four:eleven a micro-journal by john w. cooper

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december
2000
december
31
sunday		 Playing a simultaneous turns version of Milken with my brother Frank and a ghost player. We're both staring at the board and planning our next move.
december
30
saturday		 We're at Shelob's Lair in the Lord of the Rings game. "I want to get to there," says Dad, and plays a card.
december
29
friday		 Driving through backwoods on Beaver Dam Road, halfway listening to CSpan radio -  Bush's pick for Secretary of the Interior is giving her acceptance speech.
december
28
thursday		 I'm writing an email to Lisa Lazar: 'Enjoying life, worrying about money and my failing eyesight, blah blah.'
december
27
wednesday		 'the ones i can remember are:  geoff hurst (famous footballer) if you got a first.  a 2:2 is refered to as a desmond.  and if you fail, you got a dan quayle.'
                 - Jim Risner on the Boogie Charade email list
december
26
tuesday		 Gina and I are sitting in a car, I'm at the wheel. We're waiting in a traffic jam in Orlando.
december
25
monday		 Watching TV with Gina. Marty McFly's wife pulls a pizza out of the oven. His son says, "Is it ready?"
She puts it on the table. "Here you go."
december
24
sunday		 I'm writing with permanent red marker on a piece of paper cut from a paper bag: 'FrOm ThE ORcS' (the S is backwards).
december
23
saturday		 Waiting in line at a Big and Tall store, playing Spades on my palm pilot and attempting to listen to an unknown rock song in the background.
december
22
friday		 Rinsing soap from under my arms over the bathroom sink.
december
21
thursday		 Gina and I are in her Mom's car, driving up I-95. Gina says, "It's not the name of the town, it's the name of the apartment complex."
"Yeah I know," I reply, "I'm just kidding."
december
20
wednesday		 Waiting at the customer service desk at REI, looking apprehensively toward the exit.
december
19
tuesday		 Gina and I are in the kitchen. I'm sitting at the table idly turning an Enya CD cover in my hands. I say, "Where do they get such money? I want some."
"Well, apparently Don," she says, "and, I guess Jessica's mother."
december
18
monday		 Setting my alarm on my palm pilot for 10:00 tomorrow reminding me to call Bob Smith.
december
17
sunday		 Leo is speaking to Jane: "If you're contracting out to different embassies they're not always uh,..."
december
16
saturday		 I'm spreading fake cream cheese on a slice of whole grain bread.
december
15
friday		 John Marketon points to a circuit diagram in a book. "This is known as a pull up pull down." He sighs and leans back in his chair. "It's, it's..."
december
14
thursday		 Gina's in the living room talking on the phone: "But I have four boxes that I can bring tomorrow morning. Yeah."
december
13
wednesday		 'Ounce for ounce, raw red peppers gave four times more vitamin C than peeled oranges.'
- globalideasbank.org
december
12
tuesday		 On the telephone with my Dad; He laughs and says, "Oh, so you do this all the time, do you?"
I say, "No, no, I don't do that."
december
11
monday		 Robert L. Forward points at another slide -- an artist's rendition of a laser sail spaceship. "This sail will bring us to Epsilon Eridani. Next slide please."
december
10
sunday		 Watching TV, a channel with bad reception. Warren Beatty and Annette Bening are sitting on an airplane together. Warren says, "Don't tell me he runs it."
"Actually he does."
"What is he 30, 35?"
december
9
saturday		 Another Langley Punks movie starts rolling. Black and white picture, handwritten credits, and a hillbilly song: "Just say the word darling, and I'll leave town. Come on, stop cloning around."
december
8
friday		 Geminids look like most meteors -- they tend to be fast-moving and yellow in color. But there's something special about them. Other meteor showers happen when Earth passes through the debris trail of a comet.
