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Entries from January 2004

I’m a geek

January 30th, 2004 Leave a Comment

I made the first LJ feed for Alton Brown’s blog!!! feed can be found at alton_brown (http://www.interglacial.com/rss/alton_brown.rss)

Mood: geeky

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gotta love alton brown

January 30th, 2004 1 Comment

From his blog today
Georgia state school Superintendent Kathy Cox has decided that the word “evolution” is “…a buzzword that causes a lot of negative reaction” and should be replaced in all Georgia school curriculum with the phrase “biological changes over time”.
I agree. I hate buzzwords, don’t you? That’s why I think we should go […]

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Frustration, New Directions

January 28th, 2004 3 Comments

Some of you know, some of you don’t; in my spare time I am tinkering on some web stuff to track various collectible passions in our household (CD’s, DVD’s, and most importantly, wine). In the interest of being all open-sourcey and filled with love for free software, I’ve been experimenting with Zope and MySQL […]

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A SUPERHERO!

January 27th, 2004 Leave a Comment

Meme du jour…

Your Superhero Persona by couplandesque

Your Name

Superhero Name
Manic-Depressive Man

Super Power
Irresistable Sexuality

Enemy
The Disgruntled Mailman

Mode Of Transportation
Mechanical Bull

Weapon
Computer Parts

Created with quill18’s MemeGen 2.0!

Mood:silly
Music:Vangelis - “Anthem (Takkyu Ishino Remix)”

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a song for you

January 27th, 2004 6 Comments

Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch! Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She’s gone where the goblins go,Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let’s open up and sing and ring the […]

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Oh Captain My Captain!

January 24th, 2004 Leave a Comment

Alas, another of the great ones has passed into the West…
Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo, is dead.
Some part of me suspects that he’s really just moved to the same tropical island with Fred Rogers and Jim Henson, but the rest of me knows better. Both parts of me are equally saddened at his passing.

Mood:heartbroken
Music:Peter […]

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UGH!!!

January 22nd, 2004 Leave a Comment

Database broke this morning, now e-mail, what else is going to break next?
We don’t have time to deal with these systems breaking!

Mood: frustrated

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light. .

January 21st, 2004 5 Comments

is. . there. . light. . at. . the. . end . . of. . the . . tunnel?
need snorkel or scuba gear, cause i’m that under water.

Mood: crazy

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I Hear Mars Is Lovely This Time of Year

January 16th, 2004 9 Comments

How do you know when winter is kicking your collective North American ass?
When it’s warmer on Mars than in New England.
There’s something just inherently wrong with that.

Mood:cold
Music:John Williams - “The Battle of Hoth”

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Thank You, Patriot Act!

January 13th, 2004 7 Comments

I missed MoveOn.org’s webcast of their “Bush in 30 Seconds” shin-dig, but finally did get a chance to see all of the finalists.
While there were some not-very-good ones in the 1500+ that were submitted, some pretty impressive ads came out of the contest as well. Many, especially (most of) the finalists, are […]

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