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People Places

What the folks say in the midwest

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am not a very outgoing person. It’s uncommonly difficult for me to just start talking to strangers, not because I don’t like people, but because there’s a part of me worries that I’m encroaching—intruding into people’s personal space. During the trip last week, I deliberately went out of my […]

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Specs

Well FOAF you too!

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.  It would seem that there are folks out and about playing with RDF, in particular FOAF,a Friend-of-a-Friend RDF vocabulary. Mark Pilgrim’s playing with it. So is Sam Ruby and Phil. Phil had some problems with the original FOAF file generated for him by the FOAF-o-matic in that it includes blank nodes — equivalent to a subject-predicate-object (noun-property-value) that doesn’t have […]

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Writing

“The Sportswriters” by Richard Ford: A review

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Though in the end, this is all I ask for: to participate briefly in the lives of others at a low level; to speak in a plain, truth-telling voice; to not take myself too seriously; and then to have done with it. Since after all, it is one thing to […]

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Just Shelley

All things squid

I share with PZ Myers’ a love of all things cephalopod, though I tend to favor anything related to squids, giant preferably. Ethan sent me a link to SquidSoap, which I’ll have to try out, of course. My thanks for Ethan for thinking of me. Just a hint to others: If anyone comes across anything related to cephalopods in […]

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Weblogging

Switching comments

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m updating my PHP system, which is breaking dotcomments. So, I’m in the process of converting comments over to Movable Type. Until I’m finished, you won’t be able to post new comments. Update: The comments system has now been converted over to Movable Type comments. You’ll have to check out the […]