happie birthday daddie!!!

whatever i said for sports night last week applies to futurama, too.

boston was great and it was wonderful to see you two, ashlie and travis!

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ve sonunda.

this is one case where you're glad you were wrong.

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happie summer solstice everyone! it's all downhill from here.

sports night was one of the best shows on television ever. and, of course, it got cancelled.

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ray recently submitted a most touching story to my music and memory page, you should most definitely read it.

"then she turns on the television, some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems." - chuck palahniuk in choke.

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happie father's day, daddie; i love you more that words can express.

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baby falcons in new jersey.

book-starved in the middle east.

four new book excerpts for your enjoyment: thunder from the east, flatland, measure for measure, and metamorphosis.

also for your pleasure are this week's pencam shots.

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saw shakespeare in the park tonight. it was funny and well acted and a great way to spend an evening. if you live in new york city, i'd highly recommend it. the play, measure for measure, has one of my favorite shakespeare quotes in it: "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

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happie birthday to leia and jezebel!!!

saw reading it tonight and it was fabulous!

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saw atlantis last night. i can't remember a disney animated movie that wasn't a musical. it was quite fun, actually, and i really enjoyed it.

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if you live in new york city and are a fan of mcsweeney's you might be interested in attending reading it: an evening of literary comedy. if you do plant to attend, let me know as i plan to be there, too.

two new excerpts for your pleasure: last chance to see and origins of architectural pleasure.

and this week's pencam shots.

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W. Eugene Smith's The Walk to Paradise Garden

"That those on Smith's "walk" are children constitutes a different and equally fundamental appeal, for like many species we are programmed to care for our young. Is it significant too that the children are boy and girl, that someday they will be capable of producing further offspring? The children's movement away from the camera implies the generational notion: they leave us behind, moving forward not only through space but also through time. The boy strides ahead, the first of the pair to advance from the hiding place into the meadow, and he looks to the right, the first movement in what we expect to be a scanning of the prospect ahead for advantages and dangers. The photo is a famous one and is available as a poster; people pay money to possess this image." - p23 of Origins of Architectural Pleasure by Grant Hildebrand

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thanks to leia i'm hooked on downloading fonts again.

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always important to remember.

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it was tons of fun meeting you, john!

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live in new york city?

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speech is back!! yey!

many new excerpts: back when we were grownups, to see you again, for hearing people only, and the pragmatic programmer.

and two new quotes and a whole bunch of knowledge.

unfortunately it's not on their site but if you read scientific american, the june issue has a wonderful article about sign language and the human brain.

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