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April 2004 |
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Wednesday,
April 28, 2004 |
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Kiltron sent an email around the office linking an eBay auction for a
wedding dress. It is being sold by the ex-husband, a big, burly
guy. He actually put it on to show it in all its glory and
splendor.
Of course, numerous interoffice cross-dressing jokes soon followed, with these
being followed by my admission of my childhood and one particular task
I had to do.
My mother was a commercial artist for Simplicity and
McCall's. She drew the women on the front of the pattern
packages. They would often send her the dresses for
reference.
Guess who had to wear them so she could see how the
fabric folded and fit on a real body?
The one thing I remember most was thinking, even at that
single-digit age, how glad I was that I wasn't a girl!
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Tuesday,
April 27, 2004 |
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I miss Boris Yeltsin, ...what
happened to him?
He was like a freaky combination of Washington and Lincoln,
...doused
in vodka,
...AND he wasn't afraid to let the id out.
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Monday,
April 26, 2004 |
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Bootstrapped by the Brainiaks!
Just watched a cool show about space and time and gravity and black
holes and the fabric of it all. They used that familiar 2D grid with weighted
balls pressing on it to explain the bending of space by mass, and the weird attraction
mass has for itself.
You know the one - there's a heavy ball in the middle, representing
the mass of a star or black hole, and smaller balls circling about in curved
paths. The paths being curved by the "warping" sink hole of the
normally flat 2D grid...
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...but, wait a second! ...the smaller balls are being curved by
what I know as gravity in this
representation! I mean, isn't gravity being explained to me by
using a picture of gravity, in some useless bootstrapping explanation?
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Wednesday,
April 21, 2004 |
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Janitor Bob,
you're my
fucking hero!
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Tuesday,
April 20, 2004 |
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Is it just me that thinks games are getting a bit too complicated
these days?
I mean, a return to the basics may be best, ...the
simpler times, when games were pure and gameplay more fun!
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Thursday,
April 15, 2004 |
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The eyes have it!
...I'm not sure I'm complaining, although I
suspect my frontal lobes, the section of brain up front and with,
supposedly, all the real power, are a bit pissed at my visual cortex,
which occupies the lowest and backmost section of the brain. It
seems that most of my decision-making happens way in the back there.
My cell phone bit the dust a week ago. So I'm online looking
for a replacement. Click on a page and a list of cell phones is
displayed, with pictures and descriptive text.
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What is the first
parameter to be measured as I search? ...the coolest looking
phone. Not the features or even the price, but I am already
making selections based solely on the visual properties of the phones.
Same with cars, and CDs, and product packaging, and, of course, women.
Just about everything has to pass the visual test first, then come the
properties that should actually be important.
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Monday,
April 12, 2004 |
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Wow!
...sometimes things just seem to come together, ...like it all
has a plan or something.
Absolut just released a new vodka called, ...drum roll, please...
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