Monthly Archives: March 2007

Dawnie, greyhound, age 11

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Eric

My mother just informed me that her greyhound Dawnie was diagnosed with an osteosarcoma today, and had to be euthanized.  She had been in pain since late last week, and although it’s possible that she could have been kept alive … Continue reading →

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Archivists delete their own archives!

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Eric

From the Too Surreal to be Fiction Department: The Society of American Archivists has decided to delete the archive of their own mailing list! [via BoingBoing] I hadn’t even heard of the SAA, or I’d have joined many years ago, … Continue reading →

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Lisa Nowak is now an ex-astronaut

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Eric

NASA asked the U.S. Navy to end Nowak’s detail to NASA as an astronaut “because the agency lacks the administrative means to deal appropriately with the criminal charges pending against Nowak. Because Nowak is a naval officer on assignment to … Continue reading →

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Luke and I won the Core War contest

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Eric

In CSC 387 class, we were offered extra credit points for participating in a Core War style challenge, with entries were required to run on the machine defined in Appendix C of Computer Science: An Overview by J. Glenn Brookshear.  … Continue reading →

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Items banned in the courthouse

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Eric

I may be called to jury duty this week. According to the court’s web page: Please do not bring the following items with you: mace, hair spray, laser pointers, knitting needles, scissors, nail files/clippers, or pocket knives. These items will … Continue reading →

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The objective of the public education system

Posted on March 6, 2007 by Eric

From a speech given by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson before the start of the first World War: We want one class to have a liberal education.  We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the … Continue reading →

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Free Software client for Cisco VPN

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Eric

Several years ago I tried to get a Linux system to connect to a Cisco VPN concentrator. There is a proprietary Cisco client for Linux, but it uses a closed-source kernel module, and I an not willing to use such … Continue reading →

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Leaking blue liquid

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Eric

In response to one of my recent dreams, Richard wrote: I hereby decree that, henceforth, the expression “leaking blue liquid” shall be mean “I did something wrong, but I don’t know what it is.” Examples: “I seem to have leaked … Continue reading →

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Nether region

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Eric

Seen on a forum:  [someone] might get a wild hair up their alien probe-hole

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