tags: responding to internal stimuli
2003
June
- 2003 Jun 4
- Responding to Internal Stimuli
Seriously. The next time something like this happens, I need you to take a brick to my head. I mean it.
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August
- 2003 Aug 14
- first post!
Abandoning my kludgy homebrew blogging system and adopting Blosxom
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- second post!
Not particularly edifying
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- marmosets
A very strange dream
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- my adventures with apache
Enabling virtual hosts on Jaguar (10.2)
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- keychain – always allow
Annoying dialog boxes
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- and then the morning comes
Talking about religion while inebriated. A loaded comparison between Roman Catholicism and Buddhism. The dangers of drunk-dialing.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 16
- sbc ameritech dns servers
In case you need them, although I imagine it would be difficult to navigate the Internet in the first place without setting your DNS server.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 16
- how to add writebacks
Allowing comments on Blosxom 2. (Likely seriously outdated - ed. note 2008.01.02)
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 17
- an exercise in the commoditization of culture
If you have a tatoo that consists of Chinese characters, or of kanji/kana, you should at least know what it says. Nothing says “tool” like having a tatoo you can’t read. And white people better start learning to tell Asians apart. Because there better not be another internment if Kim Jong-Il goes a little nuts.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 17
- notes on remotedotcomments
Making Blogger and remotedotcomments play nice. The dangers of not quoting properly.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 17
- dhtml lemmings
Reminiscing about playing Versus Lemmings on the Commodore Amiga. Now it’s just a Java applet you can run in your browser.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 17
- pervasive advertising
Philip K Dick predicts the future once again. The first application of pervasive computing is going to be—you guessed it—advertising
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 17
- a definition of existentialism
The Camusian variant. Maybe not the most optimistic guy in the world.
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- 2003 Aug 18
- blog wars
Flame wars move from Usenet to the blogosphere
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- divine intervention
Procrastination is like masturbation. It’s a lot of fun until you realize you’re only screwing yourself. Someone needs to save me from myself. Seriously.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 21
- something good is gonna happen
Finding mp3 blogs. Kate Bush “Cloudbusting”. Utah Saints “Something Good is Gonna Happen”
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 21
- airport (802.11b/g)
Discovering the beginnings of pervasive/ubiquitous computing, and the wi-fi revolution.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 22
- kid a by radiohead
My interpretation of this awesome song.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 22
- splattered
Blood, sterile technique, and mortality.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 22
- dream academy "life in a northern town"
These days, I’ll catch some of the lyrics of a song, and I’ll just type them into Google, and voilà! This is the song that was sampled for Dario G’s “Sunchyme”
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- quotes from "the simpsons"
Homer Simpson is my hero.
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- more quotes from "the simpsons"
Moe Szyslak has a way with words.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 23
- embedded markup considered harmful
Back in the day when the specs were new, RSS was atrocious, and no one could parse it. One of the things that caused aggregators to choke was embedded markup. Although in all honesty, I never did understand what the problem was.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 23
- the gender genie
A little script that supposedly is able to tell the gender of the author of a scrap of text.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 23
- to all the girls i've loved before
OK, I admit it. I’m a Julio Iglesias fan. Somehow, a few of his songs have gotten attached to some of my recurring dreams. And somehow Unreal City—this bizarre amalgam of L.A., Chicago, and NYC—keeps popping up in my dreams, too.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 24
- pool and blackjack
A dream about chance, wagers, and Charles Bronson.
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- interpolate_pseudoxml
A plugin for Blosxom that makes it just a tad easier to use an XML editor to work on your templates.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 24
- interpolate_pseudoxml revisited
I take back what I said about my interpolate plugin. Or rather, let me qualify what I said.
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- unordered lists and css
Styling unordered lists
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- bits and pieces
Fixing the
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- windows is insecure
The sobig.f debacle. I can’t believe people actually trust their data with Windows.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 25
- radiohead "the bends"
Reviewing one of the best, and most underrated albums by Radiohead
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 26
- wifi everywhere
Pervasive/ubiquitous computing on the way
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- http_get
plugin to arbitrarily pull any content from the Internet. Likely to cause time outs and heavy load on your shared host.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 26
- med school fear of blood desensitize
This Google query leads to an old blog entry. Despite dealing with bleeding literally almost every single day, I’m still not immune from syncopizing from a vasovagal reaction at the sight of my own blood.
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- www.bogusmove.com
Via trails.
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- duderesearch.com
More via trails.
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- trainedmonkey.com
And more via trails.
