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WELCOME, MY FRIENDS, TO MENDIA
If my friends jumped off a bridge, I’d be flying through midair by now. http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=mendia
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Classic crime authors
Discussing The Grifters on #perl: <mendel> What other authors would one want to check out if one were becoming a fan of, say, Jim Thompson and Raymond Chandler? <Fletch> go to amazon and see what they reccomend. Why ask people about books when you can ask a machine? Argh. So, anyhow, I’ll try with a […]
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Internet radio revisited
Metafilter catalogs the current state of online radio, with a handy list of the stations that have survived the CARP ruling. If you’re like me, you stopped listening to a lot of your favorite net radio stations when they all disappeared a few months ago. A lot of mine have come back, and I’m slowly […]
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time travel
Despite a long day at work, I managed to get through the door at HMV in order to pick up the new Erasure cd Other People’s Songs (released a week or two ago), and the new Massive Attack cd 100th Window (released today — I H4V3 0-D4Y TR4CKZ!!1!oneone). I’m getting this feeling.. I think this […]
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Notebook
A little while ago, I posted about Moleskine notebooks, and noted in the comments section that what I really needed was a Moleskine that wasn’t a Moleskine — I didn’t care about using the same notebook as Hemingway, but I did want something with a lay-flat sewn binding, little elastic strap, pocket in the back, […]
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Cats (and tangentially Girls)
[reading|Jack Kerouac – Big Sur] So now that I have room, I’ve gone and put together some new icons featuring Cat of Cat and Girl. Around the same time, I noticed that one can search the directory by interest, and get back a list of users with their default pictures. I am subtly pleased that […]
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Too hip!
So lately I’ve been rekindling an old interest in muscle cars. But while surfing the web the other day, I got distracted by an article on the AMC Hornet (don’t ask), and started digging around for more Hornet stuff. And then I found this ad: They just don’t make cars that hip anymore.
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So watching all the froofroo in the posting-limits news thread finally convinced me to pay for my LJ account. To those of you wavering on this, I tell you: It is worth the money just to get access to the fast servers. (Also, Stimps points out that that post-limiting thread is a great way to […]