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I was thinking of starting to present some of my journal entries as sketches or inked drawings.

Saturday, September 27th, 2003

I was thinking of starting to present some of my journal entries as sketches or inked drawings.

Then I came to my senses. What the hell was I thinking?

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Quick notes for the evening:

Friday, September 26th, 2003

Quick notes for the evening:

  1. The US version of Coupling isn’t nearly as good as the BBC version. It is also, however, not nearly as bad as I was afraid it might be. So, I mean, “there’s an upside.”
  2. Erin finally opened one of her birthday albums — the new John Mayer release, Heavier Things. (This is the album that she was compelled to desire after listening to Mayer interviewed on NPR.) We’ve barely scratched the surface of the music (so to speak — damned slot-loading CD player!) but I’m already blown away by the design of the CD (classic Columbia records throwback, with late-1950’s phonograph line art and “COLUMBIA” set in Century (or similar)) and the liner notes (charming, hilarious, inspired infographics and statistics accompanying each song).

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secsh is SO GOOD for a couple of reasons:

Friday, September 26th, 2003

secsh is SO GOOD for a couple of reasons:

  1. It is a pure-python implementation of an SSH2 client, supporting private key and password authentication.
  2. “milestone releases are being named alphabetically after pokémon.”

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Someone forwarded me a link to this ThinkGeek t-shirt, explaining that it made him think of me.

Friday, September 26th, 2003

Someone forwarded me a link to this ThinkGeek t-shirt, explaining that it made him think of me.

I believe this is cause for deep, deep shame on my part.

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A Slashdot article appearing last Monday, which reported on the claim that scrambled words are legible as long as first and last letters are in…

Friday, September 26th, 2003

A Slashdot article appearing last Monday, which reported on the claim that scrambled words are legible as long as first and last letters are in place, was circulated to the University of British Columbia’s Linguistics department. An interesting counter-example resulted:

“Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd, utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr.”
As demonstrated, a simple inversion of the internal characters results in a text which is relatively hard to decipher. — Slashback 9/25

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JERUSALEM (AP) — A group of reserve air force pilots drew condemnation Thursday for refusing to carry out airstrikes in Palestinian areas, but their unprecedented…

Thursday, September 25th, 2003

JERUSALEM (AP) — A group of reserve air force pilots drew condemnation Thursday for refusing to carry out airstrikes in Palestinian areas, but their unprecedented protest set off an emotional debate on the ethics of the targeted killings of militants.

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I don’t know if you’ve been reading the Apple stories on ComputerHistory.org, but this Andy Hertzfeld anecdote is very cool.

Thursday, September 25th, 2003

I don’t know if you’ve been reading the Apple stories on ComputerHistory.org, but this Andy Hertzfeld anecdote is very cool. (Also, the story about Rumor Monger is quite fun.)

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