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Odds and Ends

2007-10-19

Dropped by the local social network one.lv. They ate my brain.
A photo of a blonde and the caption "WINTER TIRES AND METAL RIMS"

I bought a Boneco 2055 air humidifier. So far the benefit is unclear, waiting for frosts and real testing.

I couldn't be happier with the Sony Reader. It now has good software for converting html called LIBPRS and there's long been software for pdf/djvu - Just Another Printer. With these two programs (well, plus fb2lrf to complete the set), the Reader becomes almost completely convenient.

Here is the kind of t-shirt I got:

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Everything is crap, except

2007-10-17

I was told a story recently.
At one micro-apiary there was one strong bee colony and one weak one. The weak one didn't stock up on honey for the winter, and so people took honey from the strong colony and gave it to the weak one, so it wouldn't starve to death. The bees of the strong colony caught wind that their honey had been illegally expropriated.
Then they flew over to the weak colony, whacked everyone, took the property, and returned it where it belonged.

Moral: if you take from the rich and give to the poor, nothing good will come of it.

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