Archive for November, 2004

One year to the day

Today, heliologue.com turns one year old. I first registered the domain on Black Friday 2003, after an unsuccessful attempt to get a cheap LCD monitor from Best Buy. It’s already seen a lot of reincarnations, though since the beginning of 2004, I’ve had a blog of some sort fairly consistently.
Firstly, here’s [...]

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Give thanks to the goddess Duodena!

Abou gaped at Hardee’s new Monster Burger. I say, is 2/3lb of beef all you can muster, Hardees?
On the day of the year when Americans give thanks for having the luxury of eating themselves further into the rest of obesity (the ones that can afford it, anyway), I think it’s only fitting to talk [...]

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In the news today

Because I’m extremely busy and don’t have time for any long dissertations, I’ll comment briefly upon today’s articles on CNN.
Women make up nearly half of the 37.2 million adults living with HIV and in sub-Saharan Africa the proportion rises to almost 60 percent, according to a U.N. report released on Tuesday. [link]

What? Why is [...]

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When Steve Ballmer speaks, God kills a kitten

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer on Thursday warned Asian governments that they could face intellectual rights-infringement lawsuits for using rival open-source operating platforms such as Linux.

Ballmer, speaking in Singapore at Microsoft’s Asian Government Leaders Forum, said that Linux violated more than 228 patents. He did not provide any detail on the alleged violations, [...]

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The cusp: HL2

It’s November 15th, and Half Life 2 is almost here. Halo 2 flew by me, unnoticed (I’m neither a fan nor an XBox owner). Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines is but a blip on my radar. I’ll play it later. I have my newly replaced 9800PRO (which I almost screwed yesterday with [...]

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5 ways to protect your computer for free

So, you’ve got a computer, and let’s say for the sake of argument that you’ve got it hooked up (very possibly via a cable or DSL modem) to the big scary internet, a glorious beacon of information, entertainment, and hot Asian teens, but also teeming with viruses, advertisements for Viagra, and people who’d love nothing [...]

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shortly brier bathes in brine

our last orison bleakens shortly,
bleakens shortly milching clover,
     brier;
coiled clover, shortly brier
     bathes in dirty brine,
the milching brine.
the spiral twists and peels,
the knots roiling,
twisting tired; kink;
the hoses clamp,
peeling bare the rusty plug;
     kink.
his father dims the filament,
dims thinly breaking bulbs;
     stems;
sleeting glass, slightly dimming;
     thinning wire;
the breaking father.
the autumn waltzes solemnly,
the dancing gold.
solemnly the breeze,
the freezing waltz; [...]

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