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November 19, 2006
This One's for Bo
California is awesome. One day last week I started to miss Massachusetts -- I was feeling nostalgic for the historic creepiness of the Northeast and the comfortable snowiness of our trip to Salem for Halloween last year. I went so far as to believe for a few hours that walking to and from the train to work in the snow every day all winter had been fun, rather than incredibly frustrating.
Later that evening, I went for a run outside, and only as I was turning back onto our block did I realize that this was the first thing that started to upset me about winter every year -- by now, at Bard, or in Waltham, I would probably not have felt much like running outside after dark. It's easy to take the weather here for granted, and to think you miss something less monotonous, but the one tone is fucking sweet.
For instance, yesterday -- that's November 18, if you're keeping score at home -- I spent the morning at an outdoor farmer's market, the afternoon playing basketball outside, and the evening on the beach grilling salmon and roasting marshmallows for smores with a bunch of neuroscientists and my machine learning homies. It was outstanding, and I'd be hard pressed to trade it even for a couple of interesting coffeehouses and a good used book store.
Posted by todd at November 19, 2006 10:35 PM
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Posted by: Bo at November 20, 2006 8:56 AM
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Posted by: Bo at November 20, 2006 8:56 AM
Man, that's a really terrific middle finger. D'you find that on-line, or make it yourself?
Posted by: todd. at November 20, 2006 9:08 AM
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Posted by: Keith at November 20, 2006 1:06 PM
Why is it that this comment box always foils my plans?
Posted by: Keith at November 20, 2006 1:07 PM
If you were 1337 as Bo, you'd know to use the 'pre' tag, as follows:
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Posted by: todd. at November 20, 2006 2:19 PM
I guess you still have to deal with the fact that MT is going to add <br> tags. Oh well.
Posted by: todd. at November 20, 2006 2:20 PM
what is that thing anyway?
Posted by: jurvis at November 20, 2006 2:57 PM
Turns out the problem isn't extra newlines, it's more like that I'm using a weird line height.
Anyway, it says "noob". It looks pretty good in a fixed width font. Try peeking at the source for the page.
Posted by: todd. at November 20, 2006 3:11 PM
i knew it was a joke... you are still foolish though
there are no turkeys in england (sung to the tune of , something, ...oh i can't remember. sung to a tune. you decide.)
Posted by: allison at November 20, 2006 4:06 PM
Really? Wikipedia disagrees. Also, Dickens. But more importantly wikipedia.
Posted by: todd. at November 20, 2006 4:29 PM
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