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| december
31 sunday |
Playing a simultaneous turns version of Milken with my brother Frank and a ghost player. We're both staring at the board and planning our next move. | ||
| december
30 saturday |
We're at Shelob's Lair in the Lord of the Rings game. "I want to get to there," says Dad, and plays a card. | ||
| december
29 friday |
Driving through backwoods on Beaver Dam Road, halfway listening to CSpan radio - Bush's pick for Secretary of the Interior is giving her acceptance speech. | ||
| december
28 thursday |
I'm writing an email to Lisa Lazar: 'Enjoying life, worrying about money and my failing eyesight, blah blah.' | ||
| december
27 wednesday |
'the ones i can remember are: geoff hurst (famous
footballer) if you got a first. a 2:2 is refered to as a desmond.
and if you fail, you got a dan quayle.'
- Jim Risner on the Boogie Charade email list
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| december
26 tuesday |
Gina and I are sitting in a car, I'm at the wheel. We're waiting in a traffic jam in Orlando. | ||
| december
25 monday |
Watching TV with Gina. Marty McFly's wife
pulls a pizza out of the oven. His son says, "Is it ready?"
She puts it on the table. "Here you go." |
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| december
24 sunday |
I'm writing with permanent red marker on a piece of paper cut from a paper bag: 'FrOm ThE ORcS' (the S is backwards). | ||
| december
23 saturday |
Waiting in line at a Big and Tall store, playing Spades on my palm pilot and attempting to listen to an unknown rock song in the background. | ||
| december
22 friday |
Rinsing soap from under my arms over the bathroom sink. | ||
| december
21 thursday |
Gina and I are in her Mom's car, driving
up I-95. Gina says, "It's not the name of the town, it's the name of the
apartment complex."
"Yeah I know," I reply, "I'm just kidding." |
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| december
20 wednesday |
Waiting at the customer service desk at REI, looking apprehensively toward the exit. | ||
| december
19 tuesday |
Gina and I are in the kitchen. I'm sitting
at the table idly turning an Enya CD cover in my hands. I say, "Where do
they get such money? I want some."
"Well, apparently Don," she says, "and, I guess Jessica's mother." |
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| december
18 monday |
Setting my alarm on my palm pilot for 10:00 tomorrow reminding me to call Bob Smith. | ||
| december
17 sunday |
Leo is speaking to Jane: "If you're contracting out to different embassies they're not always uh,..." | ||
| december
16 saturday |
I'm spreading fake cream cheese on a slice of whole grain bread. | ||
| december
15 friday |
John Marketon points to a circuit diagram in a book. "This is known as a pull up pull down." He sighs and leans back in his chair. "It's, it's..." | ||
| december
14 thursday |
Gina's in the living room talking on the phone: "But I have four boxes that I can bring tomorrow morning. Yeah." | ||
| december
13 wednesday |
'Ounce for ounce, raw red peppers gave four times more vitamin C than peeled oranges.' | ||
| december
12 tuesday |
On the telephone with my Dad; He laughs
and says, "Oh, so you do this all the time, do you?"
I say, "No, no, I don't do that." |
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| december
11 monday |
Robert L. Forward points at another slide -- an artist's rendition of a laser sail spaceship. "This sail will bring us to Epsilon Eridani. Next slide please." | ||
| december
10 sunday |
Watching TV, a channel with bad reception.
Warren Beatty and Annette Bening are sitting on an airplane together. Warren
says, "Don't tell me he runs it."
