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Monthly Archives: February 2005

Rio Karma fun with bugs!

23-Feb-05

So I have my new mp3 player.
The thing is bad ass. Not very pretty, but it’s awesome. I transfered all the music from my windows machine as soon as I got it, because I was too lazy and too busy to learn how to get it working in linux. which [...]

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Rio Karma in Ubuntu

22-Feb-05

So I have my new mp3 player.
The thing is bad ass. Not very pretty, but it’s awesome. I transfered all the music from my windows machine as soon as I got it, because I was too lazy and too busy to learn how to get it working in linux. which [...]

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Fun with cooking!!

20-Feb-05

I discovered by accident today that I can cook soup from scratch. Here’s how it happened:
I wanted a bacon-egg-ranch sandwich, but I didn’t want to clean up a frying pan full of grease, so I decided to try boiling the bacon and poaching the eggs (for fun. plus boiled stuff is less fatty than [...]

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New toy!

17-Feb-05

I just bought this. Kicks ipod in the BALLS. Ogg and flac support… ethernet connectivity. super-human flexibility and the power of hawtness. It’s 20GBs of hawtness.
yes baby yes.

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NE and QoTD

15-Feb-05

Quote of the Day:
Gav (7:53): I am complex like a centipede–many, many redundant simple parts.
*sigh* Trying to write a stupid paper… gawd. this is hard. Ridiculous how difficult it is to write a paper that I am actually interested in. Or… maybe I’m interested in it because it’s challenging. Maybe [...]

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Holy Crap Lions Tours!

12-Feb-05

And the Holy Shit Quote of the Day is:
“To naturalize epistemology is to acknoledge that we need to study how actual people actually know (and) one thing we ought to know about actual people is that they inhabit a world of systematic inequality…” (Naomi Scheman, 1993. Quoted in Clough, Hypatia… issue no. ??)
Whoo hoo! [...]

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keigo in english… hehe. oh boy.

08-Feb-05

I cringe every time I read an email between my friends on our mutual club-related listserv when it reads something like “Thanks Jim. It looks very complete. I look forward to talking with you about it on Wednesday!”
Gahh! It just sounds so … I don’t know. so keigo. So, over-polite. so.. so much [...]

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j-faces and an ode to Arya

07-Feb-05

I love arya. yes I do.
he helped me fix fink and helped me figure out python version problems. :) and now in 40 minutes or so, I’ll discover if Zope will FINALLY be happy with me and bloody install.
*hugs arya*
and then we spent about 5 minutes doing this:
arya (9:58):

へ　へ
　し
ーー
me (9:59): that’s so cute!
hahahaha

へ　へ
　し
[...]

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