Voder-Vocoder

From the Daily Show

I know that most of my friends are believers, but if I hear anyone mention anything in conjuntion with any belief in hard vitalism anytime soon, I might do something violent.

Sorry for the inconvience.

“No mystical energy field controls my destiny - it’s all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.”

When you listen to the soundtrack to Star Wars, do you hear all the music that John Williams stole from, or the other way around?

An open letter to the cute red-headed girl whom I often see in the elevator and to whom I’ve never spoken and who was either giving me the evil eye or checking me out yesterday.

March 8, 2005

Dear cute red-headed girl whom I often see in the elevator and to whom I’ve never spoken and who was either giving me the evil eye or checking me out yesterday,

So… Nice weather?

Sincerly,

Hal W. Canary

The noble ash is our true ancestor…

Is there somethig wrong with me that I slept 14 hours today?

I feel like consuming massive amounts of caffine and bouncing off the wall all night.

Some people should not be allowed to design software.

Bag News Notes always has a lot to say about photojournalism.

Here’s one of the more artistic and symbolic things I’ve seen in a while.

Warning/Disclaimer.

Te following is a geeky linux-related post. Chances are, you will want to skip it. And I promised that this post wouldn’t be geeky. Sorry.

Shane the physics major (not the monk, the other one) introduced me to IceWM by way of Mandrake. This might be my new lightweight WM of choice. So without further ado, I present:

Howto Install IceWM under Fedora. (moved to a new page)

Warning/Disclaimer.

Te following is a geeky linux-related post. Chances are, you will want to skip it. If you are a cute yet non-geeky cyber-stalker, please skip to the next post, which will be about politics, grammar, or food.

I see that Fedora Extras (The add-ons meant to supplement Fedora Core) have finally been moved to the download.fedora.redhat.com server. I also notice that new packages have been added, such as the ever-popular packages
gqview, perl-GD, sodipodi, gnofract4d, and starfighter

“No way I’m calling anyone ‘Father’ or ‘Your Holiness’ unless they are, in fact, my father or made of Swiss cheese.”

“You should always call people what they wish to be called…I get to choose what you call me.” —

“Yes, but in some cases, isn’t that tacitly agreeing to participate in a political system you may find distateful? Why should Prince Harry get treated to more fawning nomenclature (‘Your Royal Highness…’) than Rosa Parks?”

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In my polisci class, we discussed congressional redistricting. This post is an attempt to summarize the situation.

Irregularly Shaped Districts
1991-2000
(SOURCE)

Illinois District 4

Illinois District 1

Tenn. District 4

Tenn. District 3

Redistricting Roulette!