"Actually he does." "What is he 30, 35?" |
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| december
9 saturday |
Another Langley Punks movie starts rolling. Black and white picture, handwritten credits, and a hillbilly song: "Just say the word darling, and I'll leave town. Come on, stop cloning around." | ||
| december
8 friday |
Geminids look like most meteors -- they tend to be fast-moving and yellow in color. But there's something special about them. Other meteor showers happen when Earth passes through the debris trail of a comet. | ||
| december
7 thursday |
Running down the stairs at work, smiling, wondering if Tsi Chi heard me when I said that Gina made the hat I'm wearing. | ||
| december
6 wednesday |
Looking at columns of data, blocked beam scans of JPL's MISR sphere from August 19, 1996, wondering how to interpolate blocks for mid levels. | ||
| december
5 tuesday |
My dad reaches for his glass of red kir and tells the bartender, "Well I'm glad they're still here." | ||
| december
4 monday |
I'm scrutinizing radiance data, looking every 50 nanometers at ratios, searching for a pattern. | ||
| december
3 sunday |
I say, "that's great!" as I watch Gina place her unfired udu back on the highest shelf. | ||
| december
2 saturday |
'Jilin seemed to be considering whether
he would have time to grab the lighter while he pushed Shan off the edge.'
- Eliot Patterson, The Skull Mantra
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| december
1 friday |
Jim Butler is talking to his computer: "Shut up! Go to bed. Thank you." | ||
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| november
30 thursday |
Fingers poised over the keyboard, I glance left at the grating position indicator LED (showing a rapid decrease in wavelength) and judge that it'll be over a minute till the scan starts. | ||
| november
29 wednesday |
I'm looking at a clue on today's Cryptic Crossword from the London Telegraph: '15. Beam needed by Thor Heyerdhal, say (6).' | ||
| november
28 tuesday |
'For some players, ownership (e.g. declaring
loudly that, "all gas planets are mine, so stop putting graffiti on 'em,
or I will kill your whole family") is enough to tag many playing pieces...'
-
my EGO TAG web page
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| november
27 monday |
I twiddle my latex-gloved thumbs in the dark, yawn as I glance from my computer's monitor to the monochromator's signal LEDs. There's a U2 song in my head - "One". | ||
| november
26 sunday |
"He puts landing strips on the roof, I
mean it's unbelievable."
-
Diane Mayer
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| november
25 saturday |
I arrive at the Berwyn Cafe's coffee table with my empty paper cup, pick up a pitcher of half n half and pour some into the cup. | ||
| november
24 friday |
Kit's shaking ice from an ice container, over the sink. I turn on the spigot, then turn it off again. | ||
| november
23 thursday |
I'm eating a fork-full of mashed potatoes and stuffing, and listening to Margit Gedra: "...It doesn't taste like soup at all." | ||
| november
22 wednesday |
John Marketon pushes a backgammon board aside as my dad approaches our table and says (to John), "So evidently your cell phone is no longer working." | ||
| november
21 tuesday |
'...to achieve the most thorough scientific investigation of a
comet yet attempted. This very ambitious mission was made even more remarkable
by the in-flight failure of DS1's sole star tracker...'
-
email - FW: Announcement for Eng.Colloq.(11/27/00)
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| november
20 monday |
I toggle the chopper's power switch to the off position, and stare briefly at the red LED indicators as I decide whether or not to turn the whole system off. | ||
| november
19 sunday |
In bed, lying beside Gina, hugging her sleepily. For some reason mixed images from Kids in the Hall are going through my head. | ||
| november
18 saturday |
Thinking about a news story about SUVs being stolen and cut up for parts, while I'm driving behind a Pathfinder on I-95 toward Philadelphia. | ||
| november
17 friday |
I'm choosing a slightly darker gray for the background color of a table on my Graveyard page. | ||
| november
16 thursday |
Dozing on my back in bed, having a mishmash of quick forgotten dreamlets. I think there are conversations, but I can't remember any of the words. | ||
| november
15 wednesday |
I'm sitting in the lecture hall in Building 3, listening to John Gilbert: "So, so this raises a whole bunch of questions." | ||
| november
14 tuesday |
I'm driving Dippy; a woman announcer on CSpan radio says, "We're also going to hear from Charles Burton who is a Palm Beach County judge." | ||
| november
13 monday |
Mike King is pointing with a laser at a slide of a projected satellite image of the world titled 'CERES reflected Solar Flux Feb 26'. He says, "So it'll be brighter over the desert, it'll be brighter over clouds." | ||
| november
12 sunday |
I'm finishing up writing an email: 'I see no reason why either one should give up now. Greenspan must be chuckling a bit, though.' | ||
| november
11 saturday |
I'm standing in the kitchen, pointing back and forth between Jenny and Gina, who are sitting at the kitchen table laughing. "That's worse! Because I know the difference between you two, I just accidentally say Gina or John -- I mean Gina or Jenny!" | ||
| november
10 friday |
Gina's in the kitchen, I'm exiting a nearby closet with a rag in one hand and a glass of white vinegar in the other. Gina says, "There's another thing I worry about - that other house," She turns to me while she's cutting up a red pepper. "It doesn't have a utility closet." | ||
| november
9 thursday |
I read a picture's caption on spacescience.com: 'Above: This painting by Duane Hilton depicts a Leonid outburst over Yosemite's Half Dome. The shower's radiant in 2000 is very near the waning quarter Moon.' Then I glance at the Moon in the picture. | ||
| november
8 wednesday |
"I think we're going to have to replace
the shafts, sooner or later."
