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A visit from Space Owl

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

“We have damaged the earth’s axis with BOOZE.”

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Allen Ctr., Rice University

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

TRIPPING HAZARDS

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Paa-puu-ma-ri-o!

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

The official site for ペーパーマリオＲＰＧ (”Paper Mario RPG”) just went live (as reported by Joystiq). Known as Paper Mario 2 in the US, it definitely seems to be the future of the Mario series. (Honestly, it looks pretty cool. Being 2-d has all sorts of benefits, like the ability to fold into a glider and fly over the level!)

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One last dance with Bubba

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

Rod swoons for William J.: “Clinton gives the appearance of not only believing every word he is saying, but that he wrote it himself.”

I watched Clinton’s speech with closed-captioning (Erin, who gets up at 5 or 6 a.m. these days, was already asleep) and could tell it was a great speech, through the C/C typos and delay. But I also discovered that this must be how Darryl Hammond learns to imitate the man. With the words silenced, every facial expression and gesticulation was deafening. There they all were, the guffaw-inducing trademarks of Hammond’s Clinton bit: The squint; the jocular detour (and abrupt return to form); the bitten lower lip, and the wry little grin that leaks out behind his teeth when he does it.

Rod, again: “I only hope that Kerry can deliver something half as powerful on Thursday night.” Indeed. When Clinton approached the stage, there was a part of my brain already expecting his campaign theme song instead of Kerry’s (which is what, again?) They did not disappoint, and I wondered how many delegates, attendees, and TV watchers found themselves wishing themselves back to 1992.

“Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone…“

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Revisionism.

Monday, July 26th, 2004

I just got the most unusual piece of spam from palmOne about my essay, “requiem for having been”, about the acquisition of Be, Inc. by Palm, Inc.

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Bookmarks, part XXI

Monday, July 26th, 2004

This afternoon’s surviving tabs: April 21 Doonesbury in which B.D. is revealed to have lost both his leg and his signature helmet in Iraq … Salon on Alan Moore: The Man Who Invented The Future … The Atlantic: A Jewish Palestine (H. Sacher, 1919) … Building a bridge to the 19th century … A Softer World … Sulfnbk Syndrome … OSX networking in detail … The Parrot Developers Give Up.

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“his fiancee’s iBook was badly damaged when it was pried apart with a screwdriver…”

Monday, July 26th, 2004

“His online friendship with other Stargate fans across the globe was portrayed as an international conspiracy against the MPAA. And perhaps most disturbing of all, it was later revealed that the FBI invoked a provision of the USA Patriot Act to obtain financial records from his ISP.” Read about the brave new world of copyright law as applied to SG1Archive.com.

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