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don't ever forget what happened last week. let it spur you into learning about the history of our nation, about the lives lost in every war we've ever fought, in every terrorist attack we've ever sufferred. there's probably a half a million people grieving in this nation right now, thousands of families with empty seats at the dinner table. please don't ever forget that.

i have broken the "no-lyrics" rule again... this time it was the band that i figured would make me break my rule in the first place, jawbreaker, and the album of course, 24-hour revenge therapy.

is bert evil? who knew!

forget jenna whatshername... marry Terri Garr, circa- Young Frankenstein... my goodness...

CPR: 87% PPR: 99% spinning: HUSKER DU (greatest band in history)

you get up..get to work..take a friend to drop off his car cause it's going to spontaneously combust and then sit back and have a cup of coffee. you too can be a computer software engineer!

CPR: 0%
PPR: 15%
spinning:my head from all this excitement.

savor the flavor crystals....

CPR: 60%
PPR: 40%

spinning: The Ocean Blue

here is a wildly interesting and though-provoking article:
does the US really know its enemies?

CPR: 0% (i'm eating lunch) PPR: 100% spinning: Jim Fletcher Plays Cafe Flamenco (spanish flamenco music, reminiscent of the music from the princess bride)

for those keeping score at home, i am still sticking to my "no music with words" thing, except that i have broken it in the van... why? one band, i say. there was one band whose songs i could not go much longer without listening to. jawbreaker? almost.... but the winner was husker du. best songs in the world, man, without a doubt.

CPR: 64% PPR: 89% spinning: nothing yet

no, no college keggers and venereal diseases...just lots of llamas

CPR: 0%
PPR: 40%

spinning:Sunny Day Real Estate

oh my, the HOLY TRAGIC TYPOGRAPHICALLY ERRORS are the worst kind in the world.

AFS means the world to me. It is what gets me out of bed in the morning. My mommy says that the days before AFS people actually had to save things to their hard-drives! Can you imagine?! Whole companies saving files to their workstations?!

That's why AFS is really really important to me. My daddy says foolish people think AFS is a waste of time. Like if the network goes down, and people can't access files or remote systems. Well it just means you get to play more Quake or Dungeons and Dragons. I have a cleric. His name is Smed Mo. He's got a blue cloak.

By Reginald Oskslammer

As a side note...Reginald Oskslammer was stoned later that day.

intense news: israeli & palestinian ceasefire. arafat ordered his military commanders not to fire even if under fire from israeli forces.

i've learned one new java & one new jsp trick this morning. and i am becoming more and more convinced that the most perfect album ever made is young team.

CPR: 83% PPR: 94% spinning- mogwai: young team

that's why you should use opera. it's nice, it's small, and it's new and improved and will run on every site you go to now. on top of that, you have ONE browser window on your taskbar. it's a nice feature instead of having a multitude of IE or Netscape windows open.

CPR: 70%
PPR: 80% (this is to shut up a certain individual that believes that they are the only one working here. they are a bonfied a$$ munch)

spinning: FVGAZI

CPR: 0% why? because i have to reboot. why? because at least once a day, my netscape totally dies on my machine, i'm certain it is due to the proliferation of piss-poor javascript floating around on amatuer websites. why don't i use internet explorer (IE), you ask? well, because after i go to about one or two websites, corporate even, it breaks, and won't popup new windows. why do i need a browser running at all times? hmm.... perhaps because i write code that runs websites, hmm, perhaps? ....

PPR: 93%

hmm, what with our stock market falling and all...i was just wondering...what is the criteria for becoming a vagrant these days....

man, i love that crap! "american's just don't get it [starting a job and getting 5 weeks of vacation time right off the bat]"

can i possibly find a way to express JUST HOW MUCH i get the concept of MAD VACATION TIME?!?!?? BRING THAT @#$! ON! (as rage against the machine would say)

As a new poster to this illustrious blog, I'd like to present some information slightly off topic, but still related to lunch being longer.

From an article from the Society for Human Resource Management:
"The United States is the only industrialized nation without a government mandate on vacation time. According to Hewitt Associates, a global management consulting firm in Lincolnshire, Ill., 81 percent of U.S. employers offer two weeks of vacation after one year of service. Compare that with four to five weeks in Europe. Americans often view generous European vacation polices as enviable but impractical. "

Another related article can be found at: http://airtravel.about.com/library/weekly/aa053101.htm?iam=cangetit_SKD&terms=vacations.

Perhaps American companies can lengthen the lunch hour to make up for their flagrant disregard for adequate vacation time...

when one has a Vector object in Java, be advised to never use the Vector.add method. it's bad. if someone asks if you want to use .add...just say ".add is bad"

paul, i apologize sincerly if my musings last night (on nuclear war, blast radii, fallout zones, and bomb shelters) have had any hand in your angst... my father and i have a tendency to view our own certain deaths with a very morbid humor, and that sort of translates to viewing world devastation with the same morbid humor. however, i think that no one but us appreciates our black comedy.

pray for peace.

a new day arisen. trying to start a much healthier way of eating, such as no more oreo and pretzel dinners. those are bad. started off with a right nice bowl of fruity pebbles cereal. a breakfast of fourth grade champions as it were to put it in the parlance of our times. my daily essentials vitamin that tastes like sawdust used for horse bedding. ahh, what a mundane life.

it is an angst ridden day for me.

CPR - 55%
PPR - 40% and falling

spinning: mogwai (come on die young)

the irony of that title right now is just too much to comment on....

just wanna say, i was not there to see it happen, but kevin smith was posting on the viewaskew message board last night, if you're a fan you should check it out... view askew

CPR - 94% PPR - 98%
spinning - miles davis: bags' groove

sometimes when i wake up and have the opportunity to get into work by 7am, i can't, because every single dish i own is dirty and the morning is a great time to wash dishes. last week, due to unforeseen laziness on my part, i left all my dishes and pots and pans sit dirty in the sink for five or six days; when jayna finally washed them on friday (as a favor), she said there were at least five different species of foul smelling mold present.

also, my sink is leaking, both directly underneath the sink, and in another cupboard that the drain pipe runs through.

CPR - 6%
PPR - 95%