-
John Marketon
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| november
7 tuesday |
'Calvert Group, a U.S. mutual fund company known
for socially and environmentally responsible investing, announced yesterday
that it is launching the first-ever socially screened fund investing in
technology companies.'
-
Daily Grist newsletter
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| november
6 monday |
'If Gore-Tex hold the states that they
now have and take the undecided states based on the most recent polls and
leanings, the final tally would be Gore 269, Bush 269.'
-
bushwatch.com
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| november
5 sunday |
I'm at a drum jam in our woods (great beat!), tapping a stick on the side of my dijeridu and breathing in to begin playing it. | ||
| november
4 saturday |
'The doctor said to the Bishop, "So you
see, my lord, your young ordinand can live no more than three years and
doesn't know it. Will you tell him, and what will you do with him?"'
-
Margaret Craven, I Heard the Owl Call My Name
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| november
3 friday |
Lynn Margulis points with a red laser pointer at a large screen that is showing a video of a kidney-shaped bacteria moving a little in place. "Here's one of the cells that came out," she says, "it's going to go through some division here." | ||
| november
2 thursday |
'A database at least needs a version number and date
of last update, in addition to the above sort of rating.'
-
Andrew Plotkin
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| november
1 wednesday |
"If students in 2050 want to learn to read and write - although, with VIVO, why would they?" | ||
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| october
31 tuesday |
"Other countries have lots of other,
powerful parties..."
-
me to John Marketon
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| october
30 monday |
I'm reading a spreadsheet of old four:eleven
entries:
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| october
29 sunday |
Gina and I are standing in our bedroom. I'm folding clothes and watching TV. Xena says to Gabriel, "That's why she wants to know what you're going to do once you get inside Mogador." | ||
| october
28 saturday |
I'm pulling out a lyric insert from Sarah McLachlan's Touch CD while listening to her song Vox: "I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined." | ||
| october
27 friday |
I'm sitting on a stainless steel bench, whistling Sgt. Pepper while I put my right foot into a cleanroom booty. | ||
| october
26 thursday |
"And they have to be reminded that if
we don't calibrate, *their* calibrations are invalid."
