Posts from 2006
January
Back to Sunnyvale for the New Year.. | January 2
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Personal
Suck it ESPN - ‘Horns win the Rose Bowl | January 5
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Austin
Critique
Sports
Road Trip to Pebble Beach | January 9
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Pictures
Travelogue
Countdown to Rome... | January 9
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Travelogue
Education
Bignerdranch
Blogging offline, from Wis-kahn-sin | January 13
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Art_and_design
Travelogue
The Eternal City | January 16
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Pictures
Travelogue
Starting Cocoa class in rome | January 16
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Travelogue
First opportunity to catch up | January 17
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Travelogue
Finished The Confusion by Neal Stephenson | January 18
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Books
In the Roman Countryside | January 19
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Pictures
Travelogue
More pictures from my Roman Cocoa Bootcamp | January 19
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Cocoa
Education
February
Hello Strangers... | February 1
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Cocoa
Personal
Travelogue
I can see clearly now the rain is gone | February 3
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Personal
Retirement of spectacles | February 8
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Personal
Update on the laser-vision install | February 8
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Cocoa
Personal
I enjoy languages and computer languages, specifically | February 9
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Programming
This whole Danish cartoon thing... | February 14
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Modern_times
Philosophy_proper
Continuing to display that countries with a free press don’t really care... | February 15
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Politics
The secretly subversive Wikipedia mail of the day | February 15
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Internet_culture
The Social Bobcat dips a tender paw in the online blogosphere | February 17
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Personal
Light on the posting... | February 27
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Personal
Cocoa
March
Back from the underbelly | March 6
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Cocoa
Finished the SudokuGrid application | March 6
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Cocoa
Programming
Blog backlog | March 6
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Meta
Download the SudokuGrid Application | March 8
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Cocoa
My girlfriend is great because... | March 8
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Personal
I’m wary, but here goes | March 8
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Entertainment
Are the sands shifting underneath our feet? | March 11
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Politics
Unfortunate Abbreviations | March 12
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Ruminations
Undertaking The System of the World | March 12
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Books
I mis-Austened myself | March 12
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Movies
A film about pin-up icon Bettie Page? | March 12
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Entertainment
Finished Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto | March 12
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Books
Keira Knightley’s Teeth of Doom | March 13
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Entertainment
Hints on editing quickly | March 14
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Vim
V for Victorious | March 18
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Movies
Saturday at the Cine | March 18
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Movies
Thinking about the boondocks... | March 25
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Politics
Working with NSAffine Transform in Cocoa | March 25
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Cocoa
Objective-C
Avoid wars with someone who believes in re-incarnation | March 25
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Mysticism
Politics
Steven: Secret Survey Subversive (and sibilant) | March 29
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Tech_support
Internet_culture
April
Is this the cutest thing ever? | April 7
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Personal
I shudder to say, but I am totally excited about Silent Hill, the movie | April 10
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Entertainment
Latest Cocoa Program: Simple Flash Card ( neu mit Cocoa-bindings! ) | April 13
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Cocoa
Productivity
Farewell MovableType | April 16
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Personal
Wikiquotes of the day: Euler and his Kantianism, and The Son of God | April 19
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Gnosticism
Philosophy_proper
Site revamp finished | April 20
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News!
Personal
Steven is going back to Austin | April 21
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General
News!