- science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast08dec_1.htm?list152246
december
7
thursday		 Running down the stairs at work, smiling, wondering if Tsi Chi heard me when I said that Gina made the hat I'm wearing.
december
6
wednesday		 Looking at columns of data, blocked beam scans of JPL's MISR sphere from August 19, 1996, wondering how to interpolate blocks for mid levels.
december
5
tuesday		 My dad reaches for his glass of red kir and tells the bartender, "Well I'm glad they're still here."
december
4
monday		 I'm scrutinizing radiance data, looking every 50 nanometers at ratios, searching for a pattern.
december
3
sunday		 I say, "that's great!" as I watch Gina place her unfired udu back on the highest shelf.
december
2
saturday		 'Jilin seemed to be considering whether he would have time to grab the lighter while he pushed Shan off the edge.'
                       - Eliot Patterson, The Skull Mantra
december
1
friday		 Jim Butler is talking to his computer: "Shut up! Go to bed. Thank you."
november
2000
november
30
thursday		 Fingers poised over the keyboard, I glance left at the grating position indicator LED (showing a rapid decrease in wavelength) and judge that it'll be over a minute till the scan starts.
november
29
wednesday		 I'm looking at a clue on today's Cryptic Crossword from the London Telegraph: '15. Beam needed by Thor Heyerdhal, say (6).'
november
28
tuesday		 'For some players, ownership (e.g. declaring loudly that, "all gas planets are mine, so stop putting graffiti on 'em, or I will kill your whole family") is enough to tag many playing pieces...'
- my EGO TAG web page
november
27
monday		 I twiddle my latex-gloved thumbs in the dark, yawn as I glance from my computer's monitor to the monochromator's signal LEDs. There's a U2 song in my head - "One".
november
26
sunday		 "He puts landing strips on the roof, I mean it's unbelievable."
- Diane Mayer
november
25
saturday		 I arrive at the Berwyn Cafe's coffee table with my empty paper cup, pick up a pitcher of half n half and pour some into the cup.
november
24
friday		 Kit's shaking ice from an ice container, over the sink. I turn on the spigot, then turn it off again.
november
23
thursday		 I'm eating a fork-full of mashed potatoes and stuffing, and listening to Margit Gedra: "...It doesn't taste like soup at all."
november
22
wednesday		 John Marketon pushes a backgammon board aside as my dad approaches our table and says (to John), "So evidently your cell phone is no longer working."
november
21
tuesday		 '...to achieve the most thorough scientific investigation of a comet yet attempted. This very ambitious mission was made even more remarkable by the in-flight failure of DS1's sole star tracker...'
- email - FW: Announcement for Eng.Colloq.(11/27/00)
november
20
monday		 I toggle the chopper's power switch to the off position, and stare briefly at the red LED indicators as I decide whether or not to turn the whole system off.
november
19
sunday		 In bed, lying beside Gina, hugging her sleepily. For some reason mixed images from Kids in the Hall are going through my head.
november
18
saturday		 Thinking about a news story about SUVs being stolen and cut up for parts, while I'm driving behind a Pathfinder on I-95 toward Philadelphia.
november
17
friday		 I'm choosing a slightly darker gray for the background color of a table on my Graveyard page.
november
16
thursday		 Dozing on my back in bed, having a mishmash of quick forgotten dreamlets. I think there are conversations, but I can't remember any of the words.
november
15
wednesday		 I'm sitting in the lecture hall in Building 3, listening to John Gilbert: "So, so this raises a whole bunch of questions."
november
14
tuesday		 I'm driving Dippy; a woman announcer on CSpan radio says, "We're also going to hear from Charles Burton who is a Palm Beach County judge."
november
13
monday		 Mike King is pointing with a laser at a slide of a projected satellite image of the world titled 'CERES reflected Solar Flux Feb 26'. He says, "So it'll be brighter over the desert, it'll be brighter over clouds."
november
12
sunday		 I'm finishing up writing an email: 'I see no reason why either one should give up now. Greenspan must be chuckling a bit, though.'
november
11
saturday		 I'm standing in the kitchen, pointing back and forth between Jenny and Gina, who are sitting at the kitchen table laughing. "That's worse! Because I know the difference between you two, I just accidentally say Gina or John -- I mean Gina or Jenny!"
