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{ Monthly Archives } August 2011

i’ve been waiting years for this…

a long, long time ago, before internet, before CDs, when nobody had cell phones, there was a program called RACTER which generated random english prose. a “dumbed-down” version made it on to my very first macintosh (i believe i’ve even got an install floppy around somewhere), but i always wanted to see what would happen [...]

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another week closer to the eschaton…

Oil fouling Gulf matches Deepwater Horizon well – when they succeeded in capping the gulf oil spill last year, i said that it wasn’t over yet, and guess what? Government’s move to monitor online sparks public outcry – the japanese government is planning to monitor online postings concerning the accident at the fukushima nuclear power [...]

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now i know, but it’s too late… 8(

R.I.P. Ivo Pešák i found this video a while ago, and couldn’t figure anything out about it other than the probability that it was czech and made in 1978… now i know that it is the Ivan Mládek Banjo band and that the dancing guy, whose name was Ivo Pešák, just died… now that i [...]

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i torture myself in private

well, not exactly in private… a few weeks ago – it was on a sunday – i made the mistake of scheduling two gigs on the same day. i realised it was a mistake, and yet… i scheduled myself for two gigs in one day, two more times within the next month. one of those [...]

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stanley

stanley got a new toy today. it’s small enough that we have to be careful not to let the dogs get hold of it, but we’ve got a whole bag of tiny, solid “rubber duckie” toys, and stanley really likes them.

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