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(June 17, 2009, 11:47 am)
  

Randomness of the day: Immigration control is DRM for a border, and people respond to it in exactly the same way.

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(June 15, 2009, 10:45 pm)
  

There are places where time doesn't exist.

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Unix tutorials, at the airport!(June 15, 2009, 3:37 pm)
  
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(June 15, 2009, 2:31 pm)
  
Rule of thumb #937:

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(June 3, 2009, 5:18 pm)
  
There's probably going to be a new PC in my future, sometime after Windows 7 comes out. I'm tempted by the Shuttle, but just for comparison, I wanted to see what the equivalent Dell would cost. And I found this:

A 56K modem? How...quaint.
(May 29, 2009, 10:28 am)
  
I first saw this in college - on a real piece of paper - but then hadn't seen this in years. It popped up from fortune when I logged in this morning:

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Cleaning up after Shotgun Night...(May 26, 2009, 9:01 pm)
  
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(May 20, 2009, 4:09 pm)
  
Since January, everyone seems to be running around yelling "OMG! The Democrats are going to take our guns! And our ammo!". Gun prices are way up (someone at the gun show this weekend had a flier with a picture of Obama that said "Best gun salesman ever"). Handgun ammo is increasingly difficult to find, because people are buying it up, so if you walk into Academy, they're likely to be sold out. Then, instead of the two boxes someone would have bought at Academy, they're ordering an entire case online, so now all the online places are running out. People point at that and say, "See! It's starting already! I have to stock up, or I won't be able to buy ammo anymore!", and the cycle repeats. At this point, some places have ammo back-ordered by a month or more.

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Peanuts!(May 16, 2009, 7:40 pm)
  
Seen tonight at dinner:
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Writer's Block: BFF(May 15, 2009, 2:31 pm)
  

Who was your first friend on LiveJournal? Are they still on your Friends list?

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I'm a software developer in Houston, where my partner and I share a townhouse with a cat and a snake. I'm always looking for new interests, but my current set includes flying, motorcycles, and photography.

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