It was election night.  I was driving across town to drop off my mail-in ballot that I hadn't gotten mailed.  Curtis Mayfield's People Get Ready came on the radio and it struck me as profoundly apt to the night ( Read more... )

• 19:57 Artificially intelligent avatars will never be a match for naturally stupid ones #
• 21:05 Restoring my soul with Sidney Bechet and King Oliver #

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• 19:55 I retract my last twitter, I shall soon indulge in an iphone and bid farewell to the sidekick #

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It was 1 pm.

My shoelace had come untied.  I lifted my foot to my knee to tie my shoelace.  Something looked amiss with my pant leg.  Why could I see the hem I pondered.

Because I had my slacks on inside out.

And that's all I have to say about that.

If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place, just because they exist, & who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal

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The reunion scene still makes me cry...my 6th grade teacher, Mrs. Adams, read us all the Born Free books and they left a lasting impression.

7 1/2 years of LJ has been backed up to my Tinyboxes Wordpress blog:

http://www.tinyboxes.com/boxblog/I had, at some point in the past, started to import my old pre-LJ online journal entries, which date from Dec 97.  I actually had an online journal of one sort or another since 1995, but they were sporadic and on various geocities pages (back when ( Read more... )

People would add her on Facebook


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Decide not to take your “sleep better” pill because you have the next 4 days off ( Read more... )

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