Personal
Going slightly crazy | April 24
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Personal
Networking
Day 1 of Intro training has come and gone... | April 26
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Productivity
Education
Networking
Where, oh where are the poets like this? | April 27
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Art_and_design
Culture
Sketchup! | April 28
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Sketchup
The Season of Closing Cycles | April 28
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Personal
Finished INTRO training | April 28
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Networking
Startup School | April 29
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Stanford
Startups
Palo_alto
"E"asy Cheezy Pretzels | April 30
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Culture
Nostalgia
May
MemoryBank: Yet another Flash Card application available for download | May 1
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Cocoa
I love a good prank... | May 4
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Culture
Colbert calls Bush Arsenio, to his face. | May 4
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Culture
Politics
Handy site for firefox extensions | May 6
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Firefox
Freedom is on the move in Iraq | May 7
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Modern_times
Politics
Bush
Vatican astronomer calls creationism a version of paganism | May 8
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Culture
General
Philosophy_proper
Nietzsche would be proud | May 8
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Modern_times
Philosophy_proper
Politics
[ EXCLUSIVE ] Content of Ahmadinejad’s letter to Bush | May 8
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Politics
Bush
Leaving the Vale of the Sun (UPDATED) | May 8
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Personal
Programmers and domestic goddesses | May 16
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Art_and_design
Perl
Apple does the awful: Glossy Screens | May 17
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Apple
It’s getting warm in here, and this handbasket is awfully uncomfortable | May 19
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Politics
Not writing much | May 21
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Meta
Visit to Willits and Ft. Bragg | May 22
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Travelogue
Norcal
The Final Countdown | May 22
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Nostalgia
Personal
First leg of migration down | May 29
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Personal
Travelogue
Vegas, and on to the Grand Canyon | May 31
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Travelogue
Best Western SLO vs. Paris Las Vegas | May 31
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Personal
Travelogue
What happened to the slot machines | May 31
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Travelogue
June
Living in Austin | June 9
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Personal
And I, for one, welcome our new machine overlords | June 11
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Travelogue
Henry Rollins is hee-hi-larious | June 14
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Politics
When waiting, focus your power | June 15
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Movies
Zen
Test Post from Within Textmate | June 16
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Textmate
I am a resident of Austin, Texas now ( again ) | June 19
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General
SIMPLIFY | June 19
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General
Personal
( - 40 1 ) days | June 20
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Personal
Yoga
Steven is a whimsical programmer | June 20
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Ruby
Randomly running into Idgy Vaughn | June 21
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Austin
Music
Dude, an astronaut totally pwn'd you | June 21
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Culture
Posh Spice channels Sisters frontman Andrew Eldritch | June 23
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Culture
Entertainment
Paging Herr Doktor Zyklon | June 25
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Politics
I love the 80’s, but sometimes she’s an abusive wife | June 26
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Culture
(+ (* -1 8) 40) days left in the 40-day yoga challenge | June 27
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Austin
Yoga
The Season of Closing Cycles Part II: California Round Trips and Folk Singers | June 28
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Personal
At my new office... | June 29
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Personal
Work
July
Flat Track Invasion: Steven sees TXRollerGirl Action | July 3
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Entertainment
Monday Morning Referees | July 3
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Culture
General
Kit Fisto is my favorite Jedi | July 3
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Entertainment
Why I hate Kim Jong-Il | July 5
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Modern_times
Politics
Sally Fourth | July 5
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Austin
General
Austin: A good town for modern architecture | July 6
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Art_and_design
Austin
A Handy Tip for Ruby Developers: Dispatch Tables | July 8
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Ruby
Perl
Programming
I saw "Pirates II", it wasn’t very good (1/2) | July 9
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Critique
Entertainment
Pirates II continues to disappoint (2/2) | July 9
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Critique
Entertainment
I feel the geometry going wrong in the Childrens’ section... | July 10
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Austin
Books
Musical Accopmianiment to Austin’s Modern Homes | July 12
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Austin
Music
Busy, Busy | July 23
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Personal
Thoughts... | July 23
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Politics
Completed the 40-day Yoga Challenge | July 29
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Austin
Gnosticism
Personal
Yoga
August
Summertime with my baby | August 6
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Austin
Personal
Kit Fisto, party of two | August 10
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Personal
Wet...hot...shaving action | August 10
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Modern_times
Personal
Toys
A nice birthday... | August 10
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Personal
Dateline NBC attacks the hard questions | August 18
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Culture
Working up to AJAX by learning something about the DOM and Javascript | August 20
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Ajax
Html
Javascript
Web
Going further with JavaScript and the DOM | August 20
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Ajax
Javascript
Functional_programming
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia | August 20
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Austin
Personal
Web
A fun weekend | August 22
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Austin
Personal
Toys
Doing the trivia thing with the Mayor, Alfredo, and Osakatomebaby-lady | August 23
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Austin
Nostalgia
Personal
I can see the metal in your eyes | August 24
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Entertainment
Music
Shutter the Pentagon, close Westpoint: The War Nerd rules | August 24
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Culture
Entertainment
Modern_times
Bruno Kirby goes into the great beyond | August 25
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Entertainment
Lauren’s first visit to The Alamo Drafthouse | August 26
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Austin
Entertainment
The Previews! | August 26
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Austin
Entertainment
Parler francais avec Tex | August 26
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Austin
It’s only really worth having if you can give it away... | August 27
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Politics
