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Saturday, August 31, 2002
Saw Shot in the Heart, an HBO flick about Gary Gilmore based on the book of the same title by his brother Mikal, starring Giovanni Ribisi, who impressed me greatly with his performance in The Gift. Good stuff. Powerful and dark.
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Saw Shot in the Heart, an HBO flick about Gary Gilmore based on the book of the same title by his brother Mikal, starring Giovanni Ribisi, who impressed me greatly with his performance in The Gift. Good stuff. Powerful and dark.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2002
GED/L d+(-)@ s-:+>: a UL*++++$ P+>++ L+++@ E---(----) W+++ N+ w(----) PS+ X+ b+(++) G-- e+++$ r+++ tv@
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GED/L d+(-)@ s-:+>: a UL*++++$ P+>++ L+++@ E---(----) W+++ N+ w(----) PS+ X+ b+(++) G-- e+++$ r+++ tv@
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Tuesday, August 27, 2002
Mozilla 1.1 is out (released yesterday, actually). I'm surfing with it right now. Very nice work. I installed right over my old install and it didn't loose a single email or address book entry (even though I had the sense to back them all up). I also tried out Mozilla Calendar, which is nice and could be really good one day.
Finished Coetzee's Disgrace. So now I'm on the lookout for some new fiction to read. Disgrace was odd. I'm still thinking it over. Part of me wants to write an essay over it, for my own benefit if nothing else.
Saw In the Bedroom. Dark. Depressing. Very beautifully shot. It's a movie that takes some risks and wins.
Sorry for the lack of posts of late. Crazy, crazy, busy with all sorts of things.
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Mozilla 1.1 is out (released yesterday, actually). I'm surfing with it right now. Very nice work. I installed right over my old install and it didn't loose a single email or address book entry (even though I had the sense to back them all up). I also tried out Mozilla Calendar, which is nice and could be really good one day.
Finished Coetzee's Disgrace. So now I'm on the lookout for some new fiction to read. Disgrace was odd. I'm still thinking it over. Part of me wants to write an essay over it, for my own benefit if nothing else.
Saw In the Bedroom. Dark. Depressing. Very beautifully shot. It's a movie that takes some risks and wins.
Sorry for the lack of posts of late. Crazy, crazy, busy with all sorts of things.
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Saturday, August 24, 2002
When I was an undergrad, I spent a good deal of time pouring over the Norton anthologies of British literature (and the Heath anthologies of American literature). But, especially by the time I made it to grad school, I was as much (hell, probably more) interested in literary theory and criticism as I was with literature itself. It's an odd thing to enjoy, but what can I tell you. Anyway, yesterday I noticed, at the local Barnes and Noble, the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. And, for anyone into the subject, it's a substantial work--really the first of its kind in terms of comprehensiveness. It begins with the greeks and moves forward, including practically everyone you'll ever hear name-checked in a typical English graduate studies program. And I'm showing my geek here, but I think I'd really enjoy spending the better part of a decade of spare moments it would take to slog through its 2624 pages. I wish they'd had such a thing while I was in grad school, as many of these texts are hard to track down. Of course, here you just have snipets. But that's true of the literature anthologies as well. (Interesting connection, M. Keith Booker, whom I studied under at the U of A, wrote the teachers guide to this mamoth thing. His Vargos Llosa Among the Postmodernists is a good read and a good introduction to literary postmodernism).
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When I was an undergrad, I spent a good deal of time pouring over the Norton anthologies of British literature (and the Heath anthologies of American literature). But, especially by the time I made it to grad school, I was as much (hell, probably more) interested in literary theory and criticism as I was with literature itself. It's an odd thing to enjoy, but what can I tell you. Anyway, yesterday I noticed, at the local Barnes and Noble, the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. And, for anyone into the subject, it's a substantial work--really the first of its kind in terms of comprehensiveness. It begins with the greeks and moves forward, including practically everyone you'll ever hear name-checked in a typical English graduate studies program. And I'm showing my geek here, but I think I'd really enjoy spending the better part of a decade of spare moments it would take to slog through its 2624 pages. I wish they'd had such a thing while I was in grad school, as many of these texts are hard to track down. Of course, here you just have snipets. But that's true of the literature anthologies as well. (Interesting connection, M. Keith Booker, whom I studied under at the U of A, wrote the teachers guide to this mamoth thing. His Vargos Llosa Among the Postmodernists is a good read and a good introduction to literary postmodernism).
