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Saturday, May 18, 2002 |
Tangentially related to the killall debacle. Too harsh, but generally sensible:
When crap is being pushed as the best thing since sliced bread because it's "Free as in Beer" (or "Speech", or whatever) (read: "it makes some nerd with zero social skills feel good about himself"), well, forgive me if all I feel about that is disdain.
I'm a great believer in Open Source, Public Science, and sharing of ideas. But you know what? -- my job is to keep software up and running. I don't care if it pays someone's bills, or if it suits someone's political agenda. All I care about is that it works.
11:01:39 PM 
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I received the "The Chairman's Award" at the awards ceremony tonight. "To a student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science who shows exceptional academic or leadership potential." One other person (EE) got it. I'm happy.
Four of the six members of my suite got something.
I love my family, but... Let's just say that I'm looking forward to Seattle with Melinda more than ever.
7:20:28 PM
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Ouch! The guy at the lapstop station next to me just smoked his laptop. The phone connections in his country look exactly like the power connections in the Netherlands, and he just hooked his internal modem up to 230V AC :-(. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog]
Ouch is right...
1:43:14 PM
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Living is.... Living is... Waking up saturday morning with a good hangover to a samba band playing down the street. Lively, positive, rhytmic music - great... [CommonMe]
Can't speak to the hangover, but Freshman year, I lived right by the CWRU football fields: marching band rehearsal every Saturday morning.
1:22:54 PM
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Really good article on TV news anchors in the NY Times Magazine:
Whatever the news each night on NBC's ''Nightly News,'' CBS's ''Evening News'' and ABC's ''World News Tonight,'' the commercials on the three broadcasts amount to a grim virtual tour of a medicine cabinet largely for the aging, the infirm, the impotent and the incontinent: Plavix, Pepcid, Nexium, Ditropan, Caltrate, Viagra and Depends.
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Dan Rather, perhaps the most persistent critic of television news among the anchors, wrapped up his report on President Bush's national address about stem-cell research by encouraging his viewers to read the story in ''one of the better newspapers tomorrow'' since ''it's the kind of subject that, frankly, radio and television have some difficulty with because it requires such depth into the complexities of it.''
12:28:08 PM
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Jump/cut played last night at Platform, It’s got to be pretty rare to hear drum’n’bass performed with real drums and bass guitar rather than with a drum machine. [Simon Fell]
I saw Everything But The Girl live on their "Walking Wounded" tour. They had a drummer playing an electronic drum set and a guy with an upright electric bass. It was hot.
11:55:49 AM
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