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....i just HOPE he lives up to the HYPE.

...and of all the zillions of file photos they have of him, CNN just happened to use this one to accompany the story:


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early this year i was contacted by a Detective from the NYC Department of Environmental Protection, seeking information about one of their former Chiefs, one Lawrence Tierney Sr., my grandfather. he held the position during WW2 back when the Department was known as the NYC Aquaduct Police. here he is, 2nd from the right:


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dear friends,
i am breaking my extended livejournal hiatus to report the following sad news: Gary Gygax is dead. i think that Troll Lord speaks for us all in his post , which i will quote here:

It is almost too much to get my mind about. But I've just had news that our dear Dungeon Master has passed away. Ernie called this morning, he thought we ( Read more... )

so, today i sold my righteous 1975 honda cb750 motorcycle. this marks a transition surpassing the time when i sold my fender stratocaster a few years out of college.


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today is my birthday as an entrepreneur: on september 17th of 2004 i was in the waning days of my career as a staff researcher at UCSB and happened to step into a professor's office to show him the cool web-mapping stuff i was playing with and he said "that's great stuff, have you thought about commercializing it?" the lightbulb came on. i needed ( Read more... )

i haven't been doing much LJ posting lately, but felt that i should at least maintain my tradition of the annual b-day post. i could try to say something poetic or profound about this occasion, but will instead reprint for you here the email i got today from my old college chum, joey, who also just turned 39...

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"Ad hoc, Ad loc, quid pro quo,
So little time, so much to know!"

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