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Why is it hard to find a digital watch that keeps more than two times? Circuits are super cheap. The most I ever saw was a watch that kept two, a main display and another for world times. All I want is one that keeps local solar, local consensus, UTC, and maybe local sidereal if we're adding gratuitous features.

This week, the texture of asphalt...
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Yeah for serendipity. Yesterday I was out running some errands. I wanted to get my tax returns into the mail and return some library books. The kind of book I had been in the mood for had changed before I even started half of the last batch, so they went unread. Posting on the SF group had given me a hankering for some, so I...
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So today I walked through this tunnel at work that connects these two buildings. Closed off behind a sort of fence on one side of the tunnel are the steam pipes for the heat. Since this is an old building, these pipes haven't been cleaned in forever. The dust was probably 3-5mm thick in the thick patches. As I walked beside these pipes, I noticed...
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So I stopped into one of the chain bookstores on my way home from work to browse for interesting magazines. I strike out there, but fate shines on me. On the new release table, I find Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class has hit paperback. This reminds me I've been meaning to ask Amazon what they think I should read given that I...
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Yesterday, I got the second of now three revised W-2s. I was surprised to see this one, as of the two places I worked last year, they have been more on the ball.

Oh well, it means more $ for me. Now if only the stupid first employer can get me their second correction. Their error on their first correction they blamed on a computer,...
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Note to self:
I think that I will never see
a poem as pretty as the proof of the irrationality of the square root of two.

Before joining up, I'd been lurking the boards and journals, when I saw Morgan's post about stark terror and assholes. A few months ago, when I was newer to the new place I'm living, I got on the wrong bus, and missed the last stop. I had realized it was the right bus but going in the wrong direction, and figured it was going to...
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