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Sat, July 28

An Optimist!—12:28 AM

Came across this in a plentyoffish.com profile. I love the frank, simple wording.

i was in jrotc for four year and plan on joining the army or the marines after bush leaves.

Excellent idea. By then, they'll need you!

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Wed, July 25

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Juiced-up sluggernaut Barry Bonds is poised to limp across the line of baseball's career home run record. A perfect time for another baseball strike! (I'd even accept a meteor strike.) (Read more.)

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Fri, July 20

My iPod Loves Me—9:56 AM

I don't have time to Google up a link for you right now, but there was an interesting article a couple of years ago about the "shuffle" algorithm used on the iPod, how random it actually is, etc. (It can't be totally random, of course, because people don't want to hear the same song eleven times in a row – which is technically possible in a truly random system.)

Anyway, the article talked about how people think their iPod "knows" them, because it seems to serve up their favorite songs more often. The article marked this up to synchronicity: folks notice their favorite songs more often, so they remember the hits and forget the misses.

In the middle of a marathon housecleaning session last night (technically 1:00 this morning), I had hit yet another demoralizing moment when nothing seemed to be working out and no progress was being made. I said something to the effect of, "Well, I just want to die." (Except with 7 or 8 "fuck"s in there.) Two seconds later, li'l iPod served up "Le Festin" from the Ratatouille soundtrack and totally buoyed my spirits.

I still don't believe my iPod has a soul, but it definitely gave me the energy to scrub floors for another hour!

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Tue, July 10

It Has a Robot

A two-and-a-half hour action movie is fine with me, even if it doesn't make any sense and nothing really happens. But there has to be a lot of cool action. (Read more.)

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Sun, July 1

It Still Might Suck—6:53 PM

On the website for The Simpsons Movie, you can use a cool interactive tool to build a Simpsons character of your own. I made one of me (because, who else matters?) but you can customize it in all kinds of ways and make any character you want.

It's pretty fun to play with, which is more than can be said for 99% of movie websites out there.

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