i walked out of the front door, proceeded down the walk to pass next to my car, while trying to get some stuff into my pocket, tripped and fell hard. and just like the time that Lorrie knocked me down on the ice, i roadrashed the side of my knee and my hand. though this […]

today was a good day for getting things done. i not only got rid of the tv and vcr, but i also cleaned the beater, the beater is the car that i drove for 10 years or so. now i have to give it away or sell it, so i had to clean all my […]

SPURRIER OUT?. MSNBC reports, Steve Spurrier resigned as coach of the Washington Redskins on Tuesday, ending a failed attempt to bring his Fun 'n' Gun offense to… [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY]

J-Son & Jeremy Insisted that I try this. You are a Grassroots Activist. Anti-capitalist,anti-patrist, anti-authoritarian, whatever,you're just fuckin' anti. You probably tellpeople you hate postmodernism, but thatassertion elides the complex interdependenciesamong academic poststructuralism and street-level activism. You don't bathe regularly, andknow at least one person who has scabbies…. [Flailing in the Surf] ——- i had […]

well not from blogging, but from work, mainly cause its new year's eve, which isn't a real holiday, but then i have 370 hours of accumulated annual leave so any day is a holiday. so my plan for today is to give my tv and vcr to the ymca thrift store then go get some […]

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS MobiQuitous 2004 Home The First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services August 22-25, 2004 Boston, Massachusetts, USA (ACM sponsorship pending) *********************************************************************** The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services […]

Papers Written by Googlers. Papers Written by Googlershttp://labs.google.com/papers.html A partial list of papers written by people now at Google, showing the range of backgrounds of people in Google Engineering. Very interesting resource of papers in the information retrieval and related fields! [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker] ——- some interesting research here.

Osama Fin Laden. The fish that threatened national security. Lara Hayhurst, a student at Pace University, needed to take one small thing through the checkpoint at LaGuardia Airport: her pet beta fish MJ. This was, however, an apparent threat to the security of the airport and Lara's flight home to Pittsburgh for winter break. Flush […]

International Computers and Philosophy Conferences — proposal deadline for next summer's conference in Italy is in January. [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

Call For Submissions: Digital Media Project. Can a digital rights management (DRM) standard support the rights that users have in traditional media? The Digital Media Project is planning the first conference to bring DRM architects and user rights experts together. [Linux Journal]