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new dsandler.org feature:

Wednesday, January 30th, 2002

new dsandler.org feature: randomized links (see pale-yellow-colored menu above).

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erin (8:25 AM):

Wednesday, January 30th, 2002

erin (8:25 AM): Armand made this REALLY sad noise while I was finishing up getting ready, so I went to snuggle him a little, and he said they hadn’t eaten in days. I went over to look at their bowls, and Albert chimed in in agreement.

dan (8:25 AM): Is that what he told you? They hadn’t eaten since yesterday.

erin (8:26 AM): They said days. But yeah, I opened the new food and got out a measuring cup to dispense it, because I knew I’d never be able to lift it. They were literally pushing each other out of the way while I was opening the bag. I had to move the trash can to get at the door, and when I poured the food: Albert rubbed his head on my hand so hard that I spilled quite a bit of it and then stood right where the trash can goes to clean up what I’d spilled. I asked him to move and nudged him with the trash can, but he just would NOT move. He was still eating when I left. Mando ate enough and then went under the table again.

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weblogs.com is hassling me.

Tuesday, January 29th, 2002

weblogs.com is hassling me. The popular weblog aggregator seems to think it can’t reach dsandler.org (although apparently you and I can): Can’t read stream because TCP/IP error code 10060 - Connection timed out. Other aggregators that implement the same XML-RPC protocol (like blo.gs) seem to work OK.

Sorry, Dave. No more weblogs.com for me. Interop’s a bitch, ain’t it?

update: It seems that RPC2 is just totally down now:

pingserver: http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 … Traceback (innermost last):
File ““, line 4, in ?
File “/u/dsandler/src/pw-xmlrpc/xmlrpclib.py”, line 547, in __call__
  return self.__send(self.__name, args)
File “/u/dsandler/src/pw-xmlrpc/xmlrpclib.py”, line 630, in __request
  request
File “/u/dsandler/src/pw-xmlrpc/xmlrpclib.py”, line 560, in request
  h = httplib.HTTP(host)
File “/usr/local/lib/python1.5/httplib.py”, line 51, in __init__
  if host: self.connect(host, port)
File “/usr/local/lib/python1.5/httplib.py”, line 79, in connect
  self.sock.connect(host, port)
socket.error: (61, ‘Connection refused’)

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Some thoughts on the State of the Union:

Tuesday, January 29th, 2002

Some thoughts on the State of the Union:
  1. “[our enemies] thought that America was weak and materialistic.” Yes, and they found out that we were merely materialistic.
  2. Is “compassion” a euphemism? “We will show them our compassion.” It will be laser-guided, dropped from the air, and be equivalent to fifty kilotons of TNT.
  3. “football of tyranny” (I think it was actually ‘footfall’, but whatever.)
  4. “Evil.” Evil, evil, evil. This is a heavy word to throw around. The last time I heard it this much in a State of the Union address was in the 80s…

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<ctate> grrr.

Tuesday, January 29th, 2002

<ctate> grrr. in OSX, how do i install new fonts?
<em> ctate: lick them?

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Was just chatting with rstevens about aaronjasinski.com …

Tuesday, January 29th, 2002

Was just chatting with rstevens about aaronjasinski.com … that guy’s got such a wonderfully jointy style. It’s great!

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Well, my (ex-)manager just brought me a gag gift of sorts.

Tuesday, January 29th, 2002

Well, my (ex-)manager just brought me a gag gift of sorts. It’s a “motivational” mousepad. Here’s the gag — it’s not a Demotivator(tm). It’s a real one that she found.

PERSISTENCE
The Race Goes Not Always To The Swift .. But To Those Who Keep On Running.

“Thanks! I’ll use this mousepad in ironic splendor.”

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