"I know, but in this case I just-- I mean, I can let them do it tomorrow, if they need it..." -
John Marketon and me
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| october
25 wednesday |
John Marketon and I silently watch the Sphere Aperture Mapper mechanism twist and hum into position. | ||
| october
24 tuesday |
I whisper "Oh yeah," as I exit a vending room, twisting off the cap of my soda. | ||
| october
23 monday |
'Richard Noone is another guy who thinks May 5 is the date to watch out for, and is capitalizing on that idea with his book, 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster.' | ||
| october
22 sunday |
Walking along a gravel road beside fields and woods. Stacy, Beverly (carrying Gavin, her kid, in a backpack carrier), and Ken are behind me, The dogs, Booda and Riley, are ahead. I overhear Stacy saying, "It's just the place to be." | ||
| october
21 saturday |
Sitting on a rug at a picnic, various people and babies around me. Anu talks to her daughter (a toddler). "He's calling you. You want to say hello to him?" I'm thinking she's talking about Booda, but then realize it's Billy (another baby). | ||
| october
20 friday |
'The socks he leaves on the brown and white carpet in O.J.'s bedroom come from two other screenplays with similar carpets, Guilty Conscience, and a 1988 remake of "Shadow Play" from The Twilight Zone.' | ||
| october
19 thursday |
I'm scanning a Google list: 'California 2000 Election ... good economic times. Gore leads Bush ... to 34%' | ||
| october
18 wednesday |
I right-click a curve on a graph, push the 'None' button under 'Marker' and click 'OK', hoping to see more structure in the graph. | ||
| october
17 tuesday |
Si-chi Tsay, in a very crowded lecture room, taps a graph (it is labeled 'cloudy sky' and 'clear sky') on a screen with his pointer: "This is what you get, OK? The blue curve." | ||
| october
16 monday |
'George W.Bush
PROS: Loves guns and white lines, scares the bejesus out of Saddam CONS: Frat boy who doesn't understand how microphones work' -
ugo.com
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| october
15 sunday |
We're in the kitchen - Gina's chopping onions, I'm sitting at the table and reaching into a bag for another pretzel, and Booda's sniffing over my lap, hoping for a handout. | ||
| october
14 saturday |
'And then, and then... visit my favourites
with the occupants of the tour bus when I return to the present day. And
smile quietly when the guide discusses the grafitti that everyone knows
is a hoax, just because it's signed Naughtius Maximus.'
-
Marcus Morgan, in Time
Travel Sweepstakes
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| october
13 friday |
Sitting in a darkened cleanroom, looking
at notes on a docked laptop:
'16:02 G001013h 16 lamps 16:09 *****lamp H96587 on' |
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| october
12 thursday |
"Up to the very
end when you hear the heart beat."
"Uh huh." "Boomp-boomp, boomp-boomp, boomp-boomp..." "Yeah?" "Dorothy's listening to the Tin Man's heart." -
me and Jim Butler
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| october
11 wednesday |
John Marketon is flipping through a book - Zany Afternoons by Bruce McCall. I snicker, point and read one of the headlines aloud: "Brother Can You Spare a Glance?" | ||
| october
10 tuesday |
I'm trying to think of a name for a book store for Koralleen. I put my hands behind my head and lean back to look up at the ceiling, while my office partner Gil talks about fixing and selling houses. I'm mulling over a Kurt Vonnegut quote, something about putting on armor and attacking a sundae, and thinking maybe Hot Fudge Books? Nah. Gil says, "My house? Oh, my, Gawd." | ||
| october
9 monday |
Playing Dominos with Kory and Ken; it's my turn. I place a domino to match another six pip, hoping that the four changes by my next turn. | ||
| october
8 sunday |
I'm beaming an application to David Strother's Palm. He says, "Ok, receiving: Moon.' Thank you very much." | ||
| october
7 saturday |
I'm talking to Gina as I drift the car backwards to leave our space in front of the Looneys' house. "'Cause I told him I'd take it back home, if he wasn't there." | ||
| october
6 friday |
I'm rinsing my hemp coffee filter under hot water. | ||
| october
5 thursday |
'It reminds me of a -- there's a MacLeash poem, I can't remember, it's like a circus tent, and something about, he looks up at the end of the poem and "there, there, nothing at all" ...' | ||
| october
4 wednesday |
'When things get so balled up that the
people of a country got to cut loose from some other country and
go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting
maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why they done
it, so that everybody can see they are not trying to put nothing over on
nobody.'
-
H.L. Mencken, The Declaration of Independence... in American
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| october
3 tuesday |
Whistling Counting Crows's song "Hangin' Around" and watching for the screen to come into view as I sit down, one hand on the mouse circling to turn off the screensaver, the other hand holding an OCR software package for installation. | ||
| october
2 monday |
I'm taking a phone survey from Agilent.
The woman asks her next question: "And from what other major companies
do you use instruments and testing equipment?"
