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• If Santorum doesn't get caught with a gay prostitute there is no god.
• "You're free to take your business elsewhere" —
That's the idiot fallacy of conservatism and free-market ideology. "You don't like it? Go somewhere else" — even though, frequently, there is nowhere else to go, no place that is truly someplace else.
• Ryan's pub in Kilkenny Ireland was closed for decades... — 19 January 2012
• Human employment figures to decline — 27 December 2011
• The anachronometer, a time-travel immigration control device...
• When I got back to Ireland in 2005 I went on the dole and remained unemployed or underemployed for almost all of the next six years.
• Could not remember whether my flight had come in safely, so I knew that I must be falling asleep, and dreaming. — From a notebook, early 2001 Seville, Spain
• Working on the page "why where," about my reasons for going places, I discovered an old page called simply "timewise," one of several attempts to organize files chronologically. It's a bit rough and only extends to 2005, but it might become useful.... — 25 Otober 2011
• I can see the night sky, now, here in Central Oregon. I'm a thousand meters/metres above sea-level and the air is dry. And I have to tell you: there are only two constellations. There's Orion and there's the Big Dipper. The rest are shit. The North Star is an interesting phenomenon -- and *all* of it is beautiful.... — 25 October 2011
• The Bible reminds me of the Rock of Cashel in Ireland -- historically
significant and therefore worth seeing, but cobbled together over centuries
in such a way that it has no esthetic narrative. — 24 October 2011
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I wish I believed in Satan because then I'd imagine how he'd greet assholes
who make writing twice as difficult on a machine that is 1,000,000 times as
fast. — 19 October 2011
• Central Oregon drivers go weak in the knees when they see a pedestrian. — 17 October 2011
• Dear New York Times, can't you support your online version by the sale of advertising?
• I refuse to learn any more of your crappy programs -- your media players, your word processors -- until you can standardize them to within a few degrees of consistency over several years. — 4 October 2011
• Work has no intrinsic value. — 29 September 2011
• In the days after "9/11," the world stood in empathy with the United States and in mourning for the people who had died that day. Within less than one year the George W. Bush admnistration had squandered that good will. In the proceeding decade they killed a million people for money and in the name of patriotism, with support of from the religious faithful. That's what I remember. — 12 September 2011
• As these computers become less adept at simple tasks, one is compelled to wonder... — dammit. Shit. Ah, fer fuck's sake...
I forgot what I was going to say.
• I wonder if there's any way now to stop the United States from devolving
into absolutist, murderous Christian rule. — 10 September 2011
• The ([square root of phi] divided by [phi squared]) multiplied by ([the square root of phi] multiplied by [phi squared]) equals phi. — 24 April 2011
• I wanted to complain to the Irish communications regulator — 21 April 2011
• Did a bit of work on the page about Imitation goods and services in Ireland.... — 11 April 2011
• Doesn't it seem like the U.S. Republican party has long been suspiciously willing to shut down the government in obeisance to their corporate and religious masters? Suspiciously, that is, if you believe their bullshit about patriotism. — 8 April 2011
• The magnetic poles are always shifting, and there's some evidence that the Earth is due for a total reversal, which is a normal (but aperiodic) phenomenon, as legible in the record of the north-south magnetic orientation of iron particles in lava that emanates from mid-oceanic rifts at a roughly-steady rate. The polarity flip is itself non-catastrophic, but will of course have unpredictable effects upon creatures that rely upon magnetic phenomena for navigation etcetera.
— 8 April 2011
• Bon anée, Paris, 2004...
... Working on some pages that I wrote about a road-trip that I made with a girlfriend, from Nijmegen NL to Paris France.... — 7 April 2011
• The longer that a bilingual speaker observes an Anglophone listening to another language, the greater becomes the probability that he or she will ask "do you understand this" in English. — 19 March 2011
• The mystery of the dissapearing stone art... — 8 March 2011
• Some machines have to learn how to use the tools that we've made for them. — 5 March 2011
• Somebody told me the other day that there used to be three certainties in Irish culture — GAA (the quasi-political half-religious Gaelic Athletic Association,) and Fianna Fáil, the until-this-week de facto government of Ireland. He said "now two of those are gone."
— 3 March 2011, Kilkenny
• Working on a page about the Elysian in Cork city, the so-called "idle tower." — 27 February 2011
• Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker compared his union-busting to Ronald Reagan's defeat of the air-traffic controllers. The comparison of global revolutions to the beginning of unrest in the American populace is not necessarily maudlin, is not trivial. — 25 February 2011
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• The housing boom of the Celtic Tiger...
• Made page "I caused a minor traffic accident — allegedly." — 26 November 2011
• Improved page "A plan for ending forced labor in the developed world" ...
• Working on the page "the why where files," about my 11 years in the European Union. — 14 November 2011
• Improved page "Teoria," on the theory of writing and (not)-organizing a web of documents. — 14 November 2011
• Improved page "Mirrors in space"... — 8 November 2011
• Made page "Kilkenny for most of a decade," an outline sketch of my time living in southeastern Ireland.
• Made page "anuncio," about a flyer I made to advertise English-language tutorials when I was living in Seville in 2001. — 2 November 2011
• Blue moon Kilkenny — from the archive, November 2001
• I believe — diversas creencias... — 18 October 2011
• Myths aside, it still matters whether or not Jesus existed. — 14 September 2011
• Loud Irish womens' shoes...
• Capitalism writes in small print....
• Improved page about construction law within perimeters of historic Dutch military installations — 20 March 2011
• Made page "dream blurbs." — 18 March 2011
• Improved page "Blurbs." — 15 March 2011
• Improved page "Irish-English terms and phrases." — 15 March 2011
• Improved page "Maybe Jesus didn't exist." — 12 March 2011
• Americans who believe that "if you don't vote you have no right to complain" are effectively implying that the protections of the First Amendment to the Constitution are provisional upon a specific civic duty. — 11 March 2011
• Discovered the old page "The Great Necessity and Impossibility of Infinite Space." — 10 March 2011
• Improved page "Thanks a million" (r.e. Irish English.) — 9 March 2011
• Improved page "Sorry" vs. "excuse me" in Irish vs. American English.... — 9 March 2011
• Improved the page "heresies." — 9 March 2011
• Did a bit more work on the theme of the challenges to the standard hypothesis of the peopling of the Americas. — 6 March 2011
• Modified page "maintenance fee," about extortional Irish retail banks — 27 February 2011
• Made page "Corkonian terms" (about lexicon from Cork, Ireland) — 21 February 2011
• Gaelic Irish language endangered.... — 20 February 2011
• Imitation goods and services in Ireland — 20 February 2011
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