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I've started learning a few new tunes on the Guitar. "Street Spirit" by Radio Head is a great song. I've got the picking pattern down, as long as I play it at 75% the actual speed. The song itself is actually VERY easy. And EASY is what I need. The only reason I haven't been [...]

I am sick of myself and the
stuttered renditions of life
that I attempt to create.
I have been nothing but
textbook skimmings
and a few mentally
sharpened words.
This life is no longer
absorbed in a night.
This life is no longer a heap of
scattered dreams
punctuated with the
well-wishings of those who
care with one eye
and despise with the other.
I am not your [...]

The proofs I got back look great. I just really don't feel like scanning them at all. Maybe later tonight. Or tomorrow. Or something.
I've been playing guitar for the past two hours, and my fingers hurt bad.
Joel just called… so I am going to Guitar Center to buy some strings, and then after that I'm [...]

Going to the PhotoLab to pick up prints. I am considering having them scan the whole lot and burn them on a CD so I don't have to deal with that shit. These days, it is worth $20 to spare me the three or four hours that can take. After that, I'm heading home for [...]

I am now the proud owner of an Ibanez Acoustic.

You can tell you need a cup of coffee when you've been brewing it for 5 minutes only to realize that you forgot to put any coffee grounds in the coffee maker and that all you've really brewed is a pot of hot water.

Red Hat Proposes to Enhance Microsoft Settlement Offer By Providing Open Source Software to All U.S. School Districts. Open Source leader proposes to provide software to every school district in the United States if Microsoft provides computing hardware for the 14,000 poorest school districts. More…

PEAR has a fairly decent set of XML-RPC libraries. I have spent a wholesome chunk of the past three hours learning how to use them because there is absolutely NO documentation. Maybe I should write some? I am not really suited to writing documentation. I am good at writing examples. Maybe examples are better than [...]

A long time ago me and my brother frank here, we were hitchhiking down the Information Super Highway. When all of a sudden, there shined a shiny demon in the middle of my screen. And he said, "Write the best post in the world, or I'll eat your soul."
Well me and Frank, we looked at [...]

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