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Friday, March 03, 2000

2:25:06 PM by mark *: The Onion strikes again. This piece is priceless.

Thursday, March 02, 2000

8:47:06 PM by mark *

You can tell it is getting closer to spring here in the Ohio Valley. The Cyprus shreddings are in at the gas stations. This always boggles my mind. How did wood chips wind up in the same category as alien keychains and beef jerkey? Is there this much of a market for lawn care impulse buying? I can see seasonal stuff like road salt, it makes sense that you would think of that while out driving. Only road salt and Cyprus chips can displace the huge mounds of sun and weather bleached cola twelve packs.

I imagine this guy driving by and thinking, "Hmm need gas before the big weekend and hey a pack of smokes wouldn't be bad and ... Oh, damn you know my front lawn looks like shit ... Hey! Cyprus shreddings, that'll cover up the unsightly rotting chips from last year! Great!"

They need more seasonal stuff, spring break blowup dolls, prom vomit buckets, Giant sun bleached piles of cheapo super soakers for the first weeks of summer, things like that.

5:28:37 PM by mark *

Steely Dan Interview on The New York Observer. Man how does Jorn find all this good stuff? =)

5:18:09 PM by mark *

The New Scientist is pretty cool this week. The Random Universe link below is from them. See these too, Hominid Buildings We humans put up a lot of stuff; and the Sperm Concern because you never know what will come up; and Light Healing because even bacteria get sick of the dark.

5:05:03 PM by mark *

ESO has some fricking beautiful images. And the HUGE ones are available. Dumbell is a prime example.

3:26:28 PM by mark *

Random Universe is one of the most fascinating articles I've read in a long time. Science is cool.

Wednesday, March 01, 2000

10:02:07 AM by mark *

Here is another thought. Is GNU like the soviet state of software? Did Stallman make the same mistake the Communists made? Remember that the theory that Capitalism would lead naturally thru Socialism to a sort of Cooperative Utopia? Does that sound like what Stallman said about software naturally winning as more and more opened up? And thus my real question? Did Stallman make the mistake that the Soviets did and try and shortcut straight to Utopia from Capitalism?

He has been forced into a lot of propaganda and rhetoric and he is seen as a sort of demagogue at times. He does rule over his own with a legal iron curtain that keeps his stuff separate from a lot of others. There is quite a cold war going on with the Cathedral types too.

On the other hand, he hasn't exactly sent troops into SendMail or Apache yet. And I think, regardless of the appropriate symbol line up, that Sun is more Italy than Japan when it comes to Java. =)

I was going to go thru and link lots of stuff but I'm lazy and anyone who gets this at all knows all the links anyway.

Sunday, February 27, 2000

11:16:43 PM by mark *: It has occured to me that if you buy a car based on how good it looks when it is hydroplaning, the warning on the bottom of the screen about it being performed by a pro on a closed course isn't going to help. You are still stupid. It is only a matter of time until you get yourself killed. I mean really, isn't NOT being able to hydroplane the idea? Skidding out of control is really the last thing I look for in a car.
And while I'm bitching, the commercial with the mini-vans tailgating each other thru a nice wooded lane. This is the top reason why I won't buy a minivan. They are all alike. I'd have to get the remote entry option because without the flashing lights, I'd never be able to tell which one was mine.
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