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today on the plane I started reading Imperial San Francisco. It's not for the faint of heart. more later...

geetings from Nebraska! (there's snow here)

greetings from Blogger 2.0! (no longer beta)

I'm worried that I might be suffering from hypochondria.

those hilarious reruns of the Simpsons you've been watching every day aren't complete. and that bothers me. I want maximum hilarity, damnit.

Salon: ""Ugo Ugo Ruuga" ("Go Go Girl," jumbled up), an infamously hallucinogenic kid's show of the early '90s, featured a pointy-headed excretum that emerged from the toilet and spouted Western philosophy." they are so advanced in Japan. [via offhand]

Possible Band Name: pressing cynthia's buttons. [thanks, matt]

I would just like to affirm that everything you believe is true.

I saw many, many meteors last night. No wine involved! You can still catch them tonight.

companies should not be able to patent ubiquitous internet/software technologies. No matter how much money they have. I like this question that Pierre Sarrazin asked of Unisys: "do you agree that an algorithm is equivalent to a theorem, in the sense that for example, the Pythagorean theorem can be considered as an algorithm to find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle?" Their answer: "We do not agree or disagree with your statement regarding the relationship between an algorithm and a theorem."

I'm so happy that megnut posted something just for me. hehe. now i can breathe again.

Word of the Day: gestalt - a structure, configuration, or pattern of physical, biological, or psychological phenomena so integrated as to constitute a functional unit with properties not derivable by summation of its parts.