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The speech.
This is the transcript of the inaguration speech of President George W. Bush on 01/29/2005.
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A long time ago…
So after my recent entry, I looked back on the “this day in my blod” thing and say an entry from 2001 referencing a review I wrote a long time ago. I decided to archive it here for safety.
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I speak many languages…
Long ago I started my programming days in [[wp:BASIC_programming_language|BASIC]] as did many others. Then I graduated to [[wp:C_programming_language|C]]. Roughly in order of accumulation, some of the other languages I became familiar with are… [[wp:BASIC_programming_language|BASIC]] [[wp:C_programming_language|C]] [[wp:Assembly_language|Assembly]] [[wp:C_Plus_Plus|C++]] [[wp:Visual_Basic|Visual Basic]] [[wp:Perl]] [[wp:PHP]] [[wp:Python_programming_language|Python]] [[wp:C_Plus_Plus|C#]] [[wp:Ruby_programming_language|Ruby]] There are more of course, any number of small embedded languages…
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The fighting pacifists!
Ah, the left – poor, confused, desperate freaks that they are. With the Democratic party rudderless and the war in Iraq firmly refusing to turn into the debacle (complete with large numbers of US soldiers in body bags) they really need to feel like htey finally get to pretend it’s the 60’s they have little…
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Brutality…
Wow. This is cold… “Ok fine. Then you must be 5’1 and have a very small frame….with a bunch of um, stuff covering it.” – quote in context You want to see the rest of the thread? Go ahead and read this TuckerMax blog post to get the story, then read this whole thread to…
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Hot number(s)! The golden ratio…
TLC :: The Human Face is a good article discussing facial beauty and proportions. “Dr. Marquardt theorizes that we discern whether a face is obviously human by unconsciously comparing it to an ideal face that lurks in the unreachable recesses of the psyche. Since we have no direct access to this ideal “most human” face, we…
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Think happy thoughts…
So I was reading a book recently and I decided to drop a note to someone who features prominently int he tale that we had been in touch with once long ago. To my amazement they wrote back. Rub your crystals, say a prayer, do something unspeakable with a dark god – but let’s see if…
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Geek out!
A number of geek links. Science, technology and Apple’s latest toy… Keeping secrets Science & Technology at Scientific American.com- Best-Kept Secrets — [ INNOVATION ] — Quantum cryptography has marched from theory to laboratory to real products How people work If they can’t even play with trucks correctly… – Metafilter – a typically panicky discussion…