"If you can't make fun of yourself, then you are terrible at making fun of people."
--http://twitter.com/unclesamkent

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Started riding my bike to Alewife. Besides saving a bit of time it's just fun and kinetic.

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To quote a friend, "Another oil rig explosion in the Gulf? Yeesh."

http://www.slate.com/id/2265067/ - the more I know about Max Headroom the more I like.

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Dig the idea of built-in HDR on the iPhone camera. Wonder when/if Canon Powershots will have that (oh, duh, need to check out CHDK firmware replacement, maybe I can get it already)

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I like how Netflix is the whore of streaming now. I can watch on laptop, Wii, PS3, Xbox 360.. yet Apple TV is still tempting.

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Apple Store is now themed with a "fingerprint rainbow" as title backdrops. Like that they're embracing how smudge-y these things get.

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You can't spell "success" without "u"! But in fact, I can't really spell "success" all that well, all those weird "s"s and soft "c"s...

http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/1035451042/fuzzy-little-boy - on old color photos. It is sometimes a bit hard to remember that the world wasn't b+w from 1800-1950 or so, and that old Roman statues were originally in garish colors, not the "classy" monochrome stone colors we now see them in.

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"if you laid all the cups of tea I've ever drunk end to end it'd be a big mess and a terrible waste of tea."
--http://twitter.com/llamasoft_ox

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I'm always weirded out how Photoshop et al crop out transparent pixels when you try and copy and paste- does that feel 'right' to designers?

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Amber's Turkey Meatloaf of Love

http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html - I should a link to this for "mortality for skeptics" ( http://mortals.be )

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The other week I found out my dad sometimes used the family name "Dyke" as a kind of second middle name. Snicker-worthy, but interesting.

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So many headhunters are looking for roles all over the country. Are they just lazy or is there a whole subculture of migrant coders?

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"What is the speed of light? As far as you're concerned, it's nine inches per nanosecond."
--RossumsChild's electrical engineering professor, via this Slashdot story

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Friend Indy's Hypothetical Drink idea -- Gin, Curacao for Blue Coloring, and Peach Rings (Yellow Side Up) -- it's a Gin + Sonic!

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Just watched "The Big Chill" for the first time. Good flick, good soundtrack, good wishing for group of friends that cohesive(ish) and big.

Alien Seed Pods for sale at Fresh Pond Whole Foods under the brand name "Maxixe"

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Nice evening for a Rockport Legion Band concert by the shore! Amber took this next one:

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Eyes are so crazy good at adjusting for your head's movements! Watch yourself in a mirror, shake and bob your head, they stay locked- weird!

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"Improper Bostonian says brine-based garnishes are the new thing."
"Like brine.... shrimp?"
"Dude that's sea monkeys."
"Ew, never mind."
--cmg and me

Web design folks: any statistics on typical browser widths? (as opposed to screen resolutions- people don't always run maximized...)

Finished Runyon. Love the names; Regret, the horseplayer, The Sky, Brandy Bottle Bates, Horse Thief, Sorrowful, even good ol' reliable Nathan Detroit...

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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
--George Bernard Shaw

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"If Sir Mix-A-Lot has taught me anything, it is that the anaconda wants what the anaconda wants."
--http://twitter.com/rstevens

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Wild Turkey at Alewife!

The Misleading World Of Atari 2600 Box Art

Notes synching on iPhone 4 is f'in broken. I lost data - notes WEIRDLY reverting - to a broken "feature" I barely knew I had. Sucks.

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"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
--Frank Zappa

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http://www.slate.com/id/2264312/ - cool piece on Quicksand: it's decline and fall in popculture, and the people who fetishize it...

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I cry a little on the inside when I see a super slow site with a ".jsp" URL. Friendster was the worst. Now Bank of America? Yeesh.

http://kisrael.com/java/ - just updated my java page, mostly KotMK. Man that's a lot!

"Great film makers know how to give us lines to read between."
--http://twitter.com/MrTeller

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http://www.youtube.com/user/CeeLoGreen#p/u/2/CAV0XrbEwNc - Gnarls Barkley returns with an F U kinda song...

http://gizmodo.com/5617755/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked "The color? Always something tacky."

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http://howbigreally.com/ - kind of a neat webapp to overlay big structures historical and present over a map of your zipcode.

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The other night Alewife there was a guy with a Decepticon symbol on one calf, Autobot on the other. C'mon dude, pick a side!

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