Good WikiQuote Weekend | August 28
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Modern_times
Philosophy_proper
Inflicting indignities upon a dignified people | August 31
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Entertainment
Michael Bay, this is the last straw | August 31
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Entertainment
Why my girlfriend totally rules | August 31
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Austin
Personal
Rappacini, Philip K. Dick, Origami, and the Zen of the unnatural natural | August 31
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Arete
Culture
Design
Ruminations
Zen
Updating some layout | August 31
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Meta
September
Early morning movie thoughts | September 2
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Entertainment
Testing more formatting | September 2
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Meta
Making some progress with JavaScript menus | September 2
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Ajax
Design
Javascript
Site Update Complete | September 3
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Meta
Enjoying the weekend and holiday | September 4
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Personal
Hitler’s rise to power | September 5
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Politics
Oh the difference a percent makes | September 5
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Modern_times
Politics
Warfare
Is the war on terror over, barring a much bigger can of worms? | September 7
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Politics
Arguments about politics | September 7
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Politics
Five years later... | September 8
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Politics
The man in black for president | September 8
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Entertainment
Politics
Curse you Neal Stephenson and your knack for similitudes! | September 11
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Unix
Programming
Writing
Visting the Scientology street fair | September 11
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Politics
Religion
Some things in life bear repeating many, many times | September 12
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Entertainment
Is America learning cabaret? | September 13
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Entertainment
Music
Politics
The natural world is full of amazing things | September 15
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Gnosticism
Personal
Aguierre: The Wrath of God | September 19
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Entertainment
September is the month of..... | September 26
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Personal
OpenLDAP ate my week... | September 29
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Programming
Venom! | September 29
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Personal
October
September | October 1
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Austin
Entertainment
Suicide | October 1
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Culture
Entertainment
Politics
La Vie Austienne: ‘Go’ at Austin Java | October 3
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Entertainment
Toys
Zen
Ladytron tickets | October 3
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Austin
Entertainment
Limbo: How low can you go | October 4
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Entertainment
Gnosticism
Saw "The Science of Sleep" | October 6
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Movies
Personal
Back in San Jose this week | October 12
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Personal
Travelogue
The soporific Allan Odgaard | October 16
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Textmate
Monday Morning Meeting with Melbotis, The League of | October 19
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Austin
Personal
Visiting Ginny’s Little Longhorn | October 20
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Art_and_design
Austin
Entertainment
Ready for the new Mac Book Pro | October 20
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Apple
Entertainment Weekly covers The Cardigans | October 21
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Music
In case you’re wondering, true love looks like this | October 21
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Personal
Ladytron Seen, Melbotis Met | October 22
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Austin
Music
TV Party at Alamo Drafthouse | October 25
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Austin
Entertainment
Finished "Running with Scissors" | October 25
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Books
"Go"-ing crazy, courtesy of the Social Bobcat | October 26
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Entertainment
Windy city? Austin, Tejas | October 27
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Austin
November
Halloween on 6th, the masses, the masques, the religiousity. | November 1
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Austin
Tickets for Regina Spektor on the 10th at Antone’s | November 1
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Austin
Music
Finished The Brief History of the Dead | November 1
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Books
Ruminations
Addendum to The Brief History of the Dead post | November 5
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Books
Steven sees Running With Scissors, the movie | November 7
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Entertainment
Adrienne Shelley and 1997 | November 7
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Austin
Personal
The handbasket is cramped, but it’s not getting hotter at that regular interval | November 8
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News!
Politics
Let me put it succinctly | November 8
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Personal
Politics
...and it just keeps getting better | November 9
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Politics
From the UK’s "Guardian" paper. | November 9
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Politics
Bush
George, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and The Freudian Oedipal "Vision Thing" | November 13
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Entertainment
Politics
Surprises in the workplace | November 17
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Personal
Pre Thanksgiving goings-on | November 19
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Critique
Movies
Personal
Finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy | November 19
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Books
Critique
Culture
Dreaming... | November 26
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Life_and_death
Mysticism
Personal
Traveling back from West Texas | November 26
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Personal
iRead iWoz | November 26
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Books
Design
Apple
Word So Totally Sucks | November 27
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Art_and_design
Html
The Fines of Texas are Upon You | November 27
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Austin
Personal
A Good Austin Citizen: Joining the Public Library | November 28
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Austin
Books
December
Mysteries of the humour universe | December 3
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Art_and_design
Humor
On the topic of Un-Funny: Then there was Clerks II | December 3
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Entertainment
Movies
A delightful independent film: Raising Victor Vargas | December 6
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Entertainment
Movies
Nietzsche Family Circus | December 10
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Philosophy_proper
Watched "Brick" | December 11
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Movies
Fun with Unicode | December 11
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Unicode
End of the week in SoCo | December 16
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Austin
Personal
I love programming languages! | December 20
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Personal
Howdy readers | December 20
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General
Personal
Something’s very, very wrong in this country | December 23
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Politics