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May 21st, 2012
11:59 pm - substrate that bacteria party on '.
'We are the substrate that bacteria party on.'
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05:36 pm - drive prices have Maybe some of these.
http://j.mp/LbArBH
Maybe some of these hard drive prices have been staying high, but if you can get 3TB drives for $140 external, I'm starting to think that maybe the worst is over.
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12:29 am - and his personal example 'The Emperor rode.
the wikipedia's page for pedro ii, emperor of brazil is almost unreasonably flattering.
'The Emperor rode within rifle-shot of Uruguaiana to demonstrate his courage, but the Paraguayans did not attack him.[253] To avoid further bloodshed, he offered terms of surrender to the Paraguayan commander, which was accepted.[250][254][255] Pedro II's coordination of the military operations and his personal example played a decisive role in successfully repulsing the Paraguayan invasion of Brazilian territory.[25
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May 18th, 2012
01:39 pm - this is not a test.
on facebook:
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May 15th, 2012
08:48 pm - the stories i'd say the stories.
going by the overall tenor of the stories, i'd say the news about the facebook ipo is all hype. it feels like they're trying too hrad.
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May 13th, 2012
03:14 am - pro starcraft videos the announcers .
whenever i happen upon pro starcraft videos, the announcers sound very excited, and i have no idea what's going on.
does g4 still exist? did they ever broadcast videos with translated commentary? seems like there'd be a real niche for that kind of thing.
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May 12th, 2012
06:29 pm - torn a All like get's All the.
Rails guy does a pull request to Linus over github, get's torn a new one. All the web 2.0 guys are like, that guys not very nice, like it's a revelation or something.
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May 11th, 2012
11:18 pm - pink floyd '.
'it doesn't, in the end, not sound like pink floyd.'
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May 10th, 2012
09:53 pm - satisfying duel of explosive suicide vests '.
'morally satisfying duel of explosive suicide vests.'
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08:38 pm - it would be kind of convenient if.
it would be kind of convenient if there were a non-parody journalist's guide to firearms identification.
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04:41 pm - hand these on i'm sure.
'. . .require repetitive inspections of carry-through spars of affected aircraft, allowing for continued flight in many instances where small cracks are found.'
on the one hand, i'm sure the faa knows what they're doing.
on the other, seeing as how the spar basically holds the wings together, i'd really rather not have cracks at all.
gripping hand, these planes are often over 40 years old. i should be impressed they still fly at all.
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May 7th, 2012
05:30 pm - '80s romanian policy of keeping the .
hmm. i can't find any evidence on the internet that the term 'science diet' refers to the '80s romanian policy of keeping the population underfed to ensure they had no energy for revolution.
kind of scary how thoroughly that one's gone down the memory hole.
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May 6th, 2012
01:20 am - had more illegal money than they could.
'he and his brother's operation spent $2500 a month just purchasing rubber bands to wrap the stacks of cash -- and since they had more illegal money than they could deposit in the baks, they stored the bricks of cash in their warehouses, annually writing off 10% as 'spoilage' when the rats crept in at night and nibbled on the hundred dollar bills.'
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May 5th, 2012
11:39 pm - no doubt mega-collectable In February .
"In February, Sanrio licensed the famous feline's image to a Hooters restaurant in Japan for one unusual Valentine's Day special. For $11 to $30, you could get your sweetie a mondo ice cream parfait, along with a limited-edition (and no doubt mega-collectable) Hello Kitty x Hooters pin."
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May 2nd, 2012
10:24 pm - a l i t t l e b i t m o r e t i m e t o a s s o c i a t e .
" A l t h o u g h D u k e N u k e m F o r e v e r h a s b e e n u n d e r d e v e l o p m e n t f o r 1 3 y e a r s a t 3 D R e a l m s , i t w a s r e l e a s e d u n d e r o u r n a m e . W e w a n t p e o p l e t o a s s o c i a t e G e a r b o x S o f t w a r e w i t h t a k i n g g a m e s t h a t h a v e n o c h a n c e o f s u c c e s s a n d t u r n i n g t h e m i n t o g o l d . W e r e l e a s e d a g a m e t h a t w a s m u c h b e t t e r t h a n w h a t w e g o t , b u t w e c a n d o b e t t e r . T o p r o v e i t , D u k e N u k e m F o r e v e r s r e l e a s e d a t e w i l l b e p u s h e d b a c k a g a i n . W e j u s t n e e d a l i t t l e b i t m o r e t i m e t o m a k e t h i s g a m e g r e a t . "
I wasn't aware that you could do that.
