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Weblogging

Taking the new weblog out for a spin

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m taking the new MT weblog out for a spin. It’s new location is http://weblog.burningbird.net, existing as a separate virtual host to isolate it from my other web sites. Be aware that this is a test spin, only. The weblog doesn’t have the backend work finished, which is going to take […]

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Places

Embarcadero

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The doctor is in. I’ve prescribed myself a daily walk along the Embarcadero, gradually extending the distance until I walk the Bridge to Bridge — Bay Bridge to Golden Gate Bridge and back. Over 12 miles. I figured I’ll make my goal by end of May. 2004. If you’ve never […]

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Just Shelley

Held Captive

We are a society that is progressively looking inward rather than outward. As we spend more and more time among concrete towers and experience more and more of the world through our computers, we’re relying less and less on our senses, on all our senses. We are quite strong visually or aurally, but even that […]

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Just Shelley

And the patient had chains

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. More adventures, but Golden Girl had to sit this one out. Today I went to San Francisco General Hospital for an abdominal CT scan. The scan was interesting, but the waiting room was more so. Once I turned in my paperwork at the X-Ray department, a nurse brought me into […]

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Just Shelley

Reflections on Still Water

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When I worked at Stanford last year, I used to take the commuter train to work. It was a ride of about an hour each way and I always looked forward to it. Head phones on, favorite music playing, I would lay my head back against the seat and spend […]