"Hmmm, other companies..." (I can't remember any company names for our equipment.) "What major companies," she says. |
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| october
1 sunday |
Sitting in Greg Luckner's Manhattan apartment, listening to Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel on a Simpsons CD: "Hey you know what? I can call my mom from up here! Hey Mom, get off the damn roof!" | ||
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| september
30 saturday |
Missed 4:11! Wedding reception music too loud to hear my alarm. | ||
| september
29 friday |
Listening to Ivy in a rental car - "It just couldn't be, only a fool could say that..." - while driving on 95 North; just saw an exit sign that says 'Joppastown.' | ||
| september
28 thursday |
I flush the urinal, zip and turn around to head toward a sink. An older man (looks Indian, has gray hair & glasses) is leaving the sink area. He smiles and quietly says something, maybe "excuse me?" (sounds like an Indian accent) and walks past me to the door. | ||
| september
27 wednesday |
'origin: from Middle English
"vouchen sauf", "to warrant as safe"
1. To condescend to grant or bestow (as a privilege); deign.' -
Word-of-the-Day
email
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| september
26 tuesday |
I copy a quote from Word-of-the-Day
to a note I'm writing to the Zuckermans:
> It has been brought to our attention that a anagram > of "Rush Limbaugh" is "Ah! glum hubris." |
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| september
25 monday |
I type 'G000925', switch quickly to my notepad application to check the last filename ('G000925g'), then back to my control program, append an 'h' and hit the Enter key. | ||
| september
24 sunday |
I'm at the Renaissance Fair, replying to Rich, "long as I gets a little golden shower." Then I yell, "Hey Gina!" | ||
| september
23 saturday |
I'm talking with my brother Bill in my living room. I say, "I think that's pretty common because I went to a buyers' meeting at um NASA, and they mentioned it." | ||
| september
22 friday |
I'm asleep next to Gina, having unrecoverable dreams. | ||
| september
21 thursday |
I'm waiting at a red light, vaguely listening to a news report on the car's radio, something about oil and politics: "...and for failing to provide tax cuts for people who save energy..." The sun is in my eyes, glinting bright through the window. | ||
| september
20 wednesday |
On the phone with Gina; she says, "I mean, we should get as much money as we can, right?" | ||
| september
19 tuesday |
I'm on the phone with Leo. I say, "The
only thing they used to say that some people might consider 'bad'
is, 'is he gay?'"
"Oh yeah, I remember that," says Leo. |
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| september
18 monday |
I'm listening to Charles Townes, inventor of the maser and laser, in a lecture. "Well, they just thought that was crazy, visible wavelengths. Now by that time (before that, 1957, the maser had just been invented)..." | ||
| september
17 sunday |
Kory places his hand on some face up cards that lie on his side of a small, round, black felt-covered table, and says, "Maybe it should be the other way around. Maybe *this* should be what you're paying with." | ||
| september
16 saturday |
Walking, with Gina following, down a steep
road. I'm holding my dijeridu in one hand and eating hard pretzels out
of the other. "Good pretzels," I say, with pretzel in my mouth.