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01:36 pm - m o n e y i s t h e X P '.
' T h e y v e e s s e n t i a l l y d e v e l o p e d a n R P G , w h e r e y o u r m o n e y i s t h e X P . '
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01:16 am - expression 'meteoric rise' is the expression 'meteoric.
now that i think about it, the expression 'meteoric rise' is counterintuitive.
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12:11 am - people have been killed in out of.
'A note from the pilot's handbook read: "If the engine quits in instrument conditions or at night, the pilot should pull the control column full aft and keep the wings level. The leading-edge slats will snap out at about 64 km/h (40 mph,) and when the airplane slows to a forward speed of about 40 km/h (25 mph,) the airplane will sink at about a parachute descent rate until the aircraft hits the ground."
the wikipedia does note that a total of 365 people have been killed in this plane, out of 387 hull-loss accidents.
it does have a stated capacity of 14, so that's something.
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April 30th, 2012
08:38 pm - s b o o k s v a r y e n o r m o u s l y i n q u a l i t y - & q u o t ;.
& q u o t ; O r s o n S c o t t C a r d s b o o k s v a r y e n o r m o u s l y i n q u a l i t y - & q u o t ;
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08:14 pm - golden diamonds'.
'gold-crusted diamond-plated golden diamonds'.
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04:42 pm - need to sink The solution helping.
accessibleartny.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/koons.jpg
'He finally tracked down Dr. Richard P. Feynman, a Nobel Prize winner in physics, who pushed him towards a solution, helping out with the science of density gradients. (The trick is that you have to make the basketball too light to sink and too heavy to rise. The solution, to vastly oversimplify, involved filling the ball itself with water and then layering the bottom two-thirds of the tank with saltwater and the top third with pure water. For all that, the suspension lasts only about six months; collectors need to have the pieces serially re-installed, for which Koons provides a video and manual.)'
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April 29th, 2012
03:57 am - display system is disturbingly comprehensive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliStar t
the wikipedia's page on the weather channel's display system is disturbingly comprehensive.
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02:39 am - whenever we post Currently Stephen.
'As of right now, if I died and everybody kept it a secret, it would go on until 2013. There's a new Dark Tower novel, The Wind in the Keyhole.
'Now he's finished the story he is trying to decide how much he can rewrite it, if he views the sequence as one very long novel. Can he do a second draft? He hopes so. Currently, Stephen King is a character in the fifth and sixth Dark Tower books, and Stephen King the non-fictional author is wondering whether to take him out on the next draft.
on the one hand, that would be a really good idea. on the other hand, ARRRGH
hmm. okay, the bug pops up whenever we post something that turns into that garbage character. 12345
yup, dropped a 6 at the end of that string
space at the end gets trimmed.
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02:29 am - by that measure i closer to in.
finally got around to checking: as the crow flies, i am not, in fact, closer to outer space than to irvine.
by that measure, i'm almost closer to san bernardino.
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April 28th, 2012
02:28 pm - errs in that means in whatever that.
i think the mormon flowchart errs in that, as i read it, all christians (who 'live honorably', whatever that means in this context) go to the terrestrial kingdom.
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03:01 am - idea of an imitation murakami but more.
toying with the idea of an imitation murakami contest.
surprisingly like the hemingway one, but more introspective.
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April 27th, 2012
03:25 am - this is not a test.
excellent.
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03:23 am - lj behaving .
howdy taco. lj behaving again?
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April 26th, 2012
06:45 pm - Umm Umm Umm.
Umm nope.
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April 25th, 2012
04:01 pm - is cool is it .
talk on the wikipedia:
"I realize there is a lurid interest in all things Nazi, which is cool, but the Nazi theme is tangential to this technology, which was well underway before WWII and continues today."
is it really?
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April 24th, 2012
07:36 pm - code is but but on.
"The attentive reader will note that there are usually two bar codes on a book in the United States. The first one is the ISBN; the second bar code is the number 5 followed by a four digit number that is the publisher's suggested price of the book in American pennies."
