | June 24
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Mysticism
Personal
I love Scandinavian Rock Bands — still | June 27
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Music
Scandinavianism
Speaking of Scandinavian bands | June 27
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Music
Scandinavianism
Great New Track: "Mass Destruction" by Faithless | June 27
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Entertainment
Entry for the Mellies | June 27
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Modern_times
Media
July
Is that Dido in the Faithless vide | July 2
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Music
British people are pretty funny.. | July 2
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Psychedelics
OK Two Hours of sleep - aaaarggghhh | July 3
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Insomnia
Personal
Health
Massage day | July 5
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General
How badass is GENE HACKMAN | July 7
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Movies
The Cardigans’ new record is great | July 10
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Entertainment
Music
Dennis Miller’s Show on CNBC | July 11
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Television
Politics
Robert Smith hates Queen — | July 11
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Music
More from the Cardigans record | July 11
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Music
The_cardigans
Sweden
Lyrics
The Right Kind of Girl | July 12
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Media
Television
Jealousy | July 13
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Music
Scandinavianism
Sometimes only Dead Horse can help you make an intelligible response | July 13
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Media
Over ten years with PJ Harvey | July 16
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Music
Pj_harvey
Loot a-purchasin’ | July 18
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General
Monday | July 20
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Personal
Work
Education
Teaching
A very funny Craigslist forum discussion | July 23
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San_francisco
The True Reason the Young look Young | July 24
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General
When the internet depends too much on one technology | July 26
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Internet_culture
In Memoriam: Francis Crick | July 29
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Rip
Science
August
My favourite animal at the moment | August 1
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Animals
Some funny stuff...and some interesting stuff | August 2
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Personal
Time to change... | August 2
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Blog
Cameraphone warning to kids | August 3
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Personal
Palo Alto Sunday | August 3
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Personal
The Holy Spirit | August 4
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Religion
Spirituality
I love my cell phone for its ringers... | August 4
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Personal
Music
Mozart
Don’t like The Hives — still | August 6
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Critique
Culture
Music
Today is my birthday, and by blog’s too | August 9
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Personal
In Memoriam: Harold Harms | August 12
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Personal
Only in Texas... | August 19
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Culture
Closer to Fine, not Curly Fine | August 19
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Networking
If you need to XML, Learn Perl | August 19
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Productivity
Perl
Xml
On Programming.... | August 20
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Personal
Asian People Love Me, and they Love my Shirt | August 21
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Books
Just watched "Pacific Heights" | August 21
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Entertainment
Movies
San_francisco
I saw "Collateral" the other day. | August 21
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Entertainment
Movies
Michael_mann
Dave Matthews band in trouble for dumping crap? | August 24
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Entertainment
Music
Dave_matthews_band
How long are the days.... | August 25
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General
I caught "Hero" last night | August 27
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Movies
North Carolina is different | August 30
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Culture
Let me just say. | August 31
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Critique
Culture
September
Finished a book | September 1
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Books
Going to Maui in a few weeks | September 3
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Personal
Travelogue
Scenes from Bayarea, California | September 9
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Cooking
Personal
George W. Bush’s Magic Glasses | September 16
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Humor
Politics
Break your heart in Glam | September 18
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Music
Glam
T_rex
Bowie
You can’t win, but there are alternatives to fighting | September 22
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Movies
Capitalism
Sears
Nostalgia
Hawaii on my mind..."Hawaii" too... | September 22
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Culture
Entertainment
Ad I hate | September 22
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Critique
Culture
Commercials
Law and Order Premiere | September 23
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Entertainment
Still not really packing... | September 23
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Entertainment
Gone To Maui | September 24
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Personal
Travelogue
October
Sanctimony, thy name is Public Broadcast membership | October 1
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Culture
Kqed
I watched Dirty Harry a few weeks back | October 1
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Movies
Ladytron is an excellent band... | October 1
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Books
Music
I didn’t understand the premise of "The Girl Next Door" | October 1
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Entertainment
Virginia Madsen | October 1
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Entertainment
Terrorists | October 1
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Politics
Lot of new content from the archives | October 1
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Personal
I always know I’m back in the South Bay when... | October 2
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Culture
Fast_food
Carls_jr
South_bay
Rumour is that Jim Dedman has bought a Mac | October 2
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Art_and_design
Apple
I always know I’m back in the South Bay when...(Part II) | October 2
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Cooking
Culture
Mountain_view
Media Consumption Weekend Part 1: New music... | October 3
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Books
Music
Media Consumption Weekend Part 2: Books read in Hawaii | October 3
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Books
Hawai'i Pictures | October 3
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Personal
More Ads I hate | October 3
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Critique
Culture
Soros has a blog | October 3
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Politics
Yet even more ads I hate | October 3
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Critique
Culture
Beautiful tattoo work...and video game reveries | October 4
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Video_games
Was Bush getting fed lines during 1st debate? | October 8
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Politics
Maui wrap up | October 8
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Travelogue
Helpful Microsoft Word.... | October 8
