Monthly Archives: July 2007

My Band Manifesto

July 6, 2007 | Leave a comment
Last night, we had our first band prac­tice. It went ok. But I think we’re all kind of going dif­fer­ent direc­tions, so I sent every­body in the band a huge rant about what my goals were. I prob­a­bly should have reread it before I sent it. And I prob­a­bly should reread it before I post [...]
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FireFox Web Dev bar

July 6, 2007 | Leave a comment
Don’t get me wrong. I love Opera. It’s eas­ily the best web browsers. When you down­load it, it’s already set up the way http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ would be after you spent a day and half pimp­ing FF w/ extensions. That said, I recently did a lit­tle bit of web devel­ope­ment, and found out that, with the web [...]
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What Frederick Douglass Said

July 5, 2007 | Leave a comment
Via digg.com, I found a speech by Fred­er­ick Dou­glass. It’s well worth the read­ing, if noth­ing else to remem­ber how pow­er­ful good ora­tion can be.
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David Foster Wallace…on Video?

July 5, 2007 | Leave a comment
I’ve raved before about how I love David Fos­ter Wal­lace (see here, here, and here, for example). Now, I’ve found out that, via the magic of the Wikipedia, there are video (inter­views?!) of DFW avail­able. You know what I’ll be doing tonight.…
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Freebird! or Play Some Skynyrd, Man!

July 4, 2007 | Leave a comment
I’ve always won­dered why peo­ple yell ‘Free­bird!’ at con­certs. or, almost as fre­quently, ‘Play some skynyrd, man!’ Peo­ple tell me it’s because that’s just what you say. But you’ll notice that no mat­ter where you are, or who’s yelling it, it always sounds the same. That’s weird to me, and it makes me think that it’s [...]
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Sam Stecher Strikes Back

July 2, 2007 | Leave a comment
Once again, Sam at Wish­ing for Fic­tion has knocked one out of the park. He’s got this amaz­ing poem called “Anony­mous Jesus.” Here’s a sample: “Mir­a­cles are not of the things I believe inbut some­time I wish I was Anony­mous JesusI don’t have a Mes­siah com­plexI just want to healwalk­ing streets and hall­ways that are [...]
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