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Please join us. We'd love to see you at our event next week! Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 Location: 2003 Opal Divine's in Austin (6th and Rio Grande) RSVP: Please RSVP by sending email to rsvp@effaustin.org. Please help spread the word to your friends
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So I'm a little frustrated that there's this pervasive thought among the hipsters that spending money on things, especially on "Black Friday" is a great sin against humanity. (among these naysayers are the same hipsters, by the way, that have no problem at all
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This definitely falls into the "what I had for cereal" category of blog entries, but I need to grease the wheels a bit to get back into consistent writing... I went on a bike ride with Steve and two of his friends (who were on a tandem). It
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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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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
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This entry is more of an experiment for me, so move along if it’s uninteresting, please. I had a late night dinner with Adina last night after the sparsely attended EFF-A board meeting and I mentioned I had trouble articulating the issues & problems around evoting machines so I
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Please join EFF-Austin and ACLU-TX for a discussion about homeland security and government surveillance policies in Texas, led by Scott Henson of ACLU-TX. Date: October 2, 7pm Venue: Ventana Del Soul Address: 1834 E. Oltorf, Oltorf and Burleson Directions: Oltorf Exit off I35; head east on Oltorf Food: Ventana sells
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Don pointed out something to me last night that made me very sad. A few weeks ago, Chip‘s cat died. It was one of the few personal experiences Chip wrote about and it was very touching. So like most other blogs, these days, I read Chip’s blog via