Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
OK, you've heard that the California Supremes have ruled that you can't ban gay marriage under the CA state constitution, making California the second state to have real, no second-tier "civil union" marriage for gay people. And the Governator, no big supporter of gay marriage, has said he won't ...
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
Our neighborhood public school here in Troy NY where Oz now goes to kindergarten has an assembly every Monday and Friday morning to which parents are invited. Along with maybe a couple of dozen other parents, I sometimes go. Songs, awards, announcements -- you know.
But they also do ...
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Sunday, August 21st, 2005
I married a couple today. A couple of what, you say?
As some of you may know, I occasionally officiate at weddings. I'm empowered to do so as an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church (which asks only that I believe in doing that which is right -- ...
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2004
The Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 is pretty cool; run by a 'Publican, I think, but it seems he's trying to be realistic and fair, as much as that's possible for a 'Publican. Current score: Kerry 291, Bush 237.
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Monday, July 26th, 2004
Miss Massachusetts is from MIT (Course 5, class of 2004). How can that be? Isn't that one of the biblical signs of the apocalypse? I am not kidding: Here it is, right from the 'Tute itself: Beauty and the Geek: When Stereotypes Collide
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Monday, July 26th, 2004
Like anybody cares: The home page is now updated, and I've also restructured my email so that (a) it all comes through the ron at ozrock dot net address, and (b) it runs through SpamAssassin on the server. Got sick of my arriving mail being 90% spam, so ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2004
Gave the blog a facelift, and also converted all the "Random Links" from blog-style to Furl. Bear with me. The home page will be updated soon as well. You can also post comments here for now. I don't expect anyone will use that; if nobody does, I'll ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
Always fun when philosophical tag-lines show up in the mainstream press. Check out the upcoming Newsweek cover where we get the Cartesian I pod, therefore I am.
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2004
Michael Hanscom's eclecticism (a fun blog) had a nice triple of slang coming from the soldiers in Iraq that seemed ripe for more widespread use:Salmon Day: You spend all day swimming upstream just to get fucked and die.Adminisphere: The 'powers that be' above your immediate superior.Blamestorming Session: The process of ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2004
Finally went wireless on the laptop. I'm sitting in Panera Bread, using their nice free Wi-Fi access. Very cool. Very the-future-is-now.
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