Monthly Archives: March 2007

Bob Dylan

I just fin­ished Noc Direc­tion Home, the Bob Dylan doc­u­men­tary by Mar­tin Scorcese. It was pretty dang good, actu­ally, par­tic­u­larly the sec­ond half. Allen Gins­berg talks about how early on, he real­ized that his gen­er­a­tion was pass­ing the torch to Dylan (a torch that, later on, Dylan rejects). Which made me wonder–to whom has Dylan passed the [...]
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Poetry Blog Commenting Fixed

For what it’s worth, I fixed the com­ment­ing prob­lem I was hav­ing on my poetry blog, so every­one can rush, now, to it and engage the mind-blowing exer­cise I so poorly set up. Oops. I still haven’t posted any actual poetry there. I wrote some­thing I’m not utterly ashamed of today, so that’s a start [...]
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Nationwide Insurance Customer Service Bites

When we were in Arkansas, we had our insur­ance, car and home, through Nation­wide. We had a local office, Nathan Combs. If you live in Fayet­teville, I’d rec­om­mend going to them. It was cheaper than any­where else, and the peo­ple there are really great, par­tic­u­larly the young guy with red hair. [...]
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Foot In Mouth

When I took this pic­ture, I didn’t really think any­thing about it. But I took it to with the work cam­era this week­end and for­got to get it off before I went to work today. My office­mate William has the card reader. When I asked him to get some pics off the comptuer, [...]
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Icon Size on Gnome

I know, you’ve been won­der­ing: “how do I change the icon size in Gnome?” I know I have. These over­sized icons have been killing me. As it turns out, there’s a pro­gram called gconf-editor, which is basi­cally a registry-editor style con­troller for all the crap they hid from you in Gnome, the [...]
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Something Rare

I took this pic when it iced here. I don’t post pics here very often, mostly b/c a) it’s a has­sle to upload a pic­ture, even on high speed (it involves a lot of click­ing which feels way less pro­duc­tive than typ­ing) and b) I rarely take pics worth sharing. But I wanted to [...]
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Mustard Seed vs. McWorld

I just started a book rec­om­mended to me by a friend here in town: Mus­tard Seed vs. McWorld. It’s by a guy named Tom Sine who calls him­self a futur­ist. It was writ­ten in 1999. He’s only got two years for his pre­dic­tion about vir­tual real­ity to come true–I think he missed [...]
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Heroes

Right now, NBC has all 18 episodes of Heroes up on their web­site. They stream off with about five 15-second com­mer­i­cals per 45-minute episode. I’m sure I’ve blogged about this before, but THIS is big media finally get­ting it. Charge adver­tis­ers through the nose for a chance to have your com­mer­i­cal be [...]
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Slaughterhouse 5 and the Gospel

I men­tioned before that Von­negut takes on the gospel in Slaugh­ter­house 5. He says that part of the prob­lem with the gospel is ‘its shoddy story-telling,’ that the les­son we learn after they cru­cify Jesus (because we know he’s God’s son the whole time and not just some reg­u­lar bum) is they shouldn’t have [...]
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Envelopes on Linux

May I say this: despite the instruc­tions here on print­ing envelopes in Ubuntu, it’s vir­tu­ally impossible. Thank good­ness for dual-booting.
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