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A Trash-80 Christmas

The Edmund Fitzgerald

Adolph neighborhood, Hermantown

Three Ethical Frameworks

Avoiding COVID in 2025

The CrowdStrike Disaster

The little sort

Filtering isn't moderation

Back to the Hundred Acre Woods

Minnesota's new flag

Remembering Jack Van Impe

Seeking Ali Bris

Nineteen Eighty Pooh

Duluth, Minnesota

(re)Introduction

Pooh: Thirst for Power

Business trip to Hell

Social networks

Worst summer ever

On Git branch naming

Plague journal: The Machine Starts

Presidential choices

Life comes at you fast

I like big buttes and I cannot lie

Reflections on Brexit

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

The Youtube Rabbit Hole Game

How to mend life?

WWW: What Went Wrong?

'Kingdom Come' by J.G. Ballard

Video games: It's all about the story

Book review: Fire and Fury

Economics of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

AI-generated porn movie titles

Shatner's Toupee

How to spot an invert

A parakeet's tale

Home video reflections

Hans Reiser and Donald Trump

iPhone and iPad reconsidered

Your job is next

Trump inaugural poem

Goodbye to coal country

Your Stars for 2017

It’s the small details that stick with you

Off my trolley problem

Kant, bees, and the brain’s GPS

In which I finally become an American

Personal Brexit

How the other side thinks

Brexit explained

Homeland Security and less pleasant things

Microsoft’s downfall

A tiny horror story

Health kick 2 year update

Less than meets the eye

Unicode proposal

The life changing magic of tidying up your download files

Catastrophic flood insurance

A warm and sunny Christmas to all

I saw three ships

Free market consumer driven healthcare

Deontological ethics and the gun problem

Channeling Mr Gimlet

Stereo is over (if you want it)

“You’re fired!”

Equine surprise

Cholesterol is harmless

Brain dump: American football

Deconstructing “race science”

“Depression Quest”

Colorado part 2: Boulder and mountains

Colorado part 1: Denver and art

Sigue Sigue Sputnik

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

The terrible cost of free doughnuts

San Francisco’s real problem

2013: Year in review.

The Sony Ericsson P900

Perverse incentives

An embarrassment of musical riches

Semiotics of video game genres

MP3, AAC, ABCDE

How to start an open source project

Uncommon common knowledge

Well-kept gardens also die from activism

Random encounter

The music of Baby Bird

Root of all evil

LA Noire review

Adam Curtis: All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace

All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace

Movie review: Insomnia, Insomnia

Video game fight

Thoughts on political discussion

If you want to learn about history, watch Monty Python

Stopping by a Web Site on a Sunny Afternoon

The NCP address crunch

The way the world works

The gangster chic of remix culture

Christmas 2010: Flying to the UK

Favorite cartoon characters

Movie review: “Four Lions”

Movie review: “The Room”

Home improvements part 2: Guttering

Home improvements part 1: New deck

New study on bullying

The 70s again, through the lens of TV theme tunes

Britain in the 1970s

The man who dies every day

Metroid Prime Trilogy

Horses for courses

“Of Parrots And People” by Mira Tweti

Myself, and other myths

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Google Wishes You Merry Christmas

My trip to the UK

Camcorder nostalgia

Things I’ve learned from TV

The Year of the Sex Olympics

The Taliban of Swat

Sheikh, rattle, roll over

2 wheels good, 3 wheels better

The financial meltdown

The inevitable happened

Letter to the FTC 539814-00408

My trip to cotton wool world

How Mae and Mac jacked up the US debt by 50% overnight

Failed CON save vs addiction?

Bare metal cookery

In defense of GTA

Is there any way to kill the end-of-level boss?

How to stop procrastinating

Larry Craig and restroom etiquette

Minnesota thoughts

Subprime meltdown

Cleaning up bash customizations

World of LOLcraft

Carbon offsetting

Flying back to England

iPhone remorse?

