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I sent a rant to some of my kooky EFF-Austin associates, elaborated a bit, and posted it here on someone else's recommendation. --- So I consider myself a Wifi evangelist. ("wiff-ee" "Why-Fie" How do YOU say it?) It's actually a greedy motivation:
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Here's a pretty comprehensive gallery of breakfast cereal mascots... ...this proves that when some people have too much time on their hands they manage to create some fascinating little obsessions... And the rest of us benefit from their hard work! So I had pretty successfully repressed Count Chocula
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Insert sound of David Dropping The Ball here, here, and also: here.
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Well. Here we are. Whoops! Yet another blog software change... and this time with a redesign. I'd appreciate your dropping a comment if it looks like things have gone horribly, horribly wrong. Oh, 10 points to the person who can guess what I'm holding in that
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The first step is to do an assessment and gap analysis. I think the next step is to get it in fighting shape, eh?
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Yeah. My RSS feeds are all screwy… I’m about to flip the switch on another blog migration… should make it all SMOOTH. I’ll provide a full-listing feed, headline/snippet feed, archive feed, topic feeds, and any other feed you’d enjoy. Blah. I’m SO a geek.
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Uhmmm… is anyone else concerned about the sun going supernova on us?
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Happy Halloween! Tonight, my parents are coming in and I'll be enjoying my evening of passing out that awful, strawberry candy to children and watching Criss Angel on SciFi... (definitely an influence of the robot aesthetic)
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My working definition of "passion": Passion is that thing you finally get to do when you come home, exhausted from your day job. It's relentless, systemic tweaking, hour after hour, long after the rest of the world gave up on the day. Your passion commits paradigm
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I spent my Saturday being a referee (not fun when you make bad calls, incidentally) for a very cool robotic competition for students: Capitol Best. The contest was non-combative (although there was definitely some bumping and locking arms)... it boiled down to moving balloons around a ring... Balloons.. with robots.
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There’s something about her orange, metallic head, rubber chicken looking legs, or bright, blue eyes that makes Belinda very attractive to cats. Amy was so very kind to send an utterly side-splitting 5-panel story which almost had me peeing my pants… It is titled, "She’s in critical
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I reread this post right before sending it, and I can’t tell how obnoxious it might be… so apologies in advance if it’s arrogant, obnoxious, or both. okay. tonight was very cool. After a very pleasant dinner with Adina and Chip (Thank you, you two… it was very