24 Nov 2001, 15:21 p.m.

Not quite as much aaaaaaarrrrrgh &tc. …

Not quite as much aaaaaaarrrrrgh &tc.

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24 Nov 2001, 10:36 a.m.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgghhh!!! …

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgghhh!!!

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23 Nov 2001, 22:02 p.m.

What's this? Cal won a football game? Oh,…

What's this? Cal won a football game? Oh, darn, I was hoping for an 0-and-n season to commemorate my senior year.

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23 Nov 2001, 22:00 p.m.

I wish my dad were more considerate. …

I wish my dad were more considerate.

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23 Nov 2001, 21:55 p.m.

Angel came over and we gabbed, gabbed, gabbed. If Dia de…

Angel came over and we gabbed, gabbed, gabbed. If Dia de los Muertos is the Day of the Dead, Dios de los Muertos would be the God of the Dead (as Angel corrected my ignorant-California-resident …

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23 Nov 2001, 15:52 p.m.

From a Slashdot comment: "Thanksgiving is really about little kids…

From a Slashdot comment: "Thanksgiving is really about little kids and olives... Ok, big kids too, but mostly olives." I love olives.

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23 Nov 2001, 15:39 p.m.

Goodness, Slate gets slower and slower with every redesign. A woman…

Goodness, Slate gets slower and slower with every redesign. A woman outside a supermarket (ostensibly collecting money for charity) asked me what language(s) I speak, probably to derive my ethnic origin. "English and Russian" threw …

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23 Nov 2001, 15:21 p.m.

Mary Kay, entrepreneur encourager and cosmetics queen, has died. …

Mary Kay, entrepreneur encourager and cosmetics queen, has died. I imagine Frances already knows that. When I break the Buy Nothing Day tradition, I do it big. My purchases today included business garb (for interviews …

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22 Nov 2001, 23:24 p.m.

I used to read a Calvin and Hobbes every day,…

I used to read a Calvin and Hobbes every day, off calvinandhobbes.com. But that habit lapsed, and today I read some Watterston for the first time in months (not counting the strips that I see …

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22 Nov 2001, 23:20 p.m.

Mixed-up bookshelves: at one Thanksgiving shindig I attended today, I saw…

Mixed-up bookshelves: at one Thanksgiving shindig I attended today, I saw Moby Dick next to The Illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes next to The Days Are Just Packed! I got through half of the Watterston …

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