november
10
friday		 Gina's in the kitchen, I'm exiting a nearby closet with a rag in one hand and a glass of white vinegar in the other. Gina says, "There's another thing I worry about - that other house," She turns to me while she's cutting up a red pepper. "It doesn't have a utility closet."
november
9
thursday		 I read a picture's caption on spacescience.com: 'Above: This painting by Duane Hilton depicts a Leonid outburst over Yosemite's Half Dome. The shower's radiant  in 2000 is very near the waning quarter Moon.' Then I glance at the Moon in the picture.
november
8
wednesday		 "I think we're going to have to replace the shafts, sooner or later."
- John Marketon
november
7
tuesday		 'Calvert Group, a U.S. mutual fund company known for socially and environmentally responsible investing, announced yesterday that it is launching the first-ever socially screened fund investing in technology companies.'
- Daily Grist newsletter
november
6
monday		 'If Gore-Tex hold the states that they now have and take the undecided states based on the most recent polls and leanings, the final tally would be Gore 269, Bush 269.'
- bushwatch.com
november
5
sunday		 I'm at a drum jam in our woods (great beat!), tapping a stick on the side of my dijeridu and breathing in to begin playing it.
november
4
saturday		 'The doctor said to the Bishop, "So you see, my lord, your young ordinand can live no more than three years and doesn't know it. Will you tell him, and what will you do with him?"'
- Margaret Craven, I Heard the Owl Call My Name
november
3
friday		 Lynn Margulis points with a red laser pointer at a large screen that is showing a video of a kidney-shaped bacteria moving a little in place. "Here's one of the cells that came out," she says, "it's going to go through some division here."
november
2
thursday		 'A database at least needs a version number and date of last update, in addition to the above sort of rating.'
- Andrew Plotkin
november
1
wednesday		 "If students in 2050 want to learn to read and write - although, with VIVO, why would they?"
- William Crossman

 
october
2000
october
31
tuesday		 "Other countries have lots of other, powerful parties..."
- me to John Marketon
october
30
monday		 I'm reading a spreadsheet of old four:eleven entries:
"Bahks, Bahks."
"It really hurts..."
"Coulda been like a..."
"Bahks! A Bahks!
Meanwhile, I hear my office mate Gil mumble, "Gonna go home and hope I get paid."
october
29
sunday		 Gina and I are standing in our bedroom. I'm folding clothes and watching TV. Xena says to Gabriel, "That's why she wants to know what you're going to do once you get inside Mogador."
october
28
saturday		 I'm pulling out a lyric insert from Sarah McLachlan's Touch CD while listening to her song Vox: "I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined."
october
27
friday		 I'm sitting on a stainless steel bench, whistling Sgt. Pepper while I put my right foot into a cleanroom booty.
october
26
thursday		 "And they have to be reminded that if we don't calibrate, *their* calibrations are invalid."
"I know, but in this case I just-- I mean, I can let them do it tomorrow, if they need it..."
- John Marketon and me
october
25
wednesday		 John Marketon and I silently watch the Sphere Aperture Mapper mechanism twist and hum into position.
october
24
tuesday		 I whisper "Oh yeah," as I exit a vending room, twisting off the cap of my soda.
october
23
monday		 'Richard Noone is another guy who thinks May 5 is the date to watch out for, and is capitalizing on that idea with his book, 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster.'
- About.com's Prophesies for 2000
october
22
sunday		 Walking along a gravel road beside fields and woods. Stacy, Beverly (carrying Gavin, her kid, in a backpack carrier), and Ken are behind me, The dogs, Booda and Riley, are ahead. I overhear Stacy saying, "It's just the place to be."
october
21
saturday		 Sitting on a rug at a picnic, various people and babies around me. Anu talks to her daughter (a toddler). "He's calling you. You want to say hello to him?" I'm thinking she's talking about Booda, but then realize it's Billy (another baby).
october
20
friday		 'The socks he leaves on the brown and white carpet in O.J.'s  bedroom come from two other screenplays with similar carpets,  Guilty Conscience, and a 1988 remake of "Shadow Play" from  The Twilight Zone.'
