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TA duties.

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Today’s comp314 administration task:

$ mkdir -p project1/group{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16}/{tags,trunk,branches}
$ svn add project1

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Hoax.

Monday, February 6th, 2006

DAVID BRANCACCIO: We’ve been talking grand policy. The then director of the CIA, George Tenent, Vice President Cheney’s deputy Libby, told you that the intelligence that was the basis of going to war was rock solid. Given what you now know, how does that make you feel?

LAWRENCE WILKERSON: It makes me feel terrible. I’ve said in other places that it was– constitutes the lowest point in my professional life. My participation in that presentation at the UN constitutes the lowest point in my professional life. I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community and the United Nations Security Council. How do you think that makes me feel?

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Mass marketing.

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Most of the advertisements that accompanied the generally dull Super Bowl XL were themselves generally dull. My favorite, I think, was “Stunt City”, mostly for the mini-gag with the coffee at the end.

Other popular spots at our viewing included FedEx’s “Stick” and Nationwide’s “Gondola” starring Fabio. Trying too hard: Burger King, Full Throttle (seemingly claiming a secret ingredient), and Caddy. (Not trying hard enough: Mick Jagger.)

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Apartment security.

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

True tales of apartment living: Erin and I discuss our security situation.

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My personality type is DOOM

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

I’ve always been intrigued by (and placed a fair amount of stock in) the Keirsey/Myers/Briggs temperament classification system, yet I hadn’t ever read this about INTPs before:
A major concern for INTPs is the haunting sense of impending failure. They spend considerable time second-guessing themselves. The open-endedness (from Perceiving) conjoined with the need for competence (NT) is expressed in a sense that one’s conclusion may well be met by an equally plausible alternative solution, and that, after all, one may very well have overlooked some critical bit of data. An INTP arguing a point may very well be trying to convince himself as much as his opposition. In this way INTPs are markedly different from INTJs, who are much more confident in their competence and willing to act on their convictions.
That explains a lot, frankly.

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Now where will I go to get midnight album releases?

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Beloved Cactus Music to close its doors

Cactus Music & Video, one of Houston’s best-loved and best-stocked independent music retailers, will close on March 31.

General manager Quinn Bishop announced the closing in a letter today.

Update 2/4: The Chronicle now has an extended obit for Cactus.

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How about the tree at the dead-end?

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

From this “Twillight Princess” gameplay vid on Google video, at 07:18:

An homage to a simpler time.

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