Monthly Archives: August 2005

Mac lust gone awry

By | Published: August 16, 2005
We all knew mac people are crazy. But crazy enough to stampede in stadium buttrock concert fashion for 4 year old ibooks at $50 a pop? I wonder if we will be seeing Ibook “Stampede Edition” laptops on ebay now. Google News Link My favorite quote: “I took my chair here and I threw it [...]
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Double Tall… what?

By Ken | Published: August 15, 2005
Double Tall Iced Mocha, lite on the chocolate, thanks, no need for a lid. This is how I order my coffee. For someone whose friends refer to as care free and easy going, coffee is one thing I am anal about. At least in Seattle. Put me in the midwest or the south and I [...]
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UtiliRant

By | Published: August 15, 2005
“That reminds me: I haven’t even touched on you men in kilts…” I thoroughly enjoyed this rant on everything is dumb. I don’t know how many times I have had the Utilikilts conversation, but I have never been able to sum it up like he did. It is very rare that I read an entire [...]
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Diary

By | Published: August 15, 2005
A transcription of a diary found on the streets of SF. A young girl in SF hooked on drugs talking to who would listen, her diary. I found it very hard to stop reading, despite how creepy it felt to be peaking into someone’s whacked out version of reality.
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Deluxe Librarian Action Figure

By | Published: August 15, 2005
Archie Mcphee has released an update to their famous Librarian Action Figure modeled after Nancy Pearl. The Deluxe Librarian Action Figure, now with a reference desk, computer, book cart and tiny replica of More Book Lust . I am sure these will be floating around the office any day now.
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Ghost Cycle Retaliation?

By | Published: August 5, 2005
So I was getting off the bus in Fremont around 1:45 today. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted a female with a red milwakee power screwdriver doing something to the ghost cycle at the main intersection in Fremont. She was attaching a sign on top of the “A cyclist was struck here” [...]
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