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• I just ended up in the office with no idea what I was doing there. Now I fear senility. #
• I would very much like to sleep forever. #

Supposed Rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag 15 friends, etc, etc.

1. The Horse and His Boy (C.S. Lewis)
2. Velvet Elvis (Rob Bell)
3. Surprised By Hope (N.T. Wright)
4. Women, Slaves and Homosexuals (William J. Webb)
5. Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erikson)
6. The Darkness the Comes Before (R. Scott Bakker)
7. A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
8. The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)
9. Salt (Adam Roberts)
10. Blindsight (Peter Watts)
11. Dune (Frank Herbert)
12. Endless Love (Scott Spencer)
13. Collected Poems (Paul Auster)
14. New Collected Poems (Mark Strand)
15. Swiss Family Robinson (Johann David Wyss)

HT to Chris Hubbs on this one. I tag no-one.

The fullness of the universe,
the emptiness of my body;

I am where else is not.
I am the absence of it.

The warmth of this world,
the coolness at my core;

I move to release this
place to anything.

• http://drop.io/54sed8b #
• Everything is difficult. Time to get over that, people. #
• My boss doesn't read any of the emails I send him. It's like communicating with a brick wall built out of bullshit bricks. #
• Not entirely enamoured of work this morning. More wanting to take it out back behind the barn and put it out of its misery. #
• I don't understand why I'm having so many problems with the #tb3b3 indexing. No-one else seems to. #
• More coffee! #
• There's nothing worse than having to toast your browser profile. I hate losing stuff like that. #
• Which is a good question; if I'm accessing the cloud, why can't I mirror my profile data in the cloud somewhere? #
• Alright, so my page validates HTML 4 Trans. Which is okay. I don't have time for CSS bullshit right now. #
• Now my page validates XHTML 1.1 Strict. Which is cool. Because that's hard. And it looks the same. 10% longer though. 90% more time spent. #
• Going out to deposit the cheque. #
• If everyone's always bitching on Twitter, it's going to make this place a cesspool. #
• http://www.jamesgriffioen.net/ Someone needs to nuke Detroit from space. #

a line a bend a bend
a little space
a line a loop
a little space
a line a half bend
a little space
a inclined line & so on
a long space,

is what you need
is what you get when
the systems that fill the void
of form with things that
mean things
turn off,

and your name is a map from here to there
like a rose’s colour reaching out to slap
or grass’s tickling mosaic green,

a line a line a jot a mark
where the pen has
fallen off the page.

• The kitchen… it sparkles! #
• Anyone hear Barnaby Bright's "If I Came Back As A Song"? ? http://twt.fm/229695 #
• So I made more ice cream today… and it's awesome. Just FYI. Great stuff. #
• Is Apple trying to make Microsoft look good with its iPhone antics? Jeez. I want one… but not that badly. #
• Windows Update Error Message 0xD0000006 is making me crazy. WTF is it? Microsoft sure doesn't seem to know. #
• Okay so hopefully things will slow down a little bit here. #
• When people are given to constant exaggeration, it's hard to guage their reality and interact with it. #
• There's nothing quite as insulting as being given a useless or worthless reward. It feels like you've been tricked and manipulated. #fb #
• I hate being yelled at for things that are my fault. I hate it because I'm already yelling at myself and that's all I need. #
• You really can't top the feeling of fixing a problem. Even if it's your problem. There's something about making things right, eh? #
• I think class struggles are something we're always going to have with us, even if it's just country mouse/city mouse. #
• The anticipation of vacation is, I think, almost as good as the vacation itself. But the days leading up to it? What a nightmare slog. #
• I swear, every time I see something from Fox News, I think "this is why American conservative are the laughingstock of the world." #
• Any sufficiently digital playback is indistinguishable from copying. #quotes #
• Sparkles The Stripper Dog! #failedchildrensbooktitles #
• Harry Potter Does Los Vagas #failedchildrensbooktitles #
• I want an extension for Thunderbird that will send out mail after a specified delay. Anyone know of one? #

• Hot and sour soup? Done. Now for some laundry! #
• I dislike being manipulated. #
• Twitbin is pretty awesome so far. #
• Going to eat some hot and sour soup from last night's soup-making excursion. #
• And another rush job worms its slimy self out of the wordwork. Shit. #
• Another quote bites the dust! #
• I don't want to step into that place where I know their deepest thoughts. #
• Salesmen ignoring our free shipping policy again. Asshat. #
• Never learns. Does the same over & again. Loses his shirt. No backbone. Poor when he shouldn't be. Taking me with him. #
• Who are all these people following me and why are they doing it? #
• /ddeboer.php&is=grumpy&wants=togohome&needs=morecoffee #
• That fax machine beeping is enough to make me homicidal. #
• Finding loopholes and blocking them is an arms race–we all know it–but it's so damn fun! #

• Thunderbird 3b3 is pretty good. But the indexing is going crazy about once daily for me. #tb3b3 #
• HELLO EVERYONE, HEED ME, FOR I AM MAKING CUSTARD!!!! #
• Okay, so it's ice cream now. #

• Thunderbird's latest icon set? Big, blocky, ugly. #

• Great new music: Acetate Zero's "Hesitation Blues", Jack Penate's "Everything is New", John Paul Keith's "Spills & Thrills". Check them out! #
• Laura: "You have a Darwin beard!" Me: "I'll show you the origin of MY species!" #