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Culture
Enoch: Seventh of Adam; Grandfather of Noah, Taken by God | October 8
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Culture
Finished my first sizable Cocoa application | October 8
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Cocoa
VH1’s History of Hip Hop show | October 10
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Culture
My Life with Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fandom | October 10
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Entertainment
The Time Traveler’s Wife | October 10
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Books
Dedman’s Complaint | October 12
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Books
Entertainment
iPod seredipity | October 12
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Apple
Jacques Derrida died on the 8th | October 13
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Philosophy_proper
Damocles and The Time Traveler’s Wife | October 16
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Books
On Programming...why I love it | October 18
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Programming
Productivity
The smell of.. | October 20
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Culture
Signs you’re in Silicon Valley | October 21
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Culture
Entertainment
A summertime snack | October 25
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Personal
Dirty Rhetorical Tricks | October 25
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Philosophy_proper
Some links! | October 25
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Culture
Entertainment
Pulp fiction art work | October 25
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Entertainment
Ashlee Simpson, outed as lip-syncist | October 25
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Critique
Culture
Entertainment
Dvorak history... | October 26
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Dvorak
John F. Kerry for President | October 26
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Personal
Politics
Arch conservative Buchanan’s magazine endorses Kerry | October 27
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Politics
Let’s make it two Massachusetts victories in a week | October 27
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Politics
November
Weddings during wartime... | November 2
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Culture
Politics
Trying not to look at exit polls | November 2
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Politics
What to say.... | November 3
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Critique
Culture
Republicanism explored : What is the virtue of self-interest? | November 3
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Personal
A show that scared the bejesus out of me | November 5
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Entertainment
Scifi
Books
Recollections
Reset the MT-blacklist | November 7
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Blogging
Tender and beautiful: Hopkin Green Frog | November 9
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Culture
Do you often forward URLs? | November 9
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Javascript
Advertisement in email | November 10
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Travelogue
The "oh well" attitude of life and death | November 11
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Culture
It’s so obvious... | November 11
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Programming
Curse you del.icio.us! | November 11
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Web
Occasionally, I think Republicans are decent folks | November 11
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Politics
O the irony | November 11
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Politics
Computer Scientists versus Everyone Else | November 11
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Education
Programming
Internet_culture
A great set o’ music on KFJC | November 13
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Music
More on good musics... | November 13
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Music
Are you trying to get something done? | November 13
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Arete
If you want to have a successful tech company in the future.. | November 13
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Politics
Internet_culture
News of the week | November 17
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Personal
Tivo 30 second skip | November 18
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Tivo
Why you should not commit suicide | November 19
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Personal
Why don’t Americans use A4 paper | November 22
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Culture
A blasé entry | November 22
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Entertainment
New words in Italian | November 23
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Linguistics
How bad ass are Detectives Fontana and Green? | November 23
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Entertainment
Daily Texan Associate Editor Jim’s Movie | November 28
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Entertainment
Movies
Postmodernism in the OC | November 29
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Entertainment
December
Headed back to Jesusland | December 1
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Travelogue
Mixture of blog elements | December 2
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Travelogue
Much like LL Cool J | December 7
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Austin
Travelogue
Thinking about relationships... | December 8
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Personal
Yikes... | December 8
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Culture
If you consider how popular Jon Stewart is... | December 8
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Entertainment
Someday there will be a German word for this | December 10
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Critique
Culture
The Past... | December 12
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Art_and_design
The League of Melbotis adds his wisdom | December 14
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Kickinitwitdaleague
Personal
Dedman drives across Jesusland? | December 14
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Personal
Melbotis speaks | December 15
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Culture
Personal
The Apprentice | December 16
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Entertainment
Happy Birthday James Dedman | December 19
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Personal
Desperate Houswife Mania | December 20
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Entertainment
Perl coding in the enterprise considered Harmful | December 20
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Perl
More on the depravity of Hollywood’s Creativity | December 23
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Culture
Movies
Happy Christmas Eve | December 24
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Personal
Cool video: Blood Red Summer | December 24
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Music
Passing on the GTD germ | December 24
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Productivity
A Christmas Day Entry | December 25
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Culture
Christmas Advice | December 25
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Culture
Someone really should have thought this through a little better... | December 26
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Culture
I figured out why I like the Gilmore Girls | December 27
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Entertainment
New signature iPods | December 29
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Apple
43 Folders Meetup in SF | December 29
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Design
Productivity
San_francisco
We all knew the Jewish-reggae kid in college | December 29
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Entertainment
For those of you not yet done with Mom Tech support season for the year | December 29
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Tech_support
Internet_culture