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- even more simpson quotes
Choice quotes from
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- running amok
I've been meaning to riff of off this blog entry about suicide. Maybe the timing is bad, considering that some guy just shot up six of his coworkers before offing himself [Chicago Tribune article][ABC News], but, as Michael Moore documents in "Bowling for Columbine", this sort of thing shouldn't be surprising.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 27
- time
Y2K was a bust, but maybe Y2K+38 will be something quite unexpected. No one seems to be in a rush to adopt 64-bit time stamps.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 28
- memes and the arrow of time
A meditation on the not-quite cyclic nature of time, and how both the linear and circular models of time may be correct simultaneously. Soundtrack: “Clocks” by Coldplay and “Time after Time” by Cyndi Lauper
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- gun shy
I was robbed! Seriously!
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- more bits and pieces
Links to things that might be helpful in setting up a website.
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- temporarily back in business
Continuing to have problems with Blosxom and
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- crazedmonkey.com
Via trail. How to make Blosxom serve static pages sometimes and dynamic pages other times.
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- pathetique
Man, it sucks to be alone when you’re trying to stave off PTSD.
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- cgi working
Blosxom seems to be working now. I think.
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- counting crows "rain king"
A song from back in the day. But the album it’s coming from is fitting: August and Everything After.
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- futurama quote
A quote from Bender the Bending Robot
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- nelson.monkey.org
How to keep Blosxom from getting hammered.
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September
- 2003 Sep 1
- end stage soul disease
Playing with categories in Blosxom.
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- movie watch
“Gigli”, “Excess Baggage”.
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- targetted advertising
Now, I don't know if this is really targeted advertising, but the ads on amazon.com do tend to shadow whatever it is I have purchased or I have searched for, for example Basic Flight Physiology, given my recent obsession with space medicine.
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- brain excrement
Random thoughts. Thinking of sci-fi, and not movies or music.
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- a7 "piece of heaven (central seven remix)"
This song makes me think of Robotech.
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- sick in the head
Moments of triumph only remind me of how lonely I am. Great.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 4
- google is god reprised
Google is omnipresent, and rapidly becoming omniscient. And nothing will be the same.
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- september
September and the end of summer. Taking a moment to look ahead.
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- processing
Is the relationship between Processing and Java the exact relationship between Logo and Lisp?
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 6
- for fuck's sake by robert lasner
A book about pursuing women. My life is exactly like this book, except I don’t have any of the sex.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 6
- stackable iPods
We should be able to daisy chain iPods and create a RAID array. Or at least have Logical Volume Management.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 7
- elliptical comments on mass amateurisation
We’ve got cheap hardware and free software. All we need is wi-fi everywhere, and we’re on our way to ubiquitous computing. Microsoft is missing the boat. Apple is the wave of the future. Democracy is all about “Worse is Better,” and not “The Right Thing™”.
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- the man in the high castle
What if the Axis won?
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- lists and positioning
Neat things you can do with unordered lists and CSS.
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- mp3s and spam
Wanted: mp3s. Not wanted: spam.
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- star raiders
Reminiscing about an Atari 400 game.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 9
- retrograde consolidation
A follow-up to my elliptical comments on mass amateurisation(sic). The original browser wars had the indirect effect of pushing back the envelope. While we have rich media such as Flash, what most of us end up publishing is essentially plain text. (OK, it’s technically HTML, and it’s usually Unicode and not ASCII, but you get the picture.) But plain text will always win in terms of portability and in terms of compactness. Which makes me think of other technology that has gone backwards a bit: MIDI ringtones, NASA’s renewed interest in Apollo space capsules.
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- more about retrograde consolidation
On the other hand, plain text is more expensive to process than, let’s say, binary code. But thanks to Moore’s Law, it ain’t a problem. My phone is over 100x more powerful than the first computer I ever owned. In this day, interpreted languages (more fashionably known as dynamically typed languages) are back in the fore. Thanks to advances in bandwidth, in particular, wireless bandwidth, non-lossy audio compression is becoming a reasonable format to download songs in. But the reliance on plain text has the additional side effect of increased openness: it’s much easier to reverse engineer a plain text spec than it is to try to disassemble opcodes.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 9
- the tower of babble
The Babelfish Game: take a phrase in English, convert it through multiple languages, then change it back to English, and see what you get. (See the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for the original reference to the mythological Babelfish.) Natural selection in action? A demonstration on how false vacuum can decay into true vacuum?
