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Monthly Archives: June 2006

Shake a Puddin

This is oddly hypnotic.

June 23, 2006

And so there is no trip to NY this weekend either, after some amount of planning. Yes, it hurts.
Maybe I’ll find somewhere to go skinny dipping this weekend. Swimmingholes.org is very cool, but I bet there are tons of places nearby that aren’t on the list.
I need to create an improved online backup solution [...]

June 15, 2006

Tonight is Sonic Youth. Woo. What will they be like without Jim O’Rourke? Will the new album be as boring as Pitchfork implied? Is it true that Kim Gordon is over 50?! (It is true, but she doesn’t look a day over 40 to me!)
Tomorrow night is cocktails at the University Club, I think. [...]

June 14, 2006

It looks like I will not be going into health policy, at least not this week. A copy of this might give me a few thoughts as to whether this is really the direction for me. (Is it really true that the editor previously authored a bestseller?) I definitely liked Michael Millenson’s Demanding Medical Excellence, [...]

June 12, 2006

Just 45 minutes in the gym is now enough to do me in. The effects of three months or so of idleness are truly amazing. Somewhere between 8- and 9-level resistance on the elliptical machine is a big bump that does me in every time. At 8, I can go forever. At 9, I’m sunk–out [...]

Testing, Testing

So is it possible to use Dave Winer’s OPML editor to post to a MT weblog? Let’s see.
Apparently, the answer is yes. Neat. Why neat? Because this is a good way to write.
But is there some way that I could post to this weblog and the OPML Editor weblog at the same time? Probably yes, [...]

Not Only a Great Actor

From Wikipedia:
Outside of daytime TV, [Alan] Thicke also composed (with then-wife Gloria Loring) the themes to the NBC sitcom Diff’rent Strokes and its spinoff The Facts of Life.
Guilty, guilty, guilty.

“No, said Burnham, communism is communism and Stalin is what you get.”

–Jeffrey Hart, paraphrasing James Burnham on the myth of Lenin’s corrupted legacy, in The Making of the American Conservative Mind.

This Makes Me Cringe

Very badly:
He sliced open my finger with a standard scalpel, inserted a tool to make a gap for the magnet, and tried to insert the magnet in one nonstop motion. The insertion didn’t work, and he widened the cut and tried again. This time it worked, and he closed the cut with a single suture. [...]

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