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“It’s just an idiom, Croach, which ain’t but a metaphor the poetry’s worn off of.” —Red Plains Rider (Busy Phillips) So much better than what I was misremembering. #TAHLive


Tweeting, from inside Twitter. Whoa.


There. Did a mercurial commit on a plane. Can cross that off the bucket list.


Currently enamored with Benford's Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law


"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you." — Robert Anton Wilson


I do so love named arguments in parameter lists. Makes code so much easier to read.


On the limits of the web:' No results found for "epileptic tree surgeon".'


I knew the phrase "law of conservation of ambiguity" was too good not to already exist. About 343,000 results (0.41 seconds)...


"WordNet® is a large lexical database of English" mmmm, databases.... http://wordnet.princeton.edu/


At the freebase meetup at Metaweb in San Francisco. Hadn't heard of SPARQL before. http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/


And here's the too long Amazon link http://www.amazon.com/Buster-Voodoo/dp/B002MOF6M4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1264789416&sr=1-2


And here they are on the Late Late Show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFs6wtR33Tc How did we do this in the past?

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Q. What was that song KFOG played about 9:30 last night when I was driving home? A. Buster Voodoo by Rodrigo y Gabriela (9:39) Love the web


Who wrote the story "Hello Beep" about a future calculator? 1978ish. Read it in the catalog from which I bought my HP 34C.


RT Graham Duff "They just sort of appeared, like squid at Christmas."


Geeking out here. Point of discussion is Nagle's algorithm and the small packet problem, and we just watched the new Star Trek movie.


Enjoyed the ZPUG meeting last night at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. Geekiest thing I could think of was to install Squeak on my laptop


Google says the phrase "singing like a mutant yogurt" isn't on the web. It's a line from Nebulous, and should be. There. Done.


Doug Engelbart book release party. Ted Nelson and a few dozen other notables were there. Something wonderful about silicon valley.


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