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 12
- blessings in disguise
So-called intellectual property is no hindrance to the Internet. It’s very Taoist in a way. Whatever does not yield to the Internet, the Internet merely routes around. Hence, instead of a myriad of proprietary rich media technologies, we’ve got open standards such as CSS and XHTML.
The RIAA pursues a losing strategy. As they say, those who cannot innovate, litigate. While the iTunes Music Store ain’t exactly a clean break from the old model of music distribution, the fact that you can (for the most part) buy just singles (and not just the crappy singles that the music companies allow to be released) is in itself an innovation.
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- 27 - Part I
Drunk blogging to “Piggy” by Nine Inch Nails on eternal repeat. One of these days, I hope to get through life better than just barely.
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- 27 - Part II
After 25, it’s all down-hill. Still don’t know where I’m going to end up, though. The event horizon known as the big 3-0 looms ahead. And sometimes I get the feeling that all the important decisions have already been made. It’s just a matter of riding it all out.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 14
- itunes_playlist
A kludgy way to incorporate my playlist into Blosxom.
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- scattered thoughts
Random things I found on the web:
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- retrograde consolidation revisited
What I’m trying to say with retrograde consolidation: instead of using new software on new hardware, let’s use old software on new hardware. Examples:
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- gorillaz "m1 a1"
A song that makes me think about zombie attacks. (I’m thinking of “28 Days Later”, “Resident Evil”, “Shaun of the Dead”, “Silent Hill”, or “Omega Man”)
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- 27 – third time pays for all
Reminiscing on a night spent getting blasted out of my mind.
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- outkast "hey ya"
Shake it like a Polaroid picture!
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- chrono_nav
“Link to previous article” and “link to next article” for Blosxom.
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- r kelly has a way with words
R Kelly sympathizes with Osama bin Laden.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 17
- the xhtml 2 debate
XHTML 2 is deliberately breaking backwards-compatibility and the Web screams. I don’t know why people are so addicted to backwards-compatibility. If you use open-source and open-specs, then there’s nothing to worry about. Some clever hackers will implement the new stuff, and you can move on. Or you go without, and adhere to the old specs, and compile the old source. I mean, there are systems still running Linux 2.2 out there after all.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 18
- the simpsons go to africa
My favorite quote from the Simpsons’ episode ”Simpson Safari”
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 19
- blogging – a retrospective
Rebecca Blood is one of the original A-listers on the blogosphere, back before Blogger even existed, and you pretty much had to roll your own blog engine. Going backwards in time on the blogosphere always ends up causing me to go far and wide as well, though, and I find myself in very strange corners of the web.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 20
- buying stuff
Shopping. Getting immersed in wi-fi. Screwing around with Bluetooth. Getting Amazon.com on Blosxom.
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- amazon_buybox
The code for getting Amazon.com on a Blosxom weblog
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- underworld and neverwhere
And Harry Potter, now that you mention it. It always seems that supernatural worlds have portals in the London Underground, doesn’t it?
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 22
- adventures in print serving
Using CUPS to print to the Canon i850 through a print server.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 23
- galileo and the last day of summer
The Galileo space probe meets its end in the atmosphere of Jupiter. The [last day of summer][x1] always leaves me [cold][x2] [x1]: /2001/09/22/the-last-day-of-summer “The Last Day of Summer • 2001 Sep 22 • Foobar” [x2]: /2001/09/30/last-days “Last Days • 2001 Sep 30 • Foobar”
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- i think there's something wrong with me
Any moment of triumph crumbles quickly into despair. This may very well kill me some day.
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- 2003 Sep 25
- genius and insanity
Ordered chaos. Deliberate, orchestrated disorder. A quote from Charles Bukowski that backs me up. At least that’s what I tell myself. I may very well be a super genius, or a nascent schizophrenic.
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- ass monkey disease
Seasonal affective disorder kicks my ass all the time.
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- i don't buy it
The only reason to not write standards-compliant code is sheer laziness. Everything can be rewritten given enough effort.
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- maybe god doesn't like you
Homer Simpson sympathizes with God and understands why the Flood had to happen.
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- insomnia
One of the symptoms of major depressive disorder. Despite the fact that things are going OK, I still can’t seem to pick myself off from the ground.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 27
- i swear i'm not crazy
I don't know about this (see the second to the last paragraph.) I think that, over time, irrational behavior is increasingly irrational, and rational behavior becomes irrational. (Entropy always wins.) In the end, it's all meaningless chaos. Or as Douglas Adams put it (in my quite oblique interpretation of his quote):
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- time travelin'
Back in the Bay Area. I’m like a ghost sifting through memories trapped in amber. I figure that I’m going to be alone for the rest of my life, but maybe that won’t be for very long. But trust is a prerequisite for love, so that’s clearly not going to happen. Having too much time on my hands is a good way for me to get into trouble. After seven years, the sting is starting to wear off, but it still stings. The less you have, the more you worry you’ll lose it.
