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ascii art motd funs

Here’s a small quicktime movie of my server’s current message of the day (250 KB). I’m headed to PA in a few hours to hang out with the fam for a week. Unemployed for about 2 months now, and it’s … Continue reading

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owwie

Seattle, WA has more elevation changes than Cupertino, CA. Last thursday, while riding my bike home from 15th (capitol hill), I hit a huge pot hole while going downhill, kinda fast. Front wheel went down in it – loud metallic … Continue reading

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Now accepting applications

https://jobs-prz.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=5997&CurrentPage=1 If you know any hot to trot mac server geeks, this would be a good job. Though I’m intentionally vacating it for reasons including “I don’t want to do it anymore”, I would still recommend it as a good … Continue reading

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Thomas Dolby

Saw Thomas Dolby last night at the Little Fox Theater in Redwood city. First set was solo, and included a bit of storytelling along with the tunes. Second set included the Jazz Mafia Horns, which worked out surprisingly well. Lots … Continue reading

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the rushbot

On the 10/30 Colbert Report, there was a segment about Rush Limbaugh who was recently claiming that Michael J Fox was exaggerating his Parkinson’s disease and ‘shilling for a Democrat politician’ in a series of TV ads for stem cell … Continue reading

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This seems important enough.

If Clinton can get impeached for a blowjob, I would think that Bush can get nailed for illegal wiretapping. Oh fancy that, you mean congress is trying to slide through a vote to pardon the president!?! How could THAT happen?!?!?! … Continue reading

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Get this

This one right here. $30. it’s a blast :) don’t get the jet, it’s too fast. biplane = a nice leasurely flight. you probably won’t, for example, get it lost very high in a tree next to the parking lot … Continue reading

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Allow me to formally introduce yet another new blog on the Internet: The Bits is just a stupidly generic name for a place where I can put all my borish geeky stuff. From the about page: In this blog, you … Continue reading

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WWDC and whatnot

WWDC ’06. Yep. Of course the content is all confidential, but you may have already seen the keynote. I worked the Enterprise IT lab for a few sessions this year, as I did last year. This year I also managed … Continue reading

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vacation notes

I recently went to PA for a family gathering; mom came up from FL, my brother came out from Seattle, and all the people who live out that way. Impossible to get *everybody*, but we did ok. Flew out on … Continue reading

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