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Heist movies are meta-movies?

Nice line from an article about Steven Soderbergh's films: [...] nearly every heist movie—predicated on an elaborate and improbable plan...

Jed

September 27, 2009
Filed under: Commonplace Book, Movies
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Happy 0th birthday, Anandan!

Today, Mary Anne gave birth (via C-section) to her and Kevin's new son Anandan. Welcome to the world! Sounds like...

Jed

September 24, 2009
Filed under: Birthdays, Parents/Children/Family
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What I’ve been up to

Been a while since I've posted anything about what I've been doing. Not really sure where the first half of...

Jed

September 22, 2009
Filed under: Life Updates
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Belated happy launch anniversary to Strange Horizons!

It was nine years and three weeks ago that Strange Horizons launched. I mentioned that in passing in mid-August, during...

Jed

September 22, 2009
Filed under: Strange Horizons
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9

I thought I'd been hearing good things about the new movie 9, and I certainly liked the look of it...

Jed

September 21, 2009
Filed under: Movies, Reviews
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How to find MySQL in Snow Leopard

Just discovered that in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the directory /usr/local/mysql no longer exists. Which means that if...

Jed

September 20, 2009
Filed under: Apple, Databases
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Backup day

I hereby declare today to be Back Up Your Data Day. Today, I recommend doing a backup that you don't...

Jed

September 20, 2009
Filed under: Computers
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Happy holidays!

It's once again that time of year, when some major religious holidays and a secular holiday or two all happen...

Jed

September 20, 2009
Filed under: Religion
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Satellite contemplating observatory contemplating satellite

I fairly often take photos of friends who are taking photos; sometimes they're even taking photos of me taking photos...

Jed

September 19, 2009
Filed under: Photos
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Libana: A Circle Is Cast (rounds and chants) in iTunes Store

Libana is a world music ensemble focused on "the traditional and contemporary music and dance of the world's women." I...

Jed

September 19, 2009
Filed under: Music
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Items: Friday morning linkery

A few cute and/or fun tidbits (mostly visual) from skimming the last couple days' worth of Twitter: Neat videos of...

Jed

September 18, 2009
Filed under: Cute, Humor, Links, Photos
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Dialogue about racism in fan communities

Smart and interesting discussion in the latest issue of Transformative Works and Cultures: "Pattern recognition: A dialogue on racism in...

Jed

September 15, 2009
Filed under: Race/Ethnicity, Speculative Fiction
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