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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Here's a small gallery of 4 pictures of an artwork from MassMoCA that I saw on a recent trip there. The artist painted the floor and wall to make it look just as if there were a complex shadow falling on the wall. The pictures evoke it decently, ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Being an old-school kind of guy who remembers when the internets were made of tin cans and string, I still like my usenet binary newsgroups.
So I was a bit bugged when NYS Attorney General Andrew "pre-whore Spitzer" Cuomo made threats about shutting down the newsgroups by threatening to prosecute ISPs ...
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
How about that: The NYS Assembly passes legalizing gay marriage (One 'I do' for gay marriage) -- not "Civil Unions" or some other second-class shit, but real gay marriage. What with the Gov's support too (see Gov. Spitzer backs gay marriage for NY), it's almost enough to make ...
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Our little baby is growing up. Oz edited his first Wikipedia page today.
Unsurprisingly, it involved correcting a map-related page (what with him being the Road Whisperer, and involved with NYSDoT quality control).
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
Following up on my past defending of the scum of society from having their civil protections under the rule of law revoked because we really don't like what they've done (see the earlier posts More erosion of the rule of law and No civil liberty protection for perverts), the New ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
If you read this, you know that Oz is into maps and routes. He'd noticed a few mistakes in route markers, so we helped him send a note to the local paper's occasional column "Getting There", about roads and driving in the region. Today it's on the front ...
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Jeanine Pirro, Republican candidate for NY state attorney general (and long-lost sister of arch-villian The Joker) says that the most important public safety issue of our time is...
...civil confinement for keeping violent sexual predators behind bars after their prison sentences have ended. Not guns, terrorism, protection of the food ...
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Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
The president of my university, Kermit Hall, died suddenly this weekend in an apparent drowing incident (President of SUNY Albany Dies, Apparently Drowning; Mourners laud Hall's virtues).
He was the best college president I've been around, showing the sort of vision and leadership claimed for many and posessed by few.
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Saturday, March 4th, 2006
The Cinema Art Theater here in Troy has been a well-known glory hole for more than 20 years. It's a big old theatre in downtown Troy that runs porn all the time, has private booths -- you know. Everybody knows. They're quiet and clean, there's no ads ...
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Sunday, February 12th, 2006
Northeast Socked by Snowstorm; NYC Sets Record, but here in the Albany area, we get off with a couple of inches. It's uncanny how often the snow belt storms veer off before we get hit, and leave us with only glancing blows. Go 100 miles in a couple ...
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