June 2006
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Markdown : Daring Fireball →
Lightweight markup language by John Gruber which makes source files as readable as possible. Simplicity seems too limited at first, but presentation should be specified in CSS, plus Markdown allows HTML if absolutely needed.
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American Apparel - Sweat Shop Free Clothing →
Vertically Integrated Manufacturing in Downtown LA. Casual clothing that fits non-fat people.
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Lensbabies >>> Selective Focus SLR camera lenses →
Nikon F-Mount, but of course. Neat little lenses that are manually focused and allow the optical plane to be adjusted at will.
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a Song
No first class for me yesterday. The Delta flight was on a Song plane, though. Bright colors in the interior, well designed informative icons, little screens for each passenger, and hip music [I use this very loosely and only in comparison with the music played on Delta planes] during boarding.
The little screens pick up 20 live DirecTV stations, but reception was sometimes spotty. Oh, but...
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the Class
Yesterday was a Good Day. That was doubleplusgood, because I haven’t had one in a while. I really needed it.
I flew to San Jose, but I was late getting the ticket, so I had to take what I could get – no choice of time or stopovers. I booked with Delta, but for some reason I ended up on a tiny Continental Airlines plane out of Birmingham. The lady sitting next to me was old. She smelled...
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move like a Jellyfish
Who has seen the new iPod commercial? Sort of red or warm and maybe a little more psychedelic than commercials past. I would just like to point out to everyone the style of dance. Thats right, rhythm sort of means nothing. Definitely moving like a jellyfish. As is proved in other places, if its on TV, then it must be cool, therefore dancing like that is cool. I rest my case.
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the Building
Yesterday, I planned to write, but I was too tired. It all started this weekend. Well, on Friday, really. Some people consider Friday to be part of the weekend. I needed to finish some work then, but I didn’t. So I planned to finish on Saturday, but I went all Forrest Gump and couldn’t stop running, so work fell in between the cracks. The work had to be done by Monday morning, so...
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Religion & Politics
“In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.” - Mark Twain
Does anyone else ever wonder how accurate these quotations web site are? Who keeps them in check? How do we know that they aren’t just making this stuff up? At any rate, and by any author, I do like the above statement.