"Huh?" Sounds like pretzel in her mouth too. "Good pretzels." |
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| september
15 friday |
Playing Freecell on my palmtop in the cleanroom while I wait for my monochromator to finish its scan. I'm wondering how to get down to that 9 of diamonds. | ||
| september
14 thursday |
I'm sitting on the sofa with Gina, with my feet up on the sofa. I'm coughing. | ||
| september
13 wednesday |
Asleep, having a mishmash of dream vignettes. George W. Bush is in one, saying "subliminabubble, subliminababble." | ||
| september
12 tuesday |
In bed with a cold, reading from a book by Delany titled Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand: '(moments later he realized her approval was because she most likely thought the gross currents in the plate might have interfered with the workings of the glove had he put it on the other hand; she had taken his choice as sign of the glove's success.)' I can hear Gina sorting through silverware in the other room, only it's not silverware, it's a box of pieces of stained glass. | ||
| september
11 monday |
In a van on a highway - I'm looking at pictures of miniatures in a Game Trade magazine, from an article titled Wiz War in 3-D. Andy, who is driving, passes a water bottle to Kristin. | ||
| september
10 sunday |
I'm at a booth at the Takoma Park Folk Festival, filling out a yellow form for a subscription to a poetry magazine called Visions. | ||
| september
9 saturday |
I'm looking at an online stock brokerage: 'Fill out our simple online application today! If you currently have an account, you can click here to apply for additional accounts.' I click 'Continue'. | ||
| september
8 friday |
I'm typing on a laptop in the cleanroom: '(bank 1 coming up 6.5048a).' I'm very hot, and conscious of the sweat building up in my latex gloves. | ||
| september
7 thursday |
John Marketon's in my office, saying, "Here if you go walking down the street with what looks like a cigarette hanging out of your mouth but it's actually a joint, you get your ass thrown in jail. Why? What good does it do anybody?" | ||
| september
6 wednesday |
I'm on the phone, talking to Debbie at a finance company: "OK, so I talk to Greenbelt and then fill out the loan application..." | ||
| september
5 tuesday |
John Marketon says "It costs 800 dollars to replace all the lamps but that's not critical now. Um... Hey. You're off by a minute!" | ||
| september
4 monday |
Walking along a paved path toward the lake, thinking about jokers and my planned Milken revisions. | ||
| september
3 sunday |
Gina holds open her backpack and says "Put everything in here that's little. The gallon of water first maybe." | ||
| september
2 saturday |
Andy Looney is talking to me on the phone: "OK, Dale wants to make a phone call, and then we'll make a decision." | ||
| september
1 friday |
I'm looking at the doctored photo on a webpage titled In-A-Gadda-Da-Oswald, and wondering if Oswald was really in front of the guy who's now playing the keyboard. | ||
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| august
31 thursday |
I click the 'Window' menu and choose 'Monitor experiment Hardy' and paste a column of data in, just as the monochromator's control program begins a high pitched extended "beeeeee!" to let me know it's finished. | ||
| august
30 wednesday |
Quietly singing an old Beatles song ("...hide your head in the sand little girl, catch you with another man, that's the end") while looking for a size Large cleanroom suit in the anteroom's cabinet. | ||
| august
29 tuesday |
John Marketon and I are chewing corn chips and watching the "product counter" on my program increment quickly. | ||
| august
28 monday |
I double click on new email from my brother Kit. The subject line reads 'Re: COOPER NEWS FLASH'. | ||
| august
27 sunday |
I'm waiting for a page with the definition of 'myrmidon' to load. | ||
| august
26 saturday |
We're at a phone booth in the Jupiter section of a space-themed cornfield maze. Zarf says, "Is there in fact a camera visible?" | ||
| august
25 friday |
I rub my left eye and squint the right one, focusing finally on a sentence from Dave Farquhar's interview with Reiner Knizia: 'I usually start with a topic, and try to find a mechanism or algorithm to give a simple image of the subject.' | ||
| august
24 thursday |
I've just surfed to a site.
The heading reads:
Every Presidential Candidate On Every Issue' |
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| august
23 wednesday |
"Well, that's convenient."
"Yeah." "You had it right on the watch." "Yeah." -
me and Gina
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| august
22 tuesday |
I'm talking to Skip on the phone. He says,
"Do you guys want to meet for lunch, or what?"
I ask, "What, meet at twelve or something?" |
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| august
21 monday |
I'm watching Booda and Buster play-fighting in the front yard. | ||
| august
20 sunday |
Hiking down a steep, rocky mountain trail.
Rick Dutton and Chris Welsh are
debating. Rick says, "You think, 'if I can figure out this mathematical theorem, I can be alpha wolf.'" "Not at that moment," says Chris. |
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| august
19 saturday |
I turn another page in a sports magazine,
and see a small picture of a strong
naked woman on a bicycle. I say "Hey..." "What?" says Chris. "That's a neat picture." |
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| august
18 friday |
"I'm not wearing any underwear."