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Thursday, August 15, 2002
stuff from metafilter: This cost-of-living calculator is pretty fun. And I notice that davezilla has been issued a C&D order from the people who own the trademark on Godzilla (will they hound mozilla next? How about filezilla? jazilla?). You know, I was pretty close to registering wheatzilla.com at one point, but I didn't want to copy dave. In fact, it's still out there. Hmm....
LiteStep, an AfterStep/NextStep-inspired shell replacement for the Win32 GUI. Might try this on my laptop...
The LiteStep link got me thinking about reading up on the history of X Windows. And I found this great little page. I love it when people put things like this together just for for the fun of sharing knowledge: no profit motive, no design skills to speak of. Enjoy.
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stuff from metafilter: This cost-of-living calculator is pretty fun. And I notice that davezilla has been issued a C&D order from the people who own the trademark on Godzilla (will they hound mozilla next? How about filezilla? jazilla?). You know, I was pretty close to registering wheatzilla.com at one point, but I didn't want to copy dave. In fact, it's still out there. Hmm....
LiteStep, an AfterStep/NextStep-inspired shell replacement for the Win32 GUI. Might try this on my laptop...
The LiteStep link got me thinking about reading up on the history of X Windows. And I found this great little page. I love it when people put things like this together just for for the fun of sharing knowledge: no profit motive, no design skills to speak of. Enjoy.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2002
I think I mentioned The Quote Project before. What makes it handy is the way things are categorized. Gives you fine-grained control over what you want to find.
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I think I mentioned The Quote Project before. What makes it handy is the way things are categorized. Gives you fine-grained control over what you want to find.
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Sunday, August 11, 2002
Student loan debt = depression
Hey, I can relate. I love the blurb, BTW: "Being in debt does tend to have bad consequences for people". Brilliant.
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Student loan debt = depression
Hey, I can relate. I love the blurb, BTW: "Being in debt does tend to have bad consequences for people". Brilliant.
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Saturday, August 10, 2002
For whom the bell tolls . . .
My mom sent me an email today about discovering one of her high school friends has MS and can barely move. News like this always has a sobering effect. There's an impulse to be thankful (in my case, to whom is never really clear). Of course, thankfulness has its complications. If a benevolent god spares us punnishment, the same god also allows punnishment to happen. For me, anway, this feeling of thankfulness boils down to this: the sobering realization that there are always bullets flying past our heads and that it's amazing so few of them find their mark.
On to something lighter . . .
Did a little ego surfing to see who's linking to the BassBook. Found quite a few international links: some in Finish (1, 2), one in German (1), one in traditional Chinese (1), and, of course, dozens in English.
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For whom the bell tolls . . .
My mom sent me an email today about discovering one of her high school friends has MS and can barely move. News like this always has a sobering effect. There's an impulse to be thankful (in my case, to whom is never really clear). Of course, thankfulness has its complications. If a benevolent god spares us punnishment, the same god also allows punnishment to happen. For me, anway, this feeling of thankfulness boils down to this: the sobering realization that there are always bullets flying past our heads and that it's amazing so few of them find their mark.
On to something lighter . . .
Did a little ego surfing to see who's linking to the BassBook. Found quite a few international links: some in Finish (1, 2), one in German (1), one in traditional Chinese (1), and, of course, dozens in English.
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Tuesday, August 06, 2002
Gina & I spent Sunday visiting in Tulsa with her friend Amy. It was a nice visit. While Amy and Gina were doing some shopping, I found myself in a Barnes and Noble and found two books I'd really like to read when I get a chance: Martin Amis' new book on Stalin (Korba the Dread) and Rorty's The Consequences of Pragmatism. I sat down and read a bit of Amis' book and liked it a great deal. In fact, I think I'm going to read it as soon as I finish the J.M. Coetzee novel I'm working on.
Still on my Ed Burns kick: She's the One. Also saw two by Wes Anderson (both cowritten by Owen Wilson): The Royal Tenenbaums & Rushmore. Both of the Anderson/Owen films were good, though I prefered Tenenbaums (tip to the would-be hip: argue that Rushmore is the far superior film). She's the One was also very good, possibly my favorite of Burns' flicks (they're all good).
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Gina & I spent Sunday visiting in Tulsa with her friend Amy. It was a nice visit. While Amy and Gina were doing some shopping, I found myself in a Barnes and Noble and found two books I'd really like to read when I get a chance: Martin Amis' new book on Stalin (Korba the Dread) and Rorty's The Consequences of Pragmatism. I sat down and read a bit of Amis' book and liked it a great deal. In fact, I think I'm going to read it as soon as I finish the J.M. Coetzee novel I'm working on.
