Voder-Vocoder

Work I’ve been doing

I woke up to a reading of Henry Climbs a Mountain this morning.

NIST Internet Time Servers

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night
Until the stars are all alight.
Mist and shadow, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade ! Away shall fade!

—Tolkien(*)

(*) In the movie Return of the King the original word of the walking song were altered. “Mist and twilight” became “mist and shadow.” Lines line “Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,/And then to bed! And then to bed!” were left out because they were not sufficently moody.

I like the movie version.

"Kids hate CDs for Christmas"

"a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America"

stickering campaigns.

Here are the templates used by this site.

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Two recent blogs deserve links: Pamela Jones’ GrokLaw and the Abusable Technologies Awareness Center. The first is devoted to discussions of the legal aspects of OSS. (Since May, all of the articls are about SCO.) The latter is composed of 19 panelists, including several names known to me. I’ve added them to my bookmarks list.

There’s snow on the ground, as of yesterday afternoon. It’s like livng in a completely different city! One of the things I love about this town is that the seasons feel much more pronounced than they ever did in the south.

I went through and made a bunch of changes to wohc this weekend. First, I finally switched over to movable type. Then I marked all code on the site with a suitable license. Then I added a FAQ and site map.

Wonderfully wasted time.

Had a couple of odd dreams recently. A few nights ago, I had a dream that Iwas driving somewhere with Mark in his car and for some reason he had a trunk full of old clothes he wanted to donate to some organization. It was sunday morning and the usual suspects (goodwill, st. vinnie’s) were closed. We just wated to get rid of them, so we decided to stop by a church that was supposed to have a place to take old clothes in the basement.

Mark had the wonderful idea of driving his car into the freight elevator to make this quicker, but then we couldn’t get it out, and meanwhile we couldn’t find where we were supposed to go and the church was filling up with people and it was one of these mega-churches and we were lost in the basement and they were mad that we had left a car in the elevator, but we couln’t even find the elevator!

Last night I had a dream that I was wandering downtown and I wadered into a house and there were some evil people in the house and the house was full of secret passeges. Let this be a lesson to you: don’t enter other people’s houses!

The use of run-on sentences is deliberate when describing dreams.

Here are some links I didn’t want to lose.

"Please stop exploring your sexuality. It really freaks us out."

"…and the money truck will be by around 9:30."

"Don’t worry about going mad, there’s no avoiding it!"