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Happy Birthday to me.
E*Trade even sent me a birthday card. They must really care.

How many spaces should there be between sentences, one or two? I think one.

“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history—with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.”
-Mitch Ratliffe

Caterina has a great post observing an emotional conversation between two macho guys.

A joke(from Andy, a.k.a. Drew)
How do you make a dead baby float?
With two scoops of ice cream and two scoops of dead baby!Hahaha!

The following is how I spent 15 minutes of my life last night.It is one of my favorite AOL instant messenger conversations ever, between me (ktheory8) and my friend Stephanie from college:
ktheory8 (11:46:04 PM): hello?ktheory8 (11:47:18 PM): tttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhppppppppp.ktheory8 (11:47:52 PM): I hope you made it to Conneticut (sp.) or Massachussetts (sp.) or where ever safely.ktheory8 […]

I’m home in Binghamton, NY for the summer. It’s good to be back, yes. At least for now. I think that for the next few days, I’ll enjoy Binghamton’s familiarity, but then I’ll miss the big city, the excitement and diversity.
The task at hand is for me to find a summer job.

I wish I were at the Chicago Blues Festival. Alas, I’m packing to go home. Next year, Blues Fest.

Parker, the first person I met at U of C, started a weblog. At the moment, it has only one post.

Blast from the PastAmy Penrose has her own domain. Amy and I went to the same high school. In fact, I even lived in her old house. It’s a small Internet (wink to Evelyn).

VerbosityIn the past 18 months, I’ve written 42,000 words in this weblog. For the next 18 months, my goal is to add 100,000 better, more meaningful words.

A Rave ReviewTuesday, I perused the local bookstore after my exams, and happened upon The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. That small book has completely changed my ideas about writing style. I wish to erase everything I wrote before and rewrite it using my new paradigms of simplicity and clarity.
Elements of […]

Tampabay: Student removed from class because of drawings (from the St. Petersburg Times). This demonstrates the excessive and paranoid reactions to school violence. Of course, if the media didn’t have such a field day over every school shooting, there would be less violence, and less fear.
Discuss at Metafilter.

Historical Atlas of the 20th Century, the creation of Matthew White, graphically displays many social and political trends over the past 100 years. It’s an amazing web site, and really interesting. Also, Jason Kottke created an animated version (GIF, 112K) of the governments map throughout the 20th century.
Linked via Metafilter.

My piece, A Baker’s Dozen Haikus, is today’s feature on �6�9ber. Sweet.
I didn’t even know my submission had been accepted for publication until Evelyn told me. Mad props for Evelyn, yo.

Near-future attempts to regain my position on the ever-advancing crest of technology
This summer

new 80GB hard drive for music, videos
upgrade to 384MB RAM (while RAM’s cheap)
upgrade to Windows 2000 Professional, Office XP, then Windows XP in October.

A year from now

Cell Phone/PDA combination device for über-connectivity and organization
Apple iBook for mobile computing