Still on my Ed Burns kick: She's the One. Also saw two by Wes Anderson (both cowritten by Owen Wilson): The Royal Tenenbaums & Rushmore. Both of the Anderson/Owen films were good, though I prefered Tenenbaums (tip to the would-be hip: argue that Rushmore is the far superior film). She's the One was also very good, possibly my favorite of Burns' flicks (they're all good).
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Saturday, August 03, 2002
I see Rommy has been hard at work, there are now four chapters (1, 2, 3, 4) of Wheat's BassBook availible in Russian thanks to his translating efforts. Does my heart proud.
Tower of Power bassist Francis Rocco Prestia is recovering from a recent liver transplant, but his medical bills are insane. Fans have set up a site so you can help out. When I was younger, I always assumed that any musician popular enough to get mentioned in Bass Player was rich beyond my wildest dreams, but it's not always the case (especially if you're a fusion player). So help out, if you can.
I've been using shoutcast + WinAmp a lot lately to stream music. There are lots of good stations. Among the more off-beat artists I've developed a liking for is Ben McAllister, whose music you can stream 24-7 (I'm thinking about setting up a similar chanel for Nancy. Picture the tag line: "All Nancy, all live, all the time!"). Ben's stuff is too eclectic to label. There are pop songs, insane alt-jazz instrumentals, tongue-in-cheek parodies, sound track music. I'm still exploring it. On the techno side of things (I'm not big into techno, but I have certain trance artists that I like, Orbital being a favorite), I've been enjoying DJ Joe Nash (who doesn't seem to have a homepage).
While we're talking music, tonight is Nancy's farewell concert. Two of our members are moving out of state for English instructorships at universities. So, barring reunion concerts when everyone happens to be in town, this is it for a while. As for me, I'm going to stay out of bands for a while, buy a new hard drive, and record some of my own stuff. I'll put together a page for it once things are rolling.
If you've ever played in a band, you'll probably find the Hall of Douchbags from rockandrollconfidential.com amusing (warning: quite a bit ruder than most things I link to. If profanity offends you, get a life..., er,...avoid this link).
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I see Rommy has been hard at work, there are now four chapters (1, 2, 3, 4) of Wheat's BassBook availible in Russian thanks to his translating efforts. Does my heart proud.
Tower of Power bassist Francis Rocco Prestia is recovering from a recent liver transplant, but his medical bills are insane. Fans have set up a site so you can help out. When I was younger, I always assumed that any musician popular enough to get mentioned in Bass Player was rich beyond my wildest dreams, but it's not always the case (especially if you're a fusion player). So help out, if you can.
I've been using shoutcast + WinAmp a lot lately to stream music. There are lots of good stations. Among the more off-beat artists I've developed a liking for is Ben McAllister, whose music you can stream 24-7 (I'm thinking about setting up a similar chanel for Nancy. Picture the tag line: "All Nancy, all live, all the time!"). Ben's stuff is too eclectic to label. There are pop songs, insane alt-jazz instrumentals, tongue-in-cheek parodies, sound track music. I'm still exploring it. On the techno side of things (I'm not big into techno, but I have certain trance artists that I like, Orbital being a favorite), I've been enjoying DJ Joe Nash (who doesn't seem to have a homepage).
While we're talking music, tonight is Nancy's farewell concert. Two of our members are moving out of state for English instructorships at universities. So, barring reunion concerts when everyone happens to be in town, this is it for a while. As for me, I'm going to stay out of bands for a while, buy a new hard drive, and record some of my own stuff. I'll put together a page for it once things are rolling.
If you've ever played in a band, you'll probably find the Hall of Douchbags from rockandrollconfidential.com amusing (warning: quite a bit ruder than most things I link to. If profanity offends you, get a life..., er,...avoid this link).
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Friday, August 02, 2002
Today's Win98 fatal error is brought to you by the numbers 2, 8, 6, 7, 4, 8, and the letter Q (note well, mozilla fans, that the boys from redmond have deliberately coded this page as to make it illegible on non-ie browsers).
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Today's Win98 fatal error is brought to you by the numbers 2, 8, 6, 7, 4, 8, and the letter Q (note well, mozilla fans, that the boys from redmond have deliberately coded this page as to make it illegible on non-ie browsers).
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