it's been a long time since i updated here!

I'm quite certain that NBC didn't mean well when they ousted Mike Gravel from tomorrow's debate, with their new and arbitrary requirements for participants. I think it's pretty clear they want a lobbyist-funded, "mainstream" candidate to win ( Read more... )

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The landscape of the suburban night has much weird beauty if you just look.

-- Neal Stephenson, in Snow CrashBoy, is that true tonight in Fountain Hills. I wanted to listen to some music but realized that the CD I wanted to listen to was at work, a mile from where I live. Fountain Hills is a dark city. In much of the town there are no streetlights ( Read more... )

...but it wasn't on the subway map.

I installed LogJam on my Linux box and I'm going to start posting again. Why? I want to start writing about travel experiences, things I have learned in life, and stories and poems I enjoy.

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Tonight, after watching TV with some buds, I decided to head over to Denny's with the intention of finally satisfying my month-long on-and-off craving for a Grasshopper Pie Shake ( Read more... )

My Distributed Systems class has been cancelled by the instructor four times in a row. First day, "to pack" for his conference. Second and third days, at the conference. Fourth day (today), "I ate something that did not agree with me ( Read more... )

Wal-Mart to skirt size limit by building side-by-side storesI'm disgusted, but not really surprised. While watching our city government try to keep Super Wal-mart from Flagstaff, I've really noticed how well they fight fire with fire. Hundreds of conservatives in Flagstaff and the surrounding towns have come out in support of Wal-Mart - in public ( Read more... )