- Jasper Garrison
october
19
thursday		 I'm scanning a Google list: 'California 2000 Election  ... good economic times. Gore leads Bush ... to 34%'
october
18
wednesday		 I right-click a curve on a graph, push the 'None' button under 'Marker' and click 'OK', hoping to see more structure in the graph.
october
17
tuesday		 Si-chi Tsay, in a very crowded lecture room, taps a graph (it is labeled 'cloudy sky' and 'clear sky') on a screen with his pointer: "This is what you get, OK? The blue curve."
october
16
monday		 'George W.Bush
 PROS: Loves guns and white lines, scares the bejesus out of Saddam
 CONS: Frat boy who doesn't understand how microphones work'
- ugo.com
october
15
sunday		 We're in the kitchen - Gina's chopping onions, I'm sitting at the table and reaching into a bag for another pretzel, and Booda's sniffing over my lap, hoping for a handout.
october
14
saturday		 'And then, and then... visit my favourites with the occupants of the tour bus when I return to the present day. And smile quietly when the guide discusses the grafitti that everyone knows is a hoax, just because it's signed Naughtius Maximus.'
- Marcus Morgan, in Time Travel Sweepstakes
october
13
friday		 Sitting in a darkened cleanroom, looking at notes on a docked laptop: 
'16:02 G001013h 16 lamps 
 16:09 *****lamp H96587 on'
october
12
thursday		 "Up to the very end when you hear the heart beat."
"Uh huh."
"Boomp-boomp, boomp-boomp, boomp-boomp..."
"Yeah?"
"Dorothy's listening to the Tin Man's heart."
- me and Jim Butler
october
11
wednesday		 John Marketon is flipping through a book - Zany Afternoons by Bruce McCall. I snicker, point and read one of the headlines aloud: "Brother Can You Spare a Glance?"
october
10
tuesday		 I'm trying to think of a name for a book store for Koralleen. I put my hands behind my head and lean back to look up at the ceiling, while my office partner Gil talks about fixing and selling houses. I'm mulling over a Kurt Vonnegut quote, something about putting on armor and attacking a sundae, and thinking maybe Hot Fudge Books? Nah. Gil says, "My house? Oh, my, Gawd."
october
9
monday		 Playing Dominos with Kory and Ken; it's my turn. I place a domino to match another six pip, hoping that the four changes by my next turn.
october
8
sunday		 I'm beaming an application to David Strother's Palm. He says, "Ok, receiving: Moon.' Thank you very much."
october
7
saturday		 I'm talking to Gina as I drift the car backwards to leave our space in front of the Looneys' house. "'Cause I told him I'd take it back home, if he wasn't there."
october
6
friday		 I'm rinsing my hemp coffee filter under hot water.
october
5
thursday		 'It reminds me of a -- there's a MacLeash poem, I can't remember, it's like a circus tent, and something about, he looks up at the end of the poem and "there, there, nothing at all" ...'
                           - transcript, Jerry Brown, interviewing Gore Vidal
                                  on the We the People radio show
                                                     July 8, 1996
october
4
wednesday		 'When things get so balled up that the people of a country got  to cut loose from some other country and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are not trying to put nothing over on nobody.'
- H.L. Mencken, The Declaration of Independence... in American
october
3
tuesday		 Whistling Counting Crows's song "Hangin' Around" and watching for the screen to come into view as I sit down, one hand on the mouse circling to turn off the screensaver, the other hand holding an OCR software package for installation.
october
2
monday		 I'm taking a phone survey from Agilent. The woman asks her next question: "And from what other major companies do you use instruments and testing equipment?"
"Hmmm, other companies..." (I can't remember any company names for our equipment.)