Getting a Second Life

The eyes have it

The Domain Name System (DNS)

Liquid engineering

Gums, Germs and Steel

Not going deaf for a living

A modern bestiary

LCD DHL IBM JFS KDE USB HID

Christmas preparations

Design simplicity

Postscript: Hamburger Helper

Wii in your living room

Nintendo DS Lite thoughts

In memoriam: Tower Records

Don’t mention the war

More Yahoo answers

Squirrel discoveries

GPL v3: The missing piece

Public displays of affection

How to look German

Wallowing in the past

World famous in Germany

The asshole bar is raised again

Fruitful discussion

The software that wasn’t

Two scientific studies

The new photography

Trans Canada Highway

The television will be revolutionized

Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me?

The great knock-off font swindle

What is your HOP level?

One billion heartbeats

À la carte TV myths

Book review: _Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy_

Lost In New York

Compensation culture

Summer camp with a difference

Give them credit

In widescreen where available

Spot the crook?

Persistence vs chance

Squirrel roll call

Texas wildlife update

Four fried chickens and a Coke

Waiter, there’s sex in my violence!

Texas gardening

From the desk of…

At least the squirrels are cute

Getting settled

Mailboxes, etc.

So let me tell you about this house thing…

A bijou language-ette

Social Security Numbers

Separation anxiety

The art of toast

Not missing the snow either, thank you

Happy birthday to me

Now it can be told

Now for the tricky bit (revised)

Ten cars which sound like Robert Ludlum novels

It’s really happening

Dream with a moose

Relocation situation

The long nightmare is over

Learning to drive and other troubles

Battlefield Earth

Vanishing web providers I have known

Austin thoughts

Microsoft dream

Found in Davis Square

Home, but only just

Vegas Day 4: Xmas Eve

Vegas Day 3: The Hoover Dam

Vegas Day 2: The Strip

Vegas Day 1: Getting there

Las Vegas: Introduction

Vegas Day 6: Returning home

Vegas Day 5: Christmas

Comcast cable TV lineup for Cambridge Massachusetts

Jury duty dream

I am so freakin’ organized

J2EE in a nutshell

Ratchet and Crack

Marriage question

Down in the park

Woody Allen is no longer funny

Call of Cthulhu (d20) from Wizards of the Coast

Sinful chocolate

Jeff the Pacifist Bomb

Short, shameful confession

Where the Bush family got their money

Your tax dollars at work

Screensavers on Mac OS X

Last night’s dream

A Touch of Evil

Mostly for Laura

I have your porn, L MACKAY!

Planet Of The Apes

Insert flower in hair

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Damn you, Amazon!

Dreams in a blender

I look like I know stuff

Failures of the free market: food

Wrap your mind around this

Minority Report

The Dream World

Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building

This fucking sucks

Revenge of the kidney stone

It’s a wonder I bother renting movies

When Kidney Stones Attack

Lies my parents told me

Linux and Mac hassles, and Disk Warrior

Last night’s dream

Gordon Matthews

Mars mission dream

Friends Reunited

Instant ditz, just add stress

Mickey Mouse operation

For this, I paid $125

Kitchen repaired

Greetings from Minnesota

I will not obsess about things.

Nervous traveler

My first ever Usenet posting

Evaporated milk

RAMalamadingdong

I don’t need this

Last night’s dream

Flushed with success?

What is it with the T this month?

Kitchen apocalypse

Locust notes and weddings

Latest scientific advance

Northern Minnesota vacation

On being married

“Oh no, not again.”

Got a digital camera

“Hello, Percy.”

New York Retrospective

Only apparently real

Reynols “Blank Tapes”

Mephitis mephitis

If the phone company ran a restaurant

Relative Sizes of Inexact Quantitative Measures

Alien encounter

The Girlfriend-In-Minnesota Blues

A walk in the park

Mp’sj’s Ark

The Recursive Chicken

Product announcement

Instant poetry…

Recycled poetry

Mathew’s Believe It Or Don’t

A friendly warning