"I know. I kissed you." -
Gina and me
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| august
17 thursday |
Working at my office computer - I open the BuildTokenList.vi diagram window. | ||
| august
16 wednesday |
I'm blowing my nose into a paper napkin, and staring at my program on the monitor. | ||
| august
15 tuesday |
I enter John Marketon's office and say, "OK, so I have it building a token table. At least a simple one." | ||
| august
14 monday |
'My suggestion is Gnostica. Any better ideas?'
-
me, in an email
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| august
13 sunday |
Here I am, presented with the same
problem, and I still don't do anything!
-
thoughts while driving
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| august
12 saturday |
"Well, would it be in the Yellow Pages?"
"Should be." "Or is it out of range?" -
Kory and me (via phone)
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| august
11 friday |
"He is young."
"He's not that young." -
me and Jim Butler
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| august
10 thursday |
I'm talking quietly to myself, while I'm programming: "So. The first thing's the token. Check the token." | ||
| august
9 wednesday |
My desk computer prompts me, 'To open the document, select an alternate program, with or without translation:' I highlight 'BBEdit 4.5' from the list, and click 'Open'. | ||
| august
8 tuesday |
I'm sitting on a toilet, quietly whistling the William Tell Overture through my teeth while switching to the Main tab on my palm pilot's launcher. | ||
| august
7 monday |
I'm rearranging LabVIEW indicators by quickly dragging and dropping icons in a diagram window. | ||
| august
6 sunday |
Kory and I are examining a chessboard.
I say, "You know what I was thinking
you might do..." Kory smiles. "What?" "I was thinking you'd do this." |
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| august
5 saturday |
I'm unraveling 75 feet of tangled rope and telling Rich "It's a good thing you're not doing this twice in one evening!" | ||
| august
4 friday |
Some Bad Goth Poetry(tm) As nighttime claws at the edges of my eyes,
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Graeme Jefferis
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| august
3 thursday |
I'm looking at LabVIEW diagrams while John Marketon says, "Zero. I'm describing a new token..." | ||
| august
2 wednesday |
I'm looking over an email I'm about to
send to the Icehouse mailing list:
'3. Bandaid - This is a rule that may *appear* to be flavor or spice, but is *only* used to fix a problem, and actually *doesn't* fix the problem, or it creates another problem.' |
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| august
1 tuesday |
'The "super-ko" rule, adopted by many associations, including the American Go Association [2], declares that repetition of the whole board pattern is not allowed. This rule seems reasonable in most practical cases, but has been criticized as being hard to administer and giving some "surprising" results.' | ||
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| july
31 monday |
'The Palm OS® Software Development Kit version 3.5 is free, but requires agreement with the following license. By clicking "I Agree" below, you agree to the license. From there, you will be able to download files.' | ||
| july
30 sunday |
"Do you dance there?"
"I did one. Yeah, we try." -
me & Brick
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| july
29 saturday |
I'm fixing up the sofa for guests and half-listening to Weird Al's song I Lost On Jeopardy: "Well I'm giving up Don Pardo, just tell me now what I didn't win." | ||
| july
28 friday |
'Subs cleared: 100%'
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SubHunt on palmtop
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| july
27 thursday |
I've just dialed Leo. I'm listening to the phone ring, and I'm thinking about the Queen Elizabeth II (a cruise ship). | ||
| july
26 wednesday |
"Hey John?"
"Hey--" "Um, on your way out, could you go lock up the engineering lab?" "Sure." -
John Marketon and me
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| july
25 tuesday |
"It said, 'Eight Pound Man Removed from
Woman's Vagina.'"
"Heh, cool." -
Skip and me (via phone)
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| july
24 monday |
I'm highlighting the words 'speed of' in the phrase 'shapes of galaxies speed of gravity', which I have entered into Google Search. | ||
| july
23 sunday |
"No! Stop it. That's not nice."
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me to Booda
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| july
22 saturday |
"Oh no doubt about that, you start thinking
about other things. You know, other than cruising around on your bike."
