average bear :: November 2003 Archives
It's all about falling down.
Never really into C64 stuff, but Pirates was cool.
Frodo for PalmOS: a free C64 emulator for the Palm....
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• Posted at 07:49PM, 11.30.03
Character Idea from Apples to Apples
Powerful Patriotic Outrageous Cute Hopeless...
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• Posted at 05:13PM, 11.27.03
Thankgiving feast
Just for the record: Dave, Margie, Angie, Randy, Ed, Ann, Justin, Kitten, Jackie, and me... 34 pounds of turkey... Stuffing... Rice... Fruit Salad (thanks Madeline)... Potatoes... Corn with garlic salt......
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• Posted at 04:21PM, 11.27.03
A ha.
So I think I've finally figured out what Dizzy's german shep breed is mixed with -- while at the Petstore a few days ago, I saw a woman walking with...
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• Posted at 02:22PM, 11.24.03
I am so there
Philip B. Gaines announces the completion of an independent multimedia commentary project, "Firefly: A Special Feature", a DVD based on the FOX television series created by Joss Whedon. A free...
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• Posted at 01:05PM, 11.24.03
Savant
Wired: The Key to Genius -- an article on an austistic savant who, at 12, has released his fifth album of jazz compositions. As we finish lunch, Matt asks me...
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• Posted at 10:26AM, 11.24.03
Totally seeable unforeseeable...ness
You can finally move to a new cell carrier and keep your existing number. Sweet... or not. As the article mentions, most carriers have put a lot more time and...
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• Posted at 10:16AM, 11.24.03
Feed the feed demon
Great collection of RSS-related links....
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• Posted at 09:54AM, 11.24.03
ant-ipod
iPod's Dirty Secret is a three-minute movie (ironically, in Quicktime) made by an iPod owner to protest the fact that Apple won't replace his 18-month-old iPod's dead battery. He's engaged...
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• Posted at 09:44AM, 11.24.03
Coda (random non-spoiler thoughts on the Matrix)
So I figured I'd weigh in on The Matrix. Not Revolutions, or even Reloaded... just the Matrix. The whole experience. The whole experience. That means all three movies, plus the...
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• Posted at 09:34AM, 11.24.03
Sleepy sleepy time
Ferberizing your baby. Dr. Richard Ferber is a child sleep specialist who has a come up with a method to train babies to go to sleep on their own, and...
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• Posted at 06:24AM, 11.23.03
165
Test your digital IQ....
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• Posted at 06:13AM, 11.23.03
In stitches
subversive cross stitch Relatively crude motifs throughout, but I would kinda like a 'People are cattle' one for Christmas :) Better, I could give it to my relatives on the...
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• Posted at 05:51AM, 11.23.03
I need something like this for PalmOS
PerversionTracker: Apparently Useless Software The highly trained PerversionTracker staff locates the very worst of Mac software. We search the web for 15 minutes a day so you don’t have to!...
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• Posted at 05:47PM, 11.20.03
Hiatus?
Karen Sisco has been put on "hiatus". ABC has said the show will air in March in a new timeslot. I'm bummed about this. I wasn't taping the show primarily...
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• Posted at 12:47PM, 11.20.03
Email: 5:36 am, today
Hey there, not much to write today. I've got the day off, so I agreed to take Grandma down to Sioux Falls where the docs can see if they need...
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• Posted at 07:40AM, 11.20.03
Two Towers, extended
As I suspected, the extended version of Two Towers makes a much stronger film than the one I saw in the theatre. With Fellowship, the added bits were nice, but...
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• Posted at 09:57AM, 11.19.03
Read-y goodness
Free Online Library - Classic books by famous authors Nothing much more need be said about this. Pretty cool....
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• Posted at 09:38AM, 11.19.03
Better than a padlock on the frigidaire
Okay, lemme clue y'all in to the best diet tip of all time... Paint the kitchen. Seriously. Once a nice fresh coat of brilliant white is up on the ceiling,...
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• Posted at 10:31PM, 11.17.03
The truth about cats and dogs
A little excerpt from a 'dog owner' email Jackie sent me: 1. The dog lives here. You don't. 2. If you don't want dog hair on your clothes, stay off...
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• Posted at 12:27PM, 11.17.03
For those who asked...
I am, in fact, having a better week....
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• Posted at 11:42AM, 11.17.03
Postus interruptus
My continuing inability to post 'normally' in Slimbrowser is really ticking me off. Which in itself is ticking me off, since Slimbrowser is in all other ways an entirely superior...
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• Posted at 10:23AM, 11.17.03
What? No stuffing?
Turkey and Gravy soda. Dear god, the humanity. For Christmas, it'll be Poinsettia ale, followed up by the January release of Guilt, in Regular and Diet. (via Non-euclidean staircase)...
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• Posted at 09:17AM, 11.17.03
Patriot Act turns the big 02
Dong Resin interviews the Patriot Act: PA: Well, you libertarians all seem to think there's this great parallel universe where things are as they should be, and if only you...
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• Posted at 09:46AM, 11.15.03
My word of the day
verklempt adj. 1. overcome with emotion 2. clenched I'm bloody sick of the way the last couple weeks have gone. That's all I have to say about that....
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• Posted at 03:57PM, 11.13.03
The kind of crap you notice when you're so busy and tired you can't think
Absent any outside stimuli except opening the bottle/can, Pepsi One and Diet Pepsi continue to bubble for a lot longer than Diet Coke. [Yes, my life really is that sad...
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• Posted at 10:13PM, 11.12.03
Kill me, kill me now.
So, this week and next, we're actually implementing the New Hire Orientation that I've been killing myself developing for the last month or so (haven't had a day completely 'off'...
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• Posted at 01:45PM, 11.10.03
Memory reminder
The only real pause I had in my PDA-purchasing yesterday was a brief moment when I thought to myself "geez, we have all those 128 meg cards for the camera......
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• Posted at 03:52PM, 11. 6.03
How telling
President Bush Signs Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and, as Kottke points out, there's no women in the picture....
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• Posted at 01:05PM, 11. 6.03
So quiet I can hear the crickets in my inbox
I officially disconnected my old '(at)bears-cave' address yesterday... I've been using the new address for a week or so, but I'd left forwarding on from the old address to the...
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• Posted at 09:17AM, 11. 5.03
My willpower is so much stronger when I have help
Jackie called out of the blue this morning and opined, begrudgingly, that if I were to get a new Palm of some kind, she could see some advantages to taking...
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• Posted at 07:47AM, 11. 5.03
stress much?
I woke this morning to the revelation that I have progressed beyond grinding my teeth in my sleep to actually gnashing them....
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• Posted at 01:55PM, 11. 4.03
Weekend in Review
A really busy, annoying couple of weeks here in the land of the average bear. Nothing interesting currently going on, but that doesn't mean I won't post about it anyway....
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• Posted at 10:23AM, 11. 4.03
File this under 'thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou'
Google rejects Microsoft's takeover bid....
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• Posted at 06:59PM, 11. 2.03
I didn't have a picture of David G's costume, so...
What Halloween gone too, too far might look like....
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• Posted at 06:56PM, 11. 2.03
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