Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Grandpa Maximon
The Guatemalans believe in some really cool stuff. Not sure I’m bold enough to bring one of his icons into our house, though. I mean, what if we run out of Coca-Cola and smokes?
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Second place is first place loser
Well, my inaugural fantasy football season is over. Somehow, despite not having a freaking clue of what I was doing (and it being a year I actually have watched the least football in… ages), my team somehow limped into the championship game against Jeremy. I knew I was screwed. I barely got past Carol in…
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Nice threads
I have been working on Fancy-Pants quite a bit in the last couple of weeks. This is an AJAX layer over Voyager’s WebVoyage — an attempt to de-suck-ify its interface a bit. Why is it called Fancy-Pants? Well, Voyager still has the same underwear, it’s just got a new set of britches. There are two…
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The Soul-sucking vacuum that is EAD
I have a very conflicted relationship with our archives department. While their projects still need to get done, their services get very little use (especially when compared to other pending projects) and every time I get near any of their projects, it starts to become “Ross Singer and the Tar Baby”. Everything, EVERY SINGLE THING,…
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Upgrading my environment
I have been trying out some new technologies, both at work and at home. Now, this is unusual for me. I don’t generally like environmental change in my workspace– I get hung up on it and have a difficult time focusing. This all started with getting set up with Synergy 2. For a while, my…
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The Sad Legacy of Aquaman
Growing up, watching “Superfriends”, it was easy to ignore Aquaman. After all, I was probably more into Marvel Comics and wasn’t really into swimming all that much. He seemed a little pathetic in my 7 year old mind; basically everything had to be contrived to accomodate his powers. Apparently, I wasn’t alone. He appeared an…
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RSS and the OPAC
The more I think about it, the more I think RSS feeds from the OPAC are a waste of time and energy. What is the appeal of this? I mean, really?
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I went to RATATAT last night at the EARL. Anyone who has talked to me about music in last several months would know how completely obsessed I have been with them. I’ve turned (or tried to turn) almost everybody near me on to them. I had been anticipating this show since I saw it listed,…
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Ad-hockfest
I’ll be leading ‘Ad-hockfest’ at Access 2006. This was organized for the nearly 30 people on the waiting list for Hackfest and we’ll choose from the same list of projects as the regular Hackfest groups. We might even work on the same projects as the ‘real’ Hackfest. I’m not sure how we’ll present the outcome,…
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“I dropped my pick”
Library Geeks #4 is out. I’m back (instead of being the ‘Poltergeek’ of episode 3), and Dan set this one up in kind of a neat way. He certainly leads and guides the dialogue, but it’s much more of a roundtable and informal discussion. No doubt this is largely due to the fact we’re all…
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