April 2005 Thirty-one posts

• 13-Apr-2005
  Question With Boldness! Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr; Paris, Aug. 10, 1787: Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place divest yourself of all bias in favour of novelty & singularity of opinion. Indulge them in any other subject rather than that of religion. It is too important, & the...
• 12-Apr-2005
  Date With The Vet So tomorrow, Bas and I will be seeing a vet here in Simi about a “Health Certificate” as he will be egressing Simi Valley and be bound for the climes of Virginia within the week. He’s flying off to live with my parents, who are sans-pet at the moment with the loss of Ferris, a...
• 12-Apr-2005
  Comics, For Sale, Again Another aspect of having all my stuff back is that the Comics For Sale are actually available for Sale. Including some excellent copies of Frank Miller’s Sin City work, currently the vogue because of the film of the same name. In the past 2 months I’ve had to put some people off for a while...

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• 11-Apr-2005
  San Diego as seen via Google Maps Fun diversion! Sightseeing San Diego with Google Maps (Yeah, sometimes I still post to San Diego Blog).
• 11-Apr-2005
  I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences. Whew. Good weekend, tiring though. My feet hurt. Right pinkie toe was stubbed and had a chunk rip out on the murphy bed in the apartment which we are completely out of now. This morning I pulled the last items out of the storage where our stuff was. This house is nice. Big. We have...
• 09-Apr-2005
  Science Fiction Authors by Faith This page (via bb): Science Fiction/Fantasy Authors of Various Faiths is intriguing to me. Sort of… something I had never considered before, you know? Sadly, it does not list my favorites: Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, or William Gibson. Correction from Preston Hunter: Science Fiction Writers of Various Faiths is the SECOND page, like the overflow...

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• 08-Apr-2005
  Music, How I Missed Thee Oh man. It’s so nice to get my “mothership” computer — the G4 Mac, back into the mix. So, so, so nice. Perhaps the nicest perk is that I get to play my music collection. I’ve missed listening to: They Might Be Giants (271 songs, 9:57:48 total time); Frank Zappa (955 Songs, 2:22:45:15 total time)*;...
• 08-Apr-2005
  A Favorite Star Wars Interaction A pal-o-mine on IM was telling me about new stringent management at his work. It reminded me of a favorite Empire Strikes Back moment: [Darth Vader has just learned that Admiral Ozzel’s big blunder, and activates a viewscreen] Admiral Ozzel: [appearing onscreen with Captain Piett] Lord Vader, the fleet has moved out of lightspeed and...

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• 07-Apr-2005
  Cable & Wireless I am posting this from the newly-installed wireless connection linked to the Adelphia cable modem here at the new home in Simi Valley. Worked from here all day, oddly enough, as this is a pretty nice neighborhood and there is WiFi about. Nice to be letter-of-the-law legal though. 🙂 Tonight Bruce Sterling is speaking at...
• 04-Apr-2005
  Address The Chair We have a new address, very nearly. It’s in Simi Valley. I am sore and hurting from moving. The storage space we have we are nearly out of. We just have a few books, some paintings with glass, and a cat tree in there now. radness. The new house is nearly ready for us. We’ll...