I had no idea.
you had no idea? _i_ had no idea.
but on some books it's just the last 5 of the isbn.
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12:52 pm - i think i blame lj for the.
taco, are you operative again?
hmm. 'yes.' i think i blame lj for the previous interruption.
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April 20th, 2012
12:49 pm - c a n t t e l l m e t h a t t h e u n i v e r s e .
' E v e r y c r e a t i v e a c t i s o p e n w a r a g a i n s t T h e W a y I t I s . W h a t y o u a r e s a y i n g w h e n y o u m a k e s o m e t h i n g i s t h a t t h e u n i v e r s e i s n o t s u f f i c i e n t , a n d w h a t i t r e a l l y n e e d s i s m o r e y o u . A n d i t d o e s , a c t u a l l y ; i t d o e s . G o l o o k o u t s i d e . Y o u c a n t t e l l m e t h a t w e a r e d o n e m a k i n g t h e w o r l d .
huh. nbsp gets handled poo
'poorly'. even in the future, nothing wo
okay, my client must be acting
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April 18th, 2012
06:51 pm - clearly this is what clearly this.
clearly this is what miyazaki had in mind.
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01:24 am - work should be posted on okay .
i'm not sure the original artist intended that his work should be posted on an inflation-fetish site, but it seems to have occurred.
also, d-type plugsuit:
http://www.bodyinflation.org/node/9354
okay, this has gone far enough. damn jwz.
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April 16th, 2012
01:25 pm - a chip 'not 'not 'not 'not even.
'In the olden days, when engineers completed a chip design, they sent the computer tape out to other groups.'
'not even wrong.'
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12:29 pm - deal i like a in-game .
irritating fact: some touhou songs have a very large proportion of annoying arranges. often they're ones that, in-game, i like a great deal.
(examples: satori's theme, rin's theme, maybe nitori's.)
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11:09 am - now ' such cachet watered-down skinny-vanilla-latte.
'Why does this particular, watered-down, skinny-vanilla-latte version of sadomasochism have such cachet right now?'
such a bizarre sentence.
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April 15th, 2012
11:24 pm - plot in a The difference here.
'You know, I can somewhat sympathize with your disappointment, because I've also been annoyed when the plot in a story didn't take the turn that I wanted or expected it to. The difference here is that I actually exist. I'm not a character in some movie you're watching. My life is not for your entertainment. You don't get to tell me what I find rewarding or fulfilling or or what makes me happy.'
this is like an order of magnitude nicer than i was expecting.
(jwz responding to a guy who declared him craven for quitting mozilla.)
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April 14th, 2012
11:53 pm - theorize i'm hard-wired to generate feature creep.
i theorize i'm hard-wired to generate feature creep until the project becomes implausible.
this is pretty annoying.
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07:14 pm - the moon ' i have a home-burned.
why do i have a home-burned audio cd of 'the dub side of the moon?'
oh, i think it was test burning a gapless cd. (didn't work.)
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April 13th, 2012
09:58 pm - It doesn't surprise me how how regulation.
'That's probably because in the UK taxi licensing is designed to ensure a reasonable level of quality and consistency in taxi services; y'know, how regulation is supposed to work. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that California has a sort of cargo-cult impression of this which keeps all the symbols and magic dances but doesn't actually do what it's supposed to.'
i love how 'cargo cult' is a totalizing metaphor nowadays.
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01:31 pm - no matter frankly i always.
this time of year, i always spend some time reading the tax protester arguments to calibrate my insanity detector.
(although, frankly, calibrating with an off-scale-high is pretty useless.)
there's probably some term from epistemology or theology that describes a value that's unreachable by definition, and continues to be so no matter what sort of scale you develop.
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01:15 pm - with chickens It's their misfortune .
'I don't particularly empathize with chickens. It's their misfortune that they lack big eyes.'
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02:43 am - makes me realize how much i not.
reading jwz's post on tabs makes me realize how much i miss wmaker. why am i not using it? it's even being developed again.
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01:02 am - rising from 21 percent rising rising from.
reinforcing my status as proto-hipster: 'The share of 14 to 34-year-olds without a driver's license increased by 5 percentage points, rising from 21 percent in 2000 to 26 percent in 2010, according to the Federal Highway Administration.'
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