Voder-Vocoder

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas): "None of your civil liberties matter much after you're dead."

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.): "'Give me liberty or give me death.'"

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Below the fold: a cartoon from 1989. The story of my year.
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For sale:

One park bench. Several years old, but barely used.

$30 if you pick it up at my place.

$50: I will grab a friend, and we will haul it to your house (anywhere in the Madison area) ourselves.

I picked up a goose feather some years back. I just tried to make a pen out of it. It didn't work well.

If I ever have to travel back in time, I'm taking a handful of steel nibs with me.

Trip to FL, 2005 November.

Poll:

What's yout thermostat set at?

I'm wavering between 62°F and 64°F.

I don't think it's possible to communicate effectivly over the telephone. I feel like I miss every third word. So much of verbal communication is actually visual.

My folks play Sudoku. I looked at the game and decided it was boring. So I wrote a program to solve it.

Shouldn't humans stick to puzzles on which we can outperform computers? Word games and such?

It's 10:00 AM December 5, 2005. I am supposed to be in Memphis right now. I wonder if there is still a CK's on Park?

The last few days I've felt amazingly good. I've been waking up early, around 08:00 or 09:00, getting the right amount of caffeine (2L of DC are $.89 at Woodman's this week.), and sleeping nine or ten hours a day. The down side is that I've been falling asleep right after work every night.

It's nice not to sleep through most of the nine-hour day.

I may even finish cleaning the Fortress of Solitude today.

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Driving around in the snow last night was stressful. Maybe I'll get used to it. But I had no mishaps.

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I'm going to wait until it warms up a few more degrees before I go outside and change the headlight on the car.

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How could you ever use a text editor without the downcase-word, upcase-word, and capitalize-word functions? In Emacs it's Alt-l, Alt-u, and Alt-c.