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April 30, 2009: there is an entire screen of numbers in front of me: literally about a thousand numbers in the six-digit range, with more of the same that the display doesn't currently feature lurking around. on one level i'm happy as a clam, but the numbers really don't bode well for the future of this project.
April 3, 2009: i want one person, just one, to stand up and say "i'm pro-gay marriage, but i admit that according to my best interpretation of the law it's unconstitutional" or "i'm against gay marriage, but i admit that according to my best interpretation of the law it's constitutional." just one.
March 4, 2009: the odds of you regretting that you wasted a minute sixteen on this music video are small.
February 27, 2009: right now there's an email in my inbox with subject "i picked up at least 3 hrs of work a week with a 7 yr old girl." in the abstract, where i sometimes parse it, it sounds horribly illegal, but actually it's just my mom, who works as a private tutor.
December 10, 2008: from a cnn article about unemployment, i find this hilarious: Since mid-September, she's been applying to an average of 40 jobs a day, but, she said, "it just sort of feels like my resume is going into a giant stack with everybody else's."

hey lady, you are part of the problem -- if everyone is applying for 40 jobs a day, then on an average, yes, there will be a giant stack of 40 resumes a day that yours is going into, even if the number of applicants equals the number of jobs. i'm not saying that hers is a bad strategy, but it's awfully naive to defect and not expect other people to defect with this conclusion.
December 8, 2008: what i don't understand is why a radio station that doesn't play kid rock, and would never play sweet home alabama, is playing kid rock's version of sweet home alabama. marketing is a weird, weird thing.
September 8, 2008: is it illegal to park a car in while parallel parking on the side of the road? obviously it's quite unethical, but i'm curious if it's illegal, and, if not, what the hell you are supposed to do about it as the victim.
March 6, 2008: i find this typo incredibly amusing somehow: "in particular when the brokerage house they work for has investment baking relations with the firm they recommend." investment baking! yum _and_ profitable.
February 26, 2008: aha! "The reluctance to violate standard procedures and to act innovatively can also be an effective defense against subsequent regret because it is easy to imagine doing the conventional thing and more difficult to imagine doing the unconventional one." of course! makes perfect sense.
February 19, 2008: "The pass statement does nothing. It can be used when a statement is required syntactically but the pgraom requires no action." that's right, it's a language (python) containing a command whcih does... nothing.