Monthly Archives: May 2002

eat

Work called today.  Somebody was out, they wanted me to come in.  But I was so bad yesterday that I was feeling that familiar fondness for the rope (and I don’t mean the one with the life ring at the … Continue reading

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ice cream gone

Into the 60’s Howard Johnson’s still owned the road. Expansion had stretched coast to coast. In 1965, sales exceeded those of McDonald’s, Burger King and Kentucky Fried Chicken combined. They were the second largest food feeder in the United States … Continue reading

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an old note

A Memorial Day musing from a while back: ‘memorial’, Joe: 05/31/00.  I think I have forgotten the entire year, 2000.  I do not recall whether I wrote it (in handwriting) as ’00,’ or ‘2000.’  It seems unattached to the events … Continue reading

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in the quiet

I am easily intimidated–until I know better.  I always think I am wrong, or scared?or wrong to be scared?whenever someone wants to have contact with me.  It could be someone I have never met who wants to establish a new … Continue reading

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invalid

W3C HTML Validation Service Results.  After an all-nighter on this, I still have miles to go before… whatever comes next.

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Macable?

In my cynical way, I tend to doubt that reworking all the style and positioning elements on these pages has improved the way they display for my mac friends.  But I can hope.  Besides, when I find out (inevitably) that … Continue reading

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all new

This is it.  The Blogger™ version has a new home; /blogger/blog.htm.  You don’t need to change any bookmarks (but if you do, bookmark this.) Gotta go, late as always, more later…  thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou

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DSL, once again

First off, I am just testing my blogThis thingy with Movabletype.  I’m doing it while checking my DSL status.  Yes indeedy, boys and girls, I have succummed again to the enticements of manymanybits.  Last time it was Megapath who fed … Continue reading

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tweak, tweak, tweak

I have been tweaking like a madman, getting all the thousands of style properties just so, adding and renaming selectors, removing them and adding them back again, adjusting declarations and values, screaming, throwing coffee mugs (well, only one), and alternately … Continue reading

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deep link, or die

Terreus has a compelling posting regarding deeplinking, and the beancounters’ and lawyers’ progress toward preventing it.  I say if a site does not want deeplinking, then they should write a script to prevent unauthorized access to their sites.  Otherwise everything … Continue reading

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how to love

Update: success. The [Durham Catholic District School Board] has said it supports Hall’s right to be a homosexual but that it does not support “a homosexual lifestyle.” -from CP article today by Amy Carmichael Of all the hypocrisies of the … Continue reading

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culture of the gun

A Massachusetts State Trooper shot and killed a man who was threatening suicide.  Of course, I wasn’t there, and it does seem too easy to take pot-shots at the cop after the fact, so until today I didn’t.  But today … Continue reading

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Nash recovered without meds

Most Americans are unaware that the World Health Organization (WHO) has repeatedly found that long-term schizophrenia outcomes are much worse in the USA and other ”developed” countries than in poor ones such as India and Nigeria, where relatively few patients … Continue reading

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Mayday, mayday…

Anarchy means “without government” and anarchists believe that people live more fulfilling lives without the coercive pressure of authority. Of course most people don’t trust authority. How many of us have a good word to say for politicians or bosses, … Continue reading

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