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As seen on Buford Highway
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Apparantly America is at the point
Where we have 3 week long, 24/7, watergun assassination tournaments. Life is interesting.
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I got the lights
And they’re pretty impressive. The kit is over four feet tall in the case, and 55 pounds or so.
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One liners and things that caught my eye
- Good one liner –
If there is a motto for the Bush Administration’s war policy, it is, “Doing the Right Thing Wrongly.”
The argument on the neo-right these days resembles the 30s debates between Stalinist and Trotskyist on the nature of communism, i.e. can one separate the theory and practice.
- The nature of motion sickness
- From an article about the Skyhook (sort of a reverse parachute) –
The first live test was conducted with a pig as the target. Due to some stability issues, the pig spun in the 125 mph wind, and arrived on the plane dizzy and discombobulated. It recovered, however, and promptly attacked the crew.
- Good one liner –
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The end nears
The end to my long upgrade struggle anyway. From three pin adapters that go onto four pin holes, to reformatting hard drives to bizzare RAM voltage, it’s been an informative two days. Now to go Christmas shopping. Humbug.
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RAM wickedness
I want the 16 hours of my life back. I’ve been chasing my tail on what I believe are memory problems. The photo is apropos of nothing, but I thought it turned out nicely. It’s from my little Canon.
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More Iraq
One oft-repeated trope about Iraq is that Iran and Syria don’t have any interest in an unstable Iraq. Why? While I’m sure that is not their ideal situation, I’m sure that a vibrant pro-Western democracy would be worse in their opinion.
Also the possible strategy of doubling down (a “troop surge”) is doomed to failure. The Iranians and Syrians can trade off lives and money at a very favorable ratio to them for the foreseeable future.
However this is a moot point. Enough highly motivated factions are in Iraq to make the eventual breakup a certainty. What we should be doing is facilitating the breakup instead of denying it.
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Surreal
It’s four in the morning, I’ve spent all day fighting with asp.net configuration problems and all night been fighting with a cpu that seems to be DOA. I still don’t have my new lens.
Then I smell smoke. The neighborhood behind me is filled with smoke and there is a large fire burning behind them.
The photo is apropos of nothing. The fire is out now. There were two fire trucks and several police cars.
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Ajax is a seductive swamp
Specifically the Ajax.net toolkit. It would seem that one can’t retrofit an existing site, though who knows why.
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A useful axiom
In my first advanced macroeconomics class my professor defined truth as “The consensus of informed opinion”. I remembered that for some reason today.