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October
- 2003 Oct 8
- enneagram
I love personality tests.
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- the fragility of life
As I lie here in a hotel room bed, watching my brother, my sister, and my sister's boyfriend sleep as the sun slowly creeps over the horizon, I am content.
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- everything must change
Nothing ever stays the same.
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- vigil
Again, what is it that I want?
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- firestorms of the fall
I made it back to L.A. yesterday, after a mostly uneventful trip through the Central Valley, despite my surprising lack of bladder control (I will speak no more of this.) Along the way, I noticed fire trucks from various sections of Northern California—Palo Alto, Fairfield, Vacaville, Monterey, to name a few—heading down the I-5, and getting off at California 58, most likely on their way to provide backup for those fighting the incredible blaze in the San Bernardino Mountains, which eventually cut off the I-15 running through the Cajon Pass.
· Read more… - 2003 Oct 30
- to wish impossible things
I couldn't sleep last night, tossing and turning every which way. Maybe it's because of not taking my medication until mid-day. Maybe it's the smoke in the air. Maybe it's the fact that there are a lot of things I need to get done that I haven't yet done.
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November
December
- 2003 Dec 5
- the way
I have been embroiled in a flame war regarding, of all things, Taoism in, of all places, the Alibata Yahoo! Group. Which is remarkably synchronous with my ruminations regarding Ursula K. Le Guin, whose works are pretty much infused with Taoism, and who wrote a poetic interpretation of the Tao Te Ching as well. The at-times rancorous exchange has gotten my mind back on the Tao, and how I really should get to finishing reading all those different translations that I've started, and how, ever since my crisis of faith, precipitated by September 11 and the Catholic Church's abysmal handling of the child molestation charges, the only thing I've really had any faith in is the Way.
· Read more… - 2003 Dec 15
- iBook saga continues
I miss blogging. Of course, lately I have very little to blog about, what with my life completely subsumed with my internal medicine subinternship, and interviews with med/peds residency programs, but, frankly, I'm beginning to feel pretty mentally constipated.
· Read more… - 2003 Dec 18
- getting my kicks on route 66
I am currently in Amarillo, TX. I actually chose this hotel I'm at precisely because they have in-room Internet access. How geeky is that.
· Read more… - 2003 Dec 23
- i'm not dying, i just can't think of anything else better to do
it's like i've been in a coma ever since i arrived in l.a. on saturday. it is now tuesday and i couldn't really tell you what i've been doing the past few days. excepting sleeping. i've been averaging about 16-18 hours of sleep these past few days. my dad is convinced that i have infectious mononucleosis. i do have swollen lymph nodes and unremitting malaise and fatigue. but no pharyngitis.
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2004
January
- 2004 Jan 4
- chasing my tail
Random thoughts on this Feast of the Epiphany:
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- words
eventually, it's all a game
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shuffling numbers through gates
and pulses of lightning
through arborized tangles -
- 2004 Jan 11
- grease the wheels
"gotta grease the wheels of the economy to keep it running"
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my communist sister declaimed sarcastically as she bought
that new outfit with money that she didn't have
earned from the job that she hadn't been offerred
the paycheck that she wasn't given for the 4 hours of work she did each day
putting it on in full view of the banner of che guevarra
hanging on her bedroom wall - 2004 Jan 20
- words like fallen leaves
now is the depth of winter
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when the heart mourns for warmer days
when the sun hides behind the swirling clouds
and light plays games with the fog and the shadows
teasing with the bone-chilling brightness
and the darkness comes before you expect it
gaping like the black abyss
and the neverending fall - 2004 Jan 22
- spirit
ever burning flame
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searing rays of light
eastern sky afire
I turn and turn and turn
only the sun tells me where I stand
casting my shadow hither and thither - 2004 Jan 27
- fire and ice
flat lands, icy waste
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curling smoke, steam rising
the city breathes in, breathes out
like a sleeping dragon
February
- 2004 Feb 2
- lily white
spill your secret to me
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creeping shadows, and the evil that lurks in the night
that makes the dogs bark in fear
with their tails between their legs
the hooded man without a face
stealing innocence - 2004 Feb 9
- lost (en las calles de los angeles)
what follows is an unmanageable, undecipherable piece of mind-blather that fails to encapsulate the inexplicable sense of alienation I experienced today, wandering aimlessly through the streets of the city of my birth
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- personality disorders and levels of hell
I found these tests through R's site, and this is what I got:
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March
- 2004 Mar 1
- quirkyalone: why fight it?
