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strawberry ice cream (www.derf.net)
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20050804 strawberry ice cream. Prev in "elsewhere on the web". Elsewhere on the web. Next in "elsewhere on the web". Elsewhere on the web. Thu 2005-aug-04 12:32:54 pdt. Just came across this article. About a study in which researchers were able, through the power of suggestion, to make people believe they had as a child gotten sick from strawberry ice cream. The same did not work with chocolate chip cookies. Okay, so far so good. This all seems fairly unsurprising to me. Post a comment on this entry.
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Run Lola Run (www.derf.net)
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20050911 Run Lola Run. Prev in "movie reviews". Next in "movie reviews". Sun 2005-sep-11 12:54:16 pdt. On Wednesday (on the airplane) I watched Run Lola Run. Which I'd been intending to see for a long time. The concept and structure of the film are original and effective, but I won't say too much about that aspect. The story is engaging and the acting is strong. I also really enjoyed the music - something I don't usually particularly notice. I guess it's more prominent than in most films.
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archives (www.derf.net)
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Prev in "blog-on-blog action". Thu 2005-sep-29 17:54:06 pdt. Further enhancement to simplify browsing around old entries in my blog: at the bottom of the front page (and other pages which aggregate entries, like section and tag pages), you can now jump back to earlier entries. (Used to be that the front page had the most recent 20 entries, and anything further back was a little trickier to navigate to.). Reader comments on this entry:. Thu 2005-sep-29 22:39:32 pdt. Is it Neil or Fred? Elsewhere on the web.
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mysterious spam (www.derf.net)
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Prev in "blog-on-blog action". Next in "blog-on-blog action". Fri 2005-sep-02 00:59:27 pdt. But then I fixed that. Then all of a sudden today, I got a big wave of them - it appears that someone actually went to the trouble of automating the posting of spam to my site. It's already pretty odd that anyone would have bothered to do that, since their scripts are not going to work anywhere else on the web. But wait - it gets weirder. I don't get people. Reader comments on this entry:. When I decided that blac...
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Panic (www.derf.net)
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Prev in "movie reviews". Next in "movie reviews". Sun 2005-oct-16 12:20:10 pdt. Yesterday we watched the strangely-titled Panic. I'd never heard of it before, but based on the description - something like, "a hitman (William H. Macy) having a midlife crisis starts seeing a therapist (John Ritter), and falls in love with another patient (Neve Campbell)" - I thought it sounded interesting, though my expectations were not high. It actually turned out to be quite good. Reader comments on this entry:.
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He Loves Me. He Loves Me Not. Tue 2005-nov-08 01:37:41 pst. Sunday night we watched He Loves Me. He Loves Me Not. French title: A la folie. pas du tout. It was good, though it suffered a bit from the "plot summary reveals too much" problem - I think I would have liked it better if I'd known less going in. What I would have preferred not to have known. In any case, as usual, Audrey Tautou gives a good performance, and she's reason enough to see it. Sun 2005-oct-23 23:20:22 pdt. After watching the Firefly.
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tagging (www.derf.net)
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Prev in "blog-on-blog action". Next in "blog-on-blog action". Thu 2005-sep-22 02:48:52 pdt. I've now implemented tags. For my blog. So now you can browse around my old blog entries in hitherto-unpossible ways. How exciting. Of course, I'll have to go through and add more tags to more old entries, but I've done a bit of that already. But wait, that's not all! As always, let me know if you run into any problems - if something's broke, don't assume I know about it. Reader comments on this entry:.
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100% true stories (www.derf.net)
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Adventures in Job-Search Juggling. Thu 2005-oct-20 15:03:28 pdt. In July of 2001, I was looking for a job. Here's an email I sent one day back then:. So I finally tried out something a friend of mine had suggested for how to get the nice people at TiVo to notice me. I said "mostly java, server-side stuff", we said a few more things, he introduced himself as Richard, and then he said "I'll go see if I can get some engineering managers out here". Woohoo! So anyway, I think what I need to do now is go back ...
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elsewhere on the web (www.derf.net)
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Elsewhere on the web. Elsewhere on the web. Here are some silly warning signs I made with Safety Sign Builder. A tool that seems perfectly designed for being used for something it wasn't designed for. Small images and printable PDFs of them. Elsewhere on the web. Thu 2005-aug-04 12:32:54 pdt. Just came across this article. Okay, so far so good. This all seems fairly unsurprising to me. However, the researchers claim, "We believe this new finding may have significant implications for dieting.". It's not e...
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random thoughts (www.derf.net)
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Mon 2005-aug-08 13:14:26 pdt. A few days ago my watch broke - the little knob you pull out to set the time came off entirely and so the watch is just stopped. It didn't come off while I was pulling it out to set the time or anything, I just noticed at some point that my watch was a couple hours behind, and stopped, and that the little knob was missing. Odd. Okay, I think I'll go with this one. What color hat am I wearing? Tue 2005-may-10 15:07:22 pdt. Sun 2005-apr-17 15:54:39 pdt. Blah blah coding blah.
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