| Archiving for the soul. |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|09:23 pm] |
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I've been getting a little nostalgic lately after reconnecting with a bunch of people, and I've been thinking about my LiveJournal. I've had this journal since 2002 (that's a lot of internet history right there, doncha know), but back in 2005 some fuckhead got into my account and deleted everything. I never did figure out how that happened, since I only updated my journal from home. Anyways, it happened, and I was pissed because I lost a lot of memories that I fail to keep in my head.
I wasn't ever sure how many friends-locked entries that I had, so I never bothered trying the Wayback Machine. I don't know what motivated me to try it today, but I did, I was pleasantly surprised to find that a lot of my old entries have been archived. :D I think I friends-locked most of my posts after 2002, so I didn't get it all back, but it's still really cool that I got as many as I did.
I feel like part of my brain has been returned to me. I'm going to re-post my old entries with their original dates so I don't lose them again.
...what the hell was with this [cheese] thing I used to post?! It's funny going back and reading this shit.
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| New Neighbourhood |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|07:43 pm] |
Hello,
I'm probably moving away from a neighbourhood i know and love, Commercial Drive, to live near Joyce skytrain station. Without having spent too much time there yet, what's around there? What do people think of the area? |
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| With the greatest of ease |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|07:32 pm] |
vs. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ultrapower on Facebook:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
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1 |W U D ' M O N Y ' =| 1
2 | S O N A T I N E " - | 2
3 | - E ' E E L - | 3
4 |' V ' - '| 4
5 | K I - - | 5
6 | Q I " " " | 6
7 | U ' ' C ' ' | 7
8 |P I U ' A I ' =| 8
9 |U T ' A G ' ' | 9
10 |R " P " L " " | 10
11 |L O R R I E S - | 11
12 |' E - ' - '| 12
13 | O X O ' ' - | 13
14 | - " " - | 14
15 |= ' = ' =| 15
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a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
Score: 226-141
Opp last move: 3H EEL 11
My rack: ??AERTZ
Nothing spectacular by expert standards, but I liked it. |
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| p.s. |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|07:07 pm] |
Favorite interaction today:
(Hears the idea)
"Are you looking for institutional investors?"
Me: "Well, we are a nonprofit, but we are working with a for-profit that will be raising a few million soon."
"Oh, we don't touch anything under twenty million. Thanks, bye!"
That's the first time someone has had a problem with seasteading not being expensive enough :). |
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| wow. |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|09:01 pm] |
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Torchwood: Children of Earth gets into some seriously DARK. SHIT. on Day 4. |
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| FreedomFest thoughts, day 1 |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|07:02 pm] |
Foot traffic in the exhibition area was pretty slow, which was a bummer. Conference is very focused on talks, exhibition is pretty secondary. Got some decent traffic during the long afternoon coffee break though. Hopefully it will improve over the next couple days - I think a lot of attendees aren't here yet.
Tried to go to a few talks, but they were terrible. I was much more interested in reading blog entries on my phone than the talks, which I thought was an interesting statement about the new world of personalized media consumption. My favorite bloggers are more interesting to me than the speakers chosen for this audience. Although another issue may be that Freedom Fest seems to be selling speaking spots - that's why I am not talking, I didn't want to pay to talk (people usually pay me!). So that presumably leads to lower speaker quality.
Also, I just find a lot of libertarian topics to be either uninteresting or exasperating. While I find my new strain of libertarianism to be exciting and hopeful, it leads me to see much libertarian activism as "policy masturbation". (Speaking of which, great tweet from @openworld retweeting @MikeBennet: "Think Tanks - Carefully thought out inaction?"
Anyway, despite the light traffic, had lots of interesting conversations with people. Definitely the people here are my favorite part. Some skepticism, but lots of people who have either heard of us and love us, or hadn't heard of us and love us. Build it and they will come?
Time for dinner / schmoozing / partying and more extrovert high! I've been trying to speak more slowly and deliberately even while I am on major extrovert high, with a little success. |
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| PVM WWW/MA-Sin |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|05:45 pm] |
Made a MA sinner that was actually really good in hell, and could also be used as a PVP sinner too. Went through almost everything with ease. Biggest problem I had is the usual one. PI's. However I am getting rid of that problem as I go, and it will soon be no problem whatsoever. Currently at lvl 81
( Read more... )
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| Cheap/free contact lens fittings? |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|04:59 pm] |
I got my eyes checked this year and used up my one-exam-per-48-months on my UBC insurance. However I did it with the intention of only getting glasses and not contacts.
