Category Archives: communication

Crowds of People Asking

By xtina | Published: December 10, 2008

Sometimes I think it is a curse to be aware. Consciousness can be a burden. If I were less aware then I think I might cringe less than I do. My life has been full of cringe lately. I know that being different from your average Joe is full of gopher holes and such, but [...]

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Politico

By spider | Published: July 19, 2008

What have I been up to til now? Heretofore, my political activism has been sporadic. In college, I didn’t do much, if anything. I attended rallies (we were faced with a bunch of anti-immigrant state initiatives back then), and probably signed a few petitions. In 2000, I campaigned for Al Gore in the last month [...]

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Convening in Austin

By spider | Published: July 18, 2008

The Preamble For the 1.7 regular readers of this periodically forsaken blog, you may still have a vague recollection of an earlier era (may even have been when we still went by The Duologue!) when a significant portion of my blog entries (there were more then) mentioned national political issues. Lots of stuff about little [...]

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the little birdies twittering in the trees

By xtina | Published: June 9, 2008

Technology happens in this day and age. It moves forward relentlessly as hungry people engorged by the thought that ‘there is money in them thar tubes’ write ever more code, powering new and oblique technologies to bring people onto their web sites. Some of the applications try to help people like donorschoose.com while others are [...]

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Self Censorship in Modern Merka

By spider | Published: April 24, 2007

I was reading a (quite humorous) email from my uncle that went something like this: Whatever you two are smoking, please send me two tons as a sales starter package. I think that there is a lot more profit potential in whatever you are smoking than in converting ’58 Chevies into tri5s. I think that [...]

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Simplexity is the new Comity

By spider | Published: February 9, 2007

So, like, I was reading this article about how Ford will be renaming their big bland sedan, from Five Hundred to Taurus – a badge being resurrected after a) a ten-year trip to oblivion and b) recently ceasing production of the old model. Pretty dull stuff, not the typical OM fare, right? But then, burried [...]

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Generique*

By xtina | Published: November 10, 2006

Ah, lovely days off. Today has been one of achievement. Wade painted and painted and painted and all of the remaining complex woodwork is now a beautiful shade of ‘cottonball’. The inside of the house is dusted, mopped, and vacuumed. The gigantor lavendar bush next to the front door is trimmed and pruned into a [...]

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Sewing and sexing have some things in common: you take two things and make them one, also they are a lot of work.

By xtina | Published: October 27, 2006

I have been silent for a lil while now. Life has been keeping me very busy. I ma thinking about doing NaBloPoMo next month to see if I can get those blog-writing muscles in shape. However I am not sure that I’ll be able to join in the frenzy, tho it looks like a worthwhile [...]

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Used to be an athlete, now he is an aesthete

By spider | Published: September 28, 2006

aesthete \ES-theet\, noun: One having or affecting great sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature. Beijing, with its stolid, square buildings and wide, straight roads, feels like the plan of a first-year engineering student, while Shanghai’s decorative architecture and snaking, narrow roads feel like the plan of an aesthete. — “Sky’s the Limit in [...]

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diary of a nymphomaniac

By xtina | Published: October 1, 2002

I read your post about G.Shrub’s mouth with horror and distaste. I can’t believe that our elected officials hire spokesmen are offering these types of violent solutions. For years these same people funneled money in support of the same individual whose execution they now advocate. Saddam is known at CasaWeX as “the Arab Manuel Noriega”. [...]

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