Monthly Archives: April 2002

Pray For Our Gun Show

snapshot worth a chuckle. (from the muted horn)

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http://nowhere

And then there’s the spammer who goes to such lengths to cover its tracks that Netscape can’t parse its silly links. Is it zaam.net, goopt.net, or something else again?

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where the Chicks are

I’ve just been invited to join Amazing Grace Tract Fellowship on InJesus.com. We provide Chick tracts and other materials to Evangelical Christian Missionaries worldwide. Is this someone’s twisted joke, or was my address harvested because I mentioned Chick last month?

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area code is destiny?

It has been brought to my attention that 415 is HTTP code for “Unsupported Media Type”. I guess that would include former employees of the Industry Standard.

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an impossible soap-film

Did a spot of programming today: a crude script to translate Surface Evolver output into PoV-Ray input. Took me maybe an hour. Python r00lz.

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I feel my pain

My temp job is at a lawfirm that defends insurers in Workers Comp. (They seem surprisingly honest about Trying to Do the Right Thing.) Typing all these letters about cumulative trauma and tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome . . . makes my … Continue reading

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“Immigrants”

a touching tale of leaving behind the familiar for a strange new world. (August 1996)

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