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Monthly Archives: July 2003

The Game

Harry Camp, Alston Ramsay, Scott Judah, Matt Tokson, some freshman, and I played croquet on the Mall yesterday to mark Harry’s departure from the district. Though Scott and I took a quick lead (well, he did, anyway), Alston’s firepower knocked us off course repeatedly, giving Harry and the freshman several opportunities to reach and then [...]

Cancun is Burning and I Don’t Care

March 31 and June 26 are the dates that sealed the fate of the Cancun World Trade Organization Ministerial conference. While the conference wonít begin until September 10, the writing is already on the wall: doom, gloom, and failure.
Echoing a growing consensus, one insider told me that ìthings are going to get worse before [...]

Sounds About Right

The Post on the CR Nat. Con.
Guess I missed the more erudite bits of Warrior’s speech.

Turn her over, get her upside-down, cover her with your sheet, put a bag over her head, and get your thing done with

(advice given by a cab driver last night)

Are we having fun yet?

Why such sparse posting? I’m trying to avoid these:
- pitiful navel-gazing (does this count?)
- boring political explication
- material that would be upsetting to friends
- complaining
- the vulgar
- excuses (does this count?)
- technical dorkery
- the deliberately offbeat
- poses
- the depressing, being depressed, signs of depression, etc. (does this count?)
I think that’s pretty much it. When I [...]

The train

Is slow today. Plenty of time to read, anyway.

The train

Is slow today. Plenty of time to read, anyway.

This sucks

Yahoo/Overture is dusting off its patent portfolio to give Google a good reaming.
It’s obviously way to early to say who’s going to win this battle, but I think it’s pretty clear even now who the losers are going to be…

Lots

Either tomorrow or early next week, I’ll probably move Dartblogs over to a new server. The chief advantage to start now is that Moveable Type runs much more quickly on the new hardware (probably three times as fast; faster if/when I can get mod_perl configured properly; MT seemed to be losing track of perl modules [...]

The intern game

A Leadership Institute intern told me how they test new interns for libertarian-ness:
…[The program coordinator] went around the bus and asked everybody if he was for or against vending machines in public places selling heroin to three-year olds. Most, loving liberty in all its messiness and complexity, were in favor. One against, though, made a [...]