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Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin’ off Nantucket Sound from the nor’ east and the dogs are howlin’ for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the Ellie May, a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin’ and, Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of several screaming contests. this year’s winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Content, which challenges people to create the worst first line of a novel. Bulwer-Lytton, if you don’t know, was the one who first used “It was a dark and stormy night.”
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YouTube tribute to MJ (via Slate V)
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quote from a mug at the Farmer’s Diner in Quechee, VT
quote from a mug at the Farmer’s Diner in Quechee, VT
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Last year, I did “what’s in your bag?” on Twitter.  To mix it up a bit, here’s a photo of the applications I’m running.  It’s pretty boring:


pidgin (IM client, at the top left and top right)
Firefox 3.0.11 (top middle, open to Google Reader)
GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (bottom left, with code in the left pane and magit in the right)
Miro trunk (bottom right; it’s got Joe Biden because I’m watching Sunday’s Meet the Press)

What’s running on your desktop?

Last year, I did “what’s in your bag?” on Twitter. To mix it up a bit, here’s a photo of the applications I’m running. It’s pretty boring:

  • pidgin (IM client, at the top left and top right)
  • Firefox 3.0.11 (top middle, open to Google Reader)
  • GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (bottom left, with code in the left pane and magit in the right)
  • Miro trunk (bottom right; it’s got Joe Biden because I’m watching Sunday’s Meet the Press)

What’s running on your desktop?

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the peanuts I could be eating with Geico
the peanuts I could be eating with Geico
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tabdump: ultimate layout edition

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My new window garden, from clippings my mom sent me. An aloe plant, a pothos plant, a creeping charlie plant, and a spider plant!
My new window garden, from clippings my mom sent me. An aloe plant, a pothos plant, a creeping charlie plant, and a spider plant!
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[T]he only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people. George Vaillant, in response to the question “What have you learned from the Grant Study men?” (via The Atlantic Online | June 2009 | What Makes Us Happy? | Joshua Wolf Shenk)
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Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general Mark Rippetoe, off my new PVCF shirt. The quote on the back: “If it doesn’t make you stronger, it’ll probably kill you.”
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