Month: October 2007
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Dead Hamsters and Dead Leaves
My Xbox 360 finally came back (after being sent off for surgery). Except it’s not my Xbox 360. It’s somebody else’s. Sure, this one works just fine, while mine didn’t, but it’s just not the same. I feel like the kid whose parents “accidentally” killed my hamster in an incident involving plastic tubing and saran…
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Capital Idea
I was reading a charming little article at New Scientist, called “How Does it Feel to Die?”, and came across the following passage: Despite the public boasting of several prominent executioners in late 19th-century Britain, a 1992 analysis of the remains of 34 prisoners found that in only about half of cases was the cause…
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We Got a New Camera
So this is a photo-blog now. The camera is a Canon Powershot SD750 and it’s very nice. It can recognize human faces and focus on them, just like The Terminator. It has not, however, killed anybody or time traveled. Yet. I don’t like people much, though, so I only take pictures of dogs. Cuuuute! Cuuuuuuute!…
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