When this meme came out, I tried to resist it for the longest time. For one thing, I automatically resist things that I perceive (rightly or wrongly) to be trendy. For another thing, I didn't quite want to give up. I wanted to believe that, deep down inside, I was just like other people, I just needed to figure a whole bunch of shit out, I just needed to break out of my shell, get over past betrayals, stop wishing for impossible things. That someday, I too would join the great chain of being, get a decent job, get married, have 2.5 kids, have grandkids, and on-and-on. What a lot of people like to call "normalcy," whatever that's supposed to mean.
· Read more… - 2004 Mar 2
- the rain
As a coda to my rant and rave about my love life (or, more accurately, the lack thereof), I have these bits and pieces of lyrics to pop music floating through my head:
· Read more… - 2004 Mar 16
- the beauty of being in between
I think I've too deeply internalized Zeno's Paradox. I am all about trying (and failing) to cover an infinite amount of distance in a finite amount of time—in less arcane terms, I have developed a perverse taste for the feeling of going nowhere fast.
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- 2004 Mar 27
- hope
Dum spiro, spero
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April
- 2004 Apr 9
- virtual hosts and cgi
I had this working before, mostly with the help of this script [citation on macosxhints.com][post on patrickgibson.com] Because of my iBook mishaps, all my tweaks were wiped, and I haven't had the time to reinstate the changes.
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May
- 2004 May 11
- a wrinkle in time
I haven't thought about this book in a long time, despite the number of ideas it spawned within my addled brain, and despite the bizarre synchronicity swirling around this particular point in spacetime.
· Read more… - 2004 May 30
- hope (or the lack thereof)
"Hope!?" X spluttered, anger and confusion mingled. "Don't tell me about hope!"
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December
- 2004 Dec 1
- song
the light the rain, the spilt shifting sand and lightning fog
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like ripe blossoms dessicated
by the desert's furnace winds withering breath
2005
January
- 2005 Jan 25
- masochism
On R's advice (as you can see, I am very suggestible), I headed up to the Central Coast and am hanging around Cambria and vicinity (which includes such places as Cayucos, San Simeon, Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo, Atascadero, Templeton, and Paso Robles, among others.) Mostly, I just want to stare at the sea. (There is clearly something very wrong with me.)
· Read more… - 2005 Jan 25
- how the story ends
So I finished reading through most of the e-mail I sent to N when we broke up. It's kind of funny to be reading just half the conversation and yet still getting the full emotional impact without knowing what the response was.
· Read more… - 2005 Jan 26
- executive dysfunction syndrome
it's bizarre how they pretty much have a name for everything, how it has become fashionable to call every little personality quirk a syndrome.
· Read more… - 2005 Jan 26
- Atascadero and back
I realized that I didn't have my charger for my phone (I swear I brought it with me) so I had to go and get one. This required me to go inland.
· Read more… - 2005 Jan 27
- time runs out
Currently Playing: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Original Soundtrack
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February
- 2005 Feb 6
- stress ulcers
it is 9:30pm, and I have to be awake again in 6½ hours, and I basically pissed away an entire weekend off.
· Read more… - 2005 Feb 26
- ineptitude
He arrived at the club two hours late, hamstrung by his own scatter-mindedness, without any real hope that he would still find her there. But he headed out anyway into the night, amidst the teeming swarms of barhoppers and thrillseekers. There was a time when he would have revelled in the illicit goings-on of the night, the whoring and the drug-dealing, the generalized debauchery. But in this strange place, he only felt desolate, having been gone too long from this lifestyle.
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March
- 2005 Mar 3
- red shifting galaxies
I came home today all-of-the-sudden completely fried. I'm working in yet another different place, and once again went through the rigors of the First Day™ The day went surprisingly, swimmingly well (as they say.) But as soon as I got home, I crashed on the couch and curled up into a fetal position.
· Read more… - 2005 Mar 23
- lost and spent
Another day off pissed away. Not to mention a couple hundred flushed down a couple dollar slot machines.
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May
- 2005 May 2
- what are words for?
