Monthly Archives: October 2005

Brent gets desperate

how to impress chicks?

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layers of language

In the chaos that is my mind at this hour — Brain damage such as stroke can take away the symbolic processing ability known as language. I wonder: does the most obvious kind of sign-language, pointing and miming, go with … Continue reading

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with friends like these

Argh. I just tried to back up my home directory folder to a DVD. When the burn was nearing completion, it aborted because Finder “cannot find data fork of file <unable to locate file path>”. Got that? Four gigabytes of … Continue reading

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stupid kitten jokes

Pillow has taken up hunting the human ankles that pass by. He’s quite the ankle tom.

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Free Market Anti-Capitalism

I wonder what I did to deserve being blogrolled by Mutualist (Kevin Carson).

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morning chatter

“What was it I wanted at Trader Joe’s? Oh, right, I’m on a diet.” “I wouldn’t put it past them to name a product that. ‘Oh Right I’m On A Diet’ brand tofu chips.”

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spilling shells

A surprising passage in The Adventure of the Dancing Men: [Sherlock] Holmes hunted about among the grass and leaves like a retriever after a wounded bird. Then, with a cry of satisfaction, he bent forward and picked up a little … Continue reading

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