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this could be yours

Have you ever wanted a six foot long rolltop desk? or perhaps a 160lb anvil? My parents are trying to dispense with both in San Francisco (neither can be shipped unless you want to throw down a lot of extra ...

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Fun Things I Learned Today

Sorry dad, this one is definitely for the what the hell is she talking about? files. Maybe later I'll write about sleeping under the cowitch tree and Frank Quan's coffee and waffles and the Grace Quan, and that will be interesting. But for now, I give you ... Ubuntu ...

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Why would anyone give it away?

A thing that makes my head explode a little bit, is when people talk about Free and Open Source Software and they talk about volunteer software developers as though everyone working on FOSS development is a volunteer with no self interest and nothing to gain from their work. The truth ...

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the post is rambling

(insert here: photo of Justin doing the "lets make it out of shipping containers" dance. I apologize for my failure to record the dance.) It is a little known fact that beginning in about seventh grade, I fell asleep constructing images of dwellings in my mind. Who knows what first got ...

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add to the wishlist …

I like Thunderbird. I do. But I'm slowly growing addicted to tagging and I find myself thirsting more and more for tagging. And folders. But not Gmail. Like gmail, but local. I want tagging for Thunderbird. I'm not alone, but it doesn't sound like anyone's worked it out. The ...

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Handy, This Blog Thing

This blog thing is handy, I tell you. Seems like I just put up a list of things on my mind and then total strangers (and some old friends, but it is the total strangers that get me) they tell me the answer. So this week, on my mind, besides ...

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So I noticed last night …

This here, it is some funny shit. Married to the Sea was almost my favorite website until I read this part which is some decidedly bogus yoga[1]. Let me get this straight: you make derivative collage art out of public domain graphics, but no one else is ...

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nobody’s that busy

I started this blog thinking I'd use it to gather my thoughts about food, nutrition, open space, urban health. You may have noticed that I write about none of those things. I think about them, a lot. I stumble upon articles that state the obvious (eat a variety of fresh ...

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Question of the Week

I want to advise my readers (all four of you, three with my father out of town), that I, Amanda, am capable of heretofore unheard of digressions. For instance: ever since we announced our engagement, people have been asking us what we want for an engagement gift. We don't know. ...

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