(if you are a child of the '80's, and/or a fan the erstwhile Flashback Lunch on KROQ with Richard Blade, you will recognize that the title of this blog entry is stolen from some song lyrics.)
· Read more… - 2005 May 2
- what are words for? (before the tangent)
OK, I got distracted there from what I was trying to say. The reason why I scraped this fragmented lyric from the inside of my brain is because I am musing on something a girl once wrote me, a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
· Read more… - 2005 May 11
- what you do for love
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· Read more… - 2005 May 27
- pause
I sunk into a depressive mood this afternoon. Maybe it's just adrenalitis or something. All of the sudden I was exhausted despite it not being a strenuous day at all. The stress of the past 11 months, especially of the last four, has finally caught up to me, and, frankly, I want nothing more than to pass out saturated by tequila catching some sunlight on the beach.
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September
- 2005 Sep 11
- catch up
a lot of crazy, fucked up shit has gone on in the past three months since I fell off the blogosphere (and, remarkably, none of them have anything to do with unrequited love, for once.)
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- 29
Uugh. Hard drive crashes. Very sucky. My iBook lies on a Apple-certified repairer's workbench. The hard drive is actually no longer the problem, since I successfully tore open the plastic case, unscrewed 30-40 screws, popped off the aluminum shielding, took out the clattering 40 GB factory-installed hard drive, and popped in a fresh 100 GB 2.5" hard drive from (you guessed it) Fry's Electronics. The iBook actually works OK. The problem is that (1) I've managed to render the CD-RW non-functional and (2) the latch has snapped off, so that the laptop fails to close. I won't even mention the lack of audio. I had accidentally torn out the wires that connect to the built-in speakers. (I had also accidentally torn out the wires that connect to the power switch.) I managed to fix the power switch, but since I didn't want to go screwing around trying to figure out which wire was live and which wire was ground, I just remnants to the inside of the case and let it be. That's what external speakers are for, anyway.
· Read more… - 2005 Sep 23
- chi-town revisited
so to be honest, I decided to come out here because of a girl. now M can't say I've never come out to visit.
· Read more… - 2005 Sep 27
- nyc — revisiting the big city (continued)
In some ways, Gotham has been on my consciousness for a slightly longer time than the Windy City has. The first time I came out here was in January 1993, and from what I remember, it was not yet fully Giulianified. Me and others from my high school were only there for a night, I think, on an East Coast college tour. I remember being cold, staying in a place infested with roaches, with holes in the walls where some guy on probably PCP decided to take out his aggression on the building. Ah, those were the days.
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October
- 2005 Oct 12
- voiceless
so it seems that I have lost my voice. I woke up this morning and didn't realize that I didn't have one until I went to buy coffee. Huh. I guess that's what is unique about living alone (this is the first time I've ever done it) I can go for nearly three hours without having to utter a word to anyone. Even in the household where I hated one of my roommates, this wasn't really possible.
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November
- 2005 Nov 10
- 525,600 minutes
The heart may freeze or it can burn
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The pain will ease if I can learn
There is no future
There is no past
I live this moment as my last - 2005 Nov 12
- low score
found on eye.8.infiniti
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December
- 2005 Dec 18
- dying days
burnt out, trampled, bruised and scratched up
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tattered and shredded into bits
was it dark purpose, cruel design
as the daylight waned
and darkness usurped the land
that I was made against my will
to face the dying and the dead
made to be Charon rowing the rickety boat
across that lifeless river
2006
February
- 2006 Feb 17
- interim
I don't understand it. My brain is, I think, locking up on me. Or I'm just getting old or something. It's terrible.
· Read more… - 2006 Feb 23
- unknown quantity
This is stupidity at its finest. Richard Cohen decries the necessity of the existence of algebra and uses the old argument that people shouldn't need to learn what they don't want to.
· Read more… - 2006 Feb 27
- trying a new blog engine
So I tried this once before but then I lost my admin password and so had to delete the nascent blog (previously at chronos.fatoprofugus.net, which no longer exists), and there are all sorts of things that have kept me from jumping onto the Wordpress bandwagon, which I will go into detail later, but since Dreamhost makes it blindingly easy to install Wordpress, I figured, what have I got to lose but a little precious sleep and a little rarefied sanity. (By the way, don't let the term SQL Server scare you, even though it scared the crap out of me, and is one of the reasons why I've been slow to adopt the newest shiny thing. Just fill in the blanks in semi-random fashion, just making sure that you write things down somewhere. Especially that admin password.)
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