I am contemplating a trial of a few pairs of contacts because I haven't used them in years and they might be useful from time to time. (And, admittedly, because I want to dress up for a costume party where my glasses would just ruin it.) I called my optometrist's office and they would charge $48-68 for a fitting including one pair of trial lenses. And it won't be covered by insurance at all.
Does anyone know any locations in Vancouver that would do a cheaper/free contact lens fitting if I already have a prescription? With perhaps cheap or free sample contacts? |
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| How does one |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|04:54 pm] |
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How does one go about making a long post without the whole damn thing taking half the screen? I noticed how people have a little "Link" to read the rest of the post. I am not a computer wiz and never will be, but I will at least try to make my posts only take up a short area of the screen. I wanna post my way of making a MA-sin for PVM. |
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| Movies |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|11:25 pm] |
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http://kyleboddy.com/2009/07/09/movies/ http://kyleboddy.com/?p=22 I recently saw two movies in the past week, which is quite an accomplishment, because I don’t really enjoy sitting down for 2 hours to watch a film. I’m the ADD-type and need stimulation from multiple sources to keep me interested, or at least a two-way street of interaction (playing games, for example).
First up is Moon – an indie film by Duncan Jones (David Bowie’s son) starring Sam Rockwell. It’s very, very good – it’s about a man on a three year contract in space, mining Helium (now the Earth’s primary energy source) by himself with only a computer to talk to and delayed video messages to Earth to his wife and kids as interaction. Sam Rockwell’s character begins to lose his mind and starts suffering strange health problems, prompting him to wonder just exactly what the “rescue team” will do to him when they get there. Go see this movie ASAP.
Next, The Hurt Locker. I saw this movie based on tons of recommendations from various sources. It “stars” Guy Pearce and a few other celebrities, but they all have very minor parts, which is pretty cool. The main protagonist is an EOD bomb tech who defuses IEDs and other dangerous ordnance in Iraq. The movie has no real climax or point, and while it drags on in parts, it is very authentic and isn’t your polarizing typical war movie that either makes you hate foreigners or feel guilty about being an American – it just aims to show you how life as a bomb tech in Iraq sucks, and how it warps the minds of soldiers who have been over there for far too long with no real objective. This movie was pretty good, but it’s not nearly as wonderful as I’ve been told. Still, it’s worth checking out if you have no other movies on your plate. |
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| "District 9" movie and South African history |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|04:15 pm] |
 I wasn't aware of this forthcoming movie until some of my co-workers mentioned it today, and watching the trailers, it wasn't the movie itself that caught me (but it looks promising too), but rather the usage of South African settings and historical footage from the apartheid era. As a South Africa, some of it is just too eerily familiar. It's just really apartheid again, with a twist that it's against "real aliens" now, not the forced alienation of the black population.
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Trailer #1
Original footage: Starting at 0:35, for 6 seconds.
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Trailer #2
Same original footage, 0:26 for 2 seconds.
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Original short film
The SABC logo is too new for 1990, the one used is post-1994.
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| Movies |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|11:25 pm] |
Originally published at kyleboddy.com. You can comment here or there. I recently saw two movies in the past week, which is quite an accomplishment, because I don’t really enjoy sitting down for 2 hours to watch a film. I’m the ADD-type and need stimulation from multiple sources to keep me interested, or at least a two-way street of interaction (playing games, for example).
First up is Moon – an indie film by Duncan Jones (David Bowie’s son) starring Sam Rockwell. It’s very, very good – it’s about a man on a three year contract in space, mining Helium (now the Earth’s primary energy source) by himself with only a computer to talk to and delayed video messages to Earth to his wife and kids as interaction. Sam Rockwell’s character begins to lose his mind and starts suffering strange health problems, prompting him to wonder just exactly what the “rescue team” will do to him when they get there. Go see this movie ASAP.
