Category Archives: California

1337 unix skilz

I’ve just written my first cron job, to sort my Mozilla bookmarks by last access (since Moz won’t do it properly). Seems to work. Woohoo! I learned just enough from the Llama Book to do it crudely, but not enough … Continue reading

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in a cool dark place

Saturday was Hayward’s hottest day this year, or so it seemed; so we went to a place where, for a fee, we could sit in coolth for a while. As a bonus, they showed us Hero (英雄), the most gorgeous … Continue reading

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Mike Mayakis

Mike Mayakis, longtime Libertarian activist in San Francisco, has died of leukemia. Eric Garris [link updated 2006] and Justin Raimondo (see bottom) remember him.

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mixed message?

Seen on the tail of a car: I CAN TELL WHAT YOU’RE THINKING AND YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF and below that Show Me Your Tits

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what you do on your own time . . .

Seen on a van on Shattuck Avenue today: I’D RATHER BE BITING MY MACAW The van was also adorned with a wheelchair symbol, but that did not make the declaration any more transparent for me.

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you had to have been there before 2004 October 18

I’ve resigned myself to the thought that without comments my blog is never gonna make the big time like Boing Boing, Scripting News, Instapundit, Doc Searls, Andrew Sullivan, Jason Kottke, Salam Pax, USS Clueless, James Lileks or The Volokh Conspiracy. … Continue reading

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unconvincing

“Excuse me sir, I’m homeless, I got two children at home—” Run that by me again?

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