-
Atticus Cosgrove
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| july
21 friday |
I'm lying in bed, more or less awake.
I can hear Gina and the upstairs neighbor Atticus outside having a conversation.
Sounds like Atticus is saying, "Oh yeah, they'll give you anything you
want!" Then he laughs.
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| july
20 thursday |
'Mickie,
Please enter the following PR into the system, then return this e-mail to me with the PR Number and the Date Entered spaces completed.' -
top of Purchase Request template
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| july
19 wednesday |
I'm writing on my palm pilot: 'Dad - dragon story'. Gil Smith comes into the office and mutters, "I've gotta get outta here, see ya." | ||
| july
18 tuesday |
'we visited friends in alaska
where skeeters bite and don't ask ya we lost all our bags...' -
a bad limerick I'm writing for Boogie Charade
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| july
17 monday |
"Pretty funny."
"The artwork is right on." "It looks pretty close. It's not as detailed." -
me & Stacy
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| july
16 sunday |
"OK, the awful horrible rule is that a
koan has the Buddha nature if it has two and only two flat pieces pointing
at nothing."
-
me
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| july
15 saturday |
"I think the dimensions are standardized
throughout the airlines."
"I think so, I have them in here." -
Eric Zuckerman and me
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| july
14 friday |
I'm staring blankly at a sign over a booth at Origins: 'SPACE 1889'. | ||
| july
13 thursday |
Looking past the wing at the landscape below, as we descend into Philadelphia. | ||
| july
12 wednesday |
"Oh yeah! Great! Thanks."
"This is huge!" -
me and Gina (to a waitress)
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| july
11 tuesday |
"The most noted reaction is intensification.
Ordinary objects and surroundings become extremely interesting --"
-
Lori Denn reading _Timothy Leary Theory_ (an article by Michelle Biggerstaff)
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| july
10 monday |
But be sure to keep your receipts and
hang onto this."
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LAB airline clerk
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| july
9 sunday |
I shove a handful of Golden Crisp Cereal into my mouth and pick up a glass to get water. | ||
| july
8 saturday |
'Biker disappeared; might have been killed
by bear. Green, nylon jacket found shredded and in many pieces with "teeth"
punctures.'
-
More Alaska Bear Tales, by Larry Kanuit
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| july
7 friday |
"This is the bar that Michelle worked
at until recently."
"Until recently?" "Yeah, she finally decided she couldn't handle it anymore." -
Sherry Biggerstaff and me
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| july
6 thursday |
I'm filling out an accident report: "PARKED CAR AT CEDAR POINT. CAME BACK TO FIND' | ||
| july
5 wednesday |
I'm kissing Gina while waiting in line for Mean Streak. | ||
| july
4 tuesday |
I wipe my face with a paper napkin and look around for the restaurant's restroom. | ||
| july
3 monday |
I'm watching a video monitor while waiting in line for a roller coaster. Stimpy puts a strange contraption of a hat on his head and says, "prepare to activate!" The helmet explodes. | ||
| july
2 sunday |
"It's just the way we do it, here, in
Ohio."
-
me
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| july
1 saturday |
I'm scooping cooked vegetables out of a large iron skillet into a plastic container. | ||
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| may
31 wednesday |
"Speedbumps would be a good idea."
"Speedbumps, yeah!"
- Anon and me
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| may
30 tuesday |
Jim Butler and Anonymous enter my office
and Anon. says, "Hey John! You just missed another buying opportunity,
the market's up by 7.9 percent!"
I respond quickly, "Four:eleven's about to hit, I just thought I'd let you know." |
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| may
29 monday |
I'm half asleep on an airplane as it taxies down the runway. | ||
| may
28 sunday |
I mutter to myself: "I gotta get outta here." | ||
| may
27 saturday |
"If they like the storyline then they'll
want to use her artwork for something else."
-
Christine LeBeau
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| may
26 friday |
"I've got Najam Sashwami!"
- unknown badger at Baycon
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| may
25 thursday |
I take a bi | ||