Next, The Hurt Locker. I saw this movie based on tons of recommendations from various sources. It “stars” Guy Pearce and a few other celebrities, but they all have very minor parts, which is pretty cool. The main protagonist is an EOD bomb tech who defuses IEDs and other dangerous ordnance in Iraq. The movie has no real climax or point, and while it drags on in parts, it is very authentic and isn’t your polarizing typical war movie that either makes you hate foreigners or feel guilty about being an American – it just aims to show you how life as a bomb tech in Iraq sucks, and how it warps the minds of soldiers who have been over there for far too long with no real objective. This movie was pretty good, but it’s not nearly as wonderful as I’ve been told. Still, it’s worth checking out if you have no other movies on your plate. |
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| Philly pool flap redux |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|03:26 pm] |
(I resisted the temptation of the obligatory rule that all articles involving Philadephia should spell things such as "phlap")
Here are some followups to yesterday's entry about possible discrimination and a "whites-only" pool at a Philadelphia club. At first glance it seems at least somewhat possible this was just a horribly managed situation compounded with a poorly-worded statement (particularly the use of the word "complexion" -- it's not clear whether that word was in original club statements or was used by news reports). But in the end it still looks pretty bad for the club if you ask me.
( Various news excerpts, cut for length ) |
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| Police on Kingsway |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|02:13 pm] |
I was driving down Kingsway around 11, 11:30 this morning and on Kingsway near Joyce, right across the street from Safeway, there was a bus pulled over with cop cars on either side of it with their lights flashing.
Anyone one what was going on on the bus? |
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| West sidewalks on Cambie Bridge |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|01:25 pm] |
Is the west sidewalk on the Cambie Bridge open to pedestrians or is it still closed due to construction?
Thanks. |
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| Auditing courses |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|12:40 pm] |
I'm currently enrolled in the last three classes I need to fulfill my graduation requirements and intend to apply to Master's programs within the next few months. I'm pretty dead set on going to grad school, but unfortunately, due to extenuating circumstances, my grades these past two years haven't been very strong. My overall average is probably enough to get me in to some programs, but since the last two years count the most, I think my prospects are pretty grim. As a last grasp at improving my transcript and getting some more experience in the fields I'm interested in for post-grad work, I'm thinking of auditing a few classes. Has anyone does this? I've never officially done it so I'm not sure how it works. Tell me all you know!
Oh, and if it's relevant, the courses I want to audit are COGS 300: Designing Cognitive Systems, PHIL 320: Mathematical Logic, and PHIL 402: Phil. of Mind.
Thanks in advance, yo! |
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| PSYC 309B Final |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|12:52 pm] |
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Who here has taken PSYC 309B online? I'm wondering how the final is-I've never taken a 6credit online course, and I'm worried about the fact I have to learn a years worth of material for 1 exam. |
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| Tip: Recover your password via text message |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|02:00 pm] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGmailBlog/~3/DDWp9Zk72Zw/tip-recover-your-password-via-text.html Posted by Cristelle Blackford, Online Operations Strategist
Even the best of us forget our passwords from time to time. In fact, recovering passwords is one of the top reasons people visit the Gmail Help Center. To help with these situations, we recently added the ability to recover your password via text message.
To turn this on for your account, just sign in, select 'Change Password Recovery Options,' enter your cell phone number and click 'Save.'
Next time you forget your password, enter your username on the password-assistance page, and Google will text you a recovery code. No need to check another email account or even leave the page.
In general, it's a good idea to add as many password recovery options to your Google Account as possible, like a secondary email address and security question. And don't forget to keep them up-to-date.
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| Wherever Alice Goes, Prairie Dogging Happens |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|01:00 pm] |
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http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/archives/009466.html Female motherly coworker who needs her back cracked: Will it hurt?
Young, hot, male coworker: It might. I usually do it from behind. I will kind of hug you while I do it quick.
Female motherly coworker: I don't know if I will like that. I don't want it to hurt me. Why don't you do it from the front?
Young, hot, male coworker: Okay, turn around.
Female motherly coworker: Ah, that's it! Right there. Oh, I needed that for such a long time...
Mountville, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Wow
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| GNE |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|10:35 am] |
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Given the soggy state of the site, and the fact that the DSL line is still not entirely stable, I think my current plan is to daytrip GNE on Saturday, rather than camping the entire weekend. Not ideal, but it will serve. |
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| begging the question |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|09:43 am] |
The question of the C.I.A.’s candor with the Congressional oversight committees has been hotly disputed since Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the agency of failing to disclose in a 2002 briefing that it had used waterboarding against a terrorism suspect. Ms. Pelosi said the agency routinely misled Congress, though she later said she intended to fault the Bush administration rather than career intelligence officials.
Since then, Republicans have called Ms. Pelosi’s complaint an unwarranted attack on the integrity of counterterrorism officers and have demanded an investigation.
I think the point is to figure out whether our counterterrorism efforts of the past eight years have, in fact, had any integrity to them. |
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