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Just Testing
Posted Sep 18, 1999
I just figured out how to put in the code for the Users Online window (Yeah, yeah, what a boob, right? No, I'm cautious!) and now I just want to see if I can make a fish. 
Hey, I made a fish! Now I will rest, for the night and the morning and the night make for a really long day.
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Best of albums
Posted Sep 5, 1999
Best of...music collections rarely have what is the best a band has recorded; they're usually just the most popular songs by a band, that is, what the label has sold as the most popular, i.e., what we're supposed to like, not what is really good. What's really good usually has a "swear word" or a long jam and the song becomes seven minutes long...too long for a greatest hits album. Of course, if the band was never that great, its best of tends to be eponymous.
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Power Outages
Posted Sep 4, 1999
Power outages are the only time the house is truly quiet.
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Vending Machines
Posted Aug 30, 1999
As soon as my school, which is now my place of work, built two new additions to support the students of the exploding computer education industry, vending machines have replaced people and cafeteria hours. The result is a kind of desperate longing in me, especially in the late afternoon, for real food that doesn't come in plastic packets and require a large handful of quarters to procure. Vending machines used to be only around for cigarettes, condoms, tampons, soda pop, coffee, and the occasional sandwich, and usually only in hospitals, police stations and Denny's. Now they seem to be growing into a vast industry, employing people to install, load and unload them, and marketing more and more junk food to sedentary techno drones.
Apparently, from what I've been told, ubiquitous vending machines have been a Japanese cultural characteristic for many years. As a result, I wonder if the growing number and variety of machines in America has a cross-cultural origin as well. I'm not implying I believe in a Japanese conspiracy, or anything malevolent at all, really, but if I pop downstairs for a snack one day and find a machine trying to sell me gigantic beetles, I might change my mind.
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Bank Holiday--30th Aug
Posted Aug 30, 1999
It's reassuring to know that even the natives don't know why it's called a "Bank Holiday." It also goes to show that he who controls the purse strings probably didn't invent ATMs, but very likely did come up with ATM fees. It's almost like dating, looking for an ATM: there we are, out in the world, searching for total compatibility in order to get whatever we most desire. And if we don't find total compatibility, we get robbed, hurt, or otherwise screwed.
In case you're thinking I just broke up with someone, or recently had a bad experience with ATM fees, I haven't; it simply seemed an apt analogy on the topic.
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