"What major companies," she says.
october
1
sunday		 Sitting in Greg Luckner's Manhattan apartment, listening to Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel on a Simpsons CD: "Hey you know what? I can call my mom from up here! Hey Mom, get off the damn roof!"

 
september
2000
september
30
saturday		 Missed 4:11! Wedding reception music too loud to hear my alarm.
september
29
friday		 Listening to Ivy in a rental car - "It just couldn't be, only a fool could say that..." - while driving on 95 North; just saw an exit sign that says 'Joppastown.'
september
28
thursday		 I flush the urinal, zip and turn around to head toward a sink. An older man (looks Indian, has gray hair & glasses) is leaving the sink area. He smiles and quietly says something, maybe "excuse me?" (sounds like an Indian accent) and walks past me to the door.
september
27
wednesday		 'origin: from Middle English "vouchen sauf", "to warrant as safe"

 1. To condescend to grant or bestow (as a privilege); deign.'

- Word-of-the-Day email
september
26
tuesday		 I copy a quote from Word-of-the-Day to a note I'm writing to the Zuckermans:
 >  It has been brought to our attention that a anagram
 >  of "Rush Limbaugh" is "Ah! glum hubris." 
september
25
monday		 I type 'G000925', switch quickly to my notepad application to check the last filename ('G000925g'), then back to my control program, append an 'h' and hit the Enter key.
september
24
sunday		 I'm at the Renaissance Fair, replying to Rich, "long as I gets a little golden shower." Then I yell, "Hey Gina!"
september
23
saturday		 I'm talking with my brother Bill in my living room. I say, "I think that's pretty common because I went to a buyers' meeting at um NASA, and they mentioned it."
september
22
friday		 I'm asleep next to Gina, having unrecoverable dreams.
september
21
thursday		 I'm waiting at a red light, vaguely listening to a news report on the car's radio, something about oil and politics: "...and for failing to provide tax cuts for people who save energy..." The sun is in my eyes, glinting bright through the window.
september
20
wednesday		 On the phone with Gina; she says, "I mean, we should get as much money as we can, right?"
september
19
tuesday		 I'm on the phone with Leo. I say, "The only thing they used to say that some people might consider 'bad' is, 'is he gay?'"
"Oh yeah, I remember that," says Leo.
september
18
monday		 I'm listening to Charles Townes, inventor of the maser and laser, in a lecture. "Well, they just thought that was crazy, visible wavelengths. Now by that time (before that, 1957, the maser had just been invented)..."
september
17
sunday		 Kory places his hand on some face up cards that lie on his side of a small, round, black felt-covered table, and says, "Maybe it should be the other way around. Maybe *this* should be what you're paying with."
september
16
saturday		 Walking, with Gina following, down a steep road. I'm holding my dijeridu in one hand and eating hard pretzels out of the other. "Good pretzels," I say, with pretzel in my mouth. 
"Huh?" Sounds like pretzel in her mouth too.
"Good pretzels."
september
15
friday		 Playing Freecell on my palmtop in the cleanroom while I wait for my monochromator to finish its scan. I'm wondering how to get down to that 9 of diamonds.
september
14
thursday		 I'm sitting on the sofa with Gina, with my feet up on the sofa. I'm coughing.
september
13
wednesday		 Asleep, having a mishmash of dream vignettes. George W. Bush is in one, saying "subliminabubble, subliminababble."
september
12
tuesday		 In bed with a cold, reading from a book by Delany titled Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand: '(moments later he realized her approval was because she most likely thought the gross currents in the plate might have interfered with the workings of the glove had he put it on the other hand; she had taken his choice as sign of the glove's success.)' I can hear Gina sorting through silverware in the other room, only it's not silverware, it's a box of pieces of stained glass.
september
11
monday		 In a van on a highway - I'm looking at pictures of miniatures in a Game Trade magazine, from an article titled Wiz War in 3-D. Andy, who is driving, passes a water bottle to Kristin.
september
10
sunday		 I'm at a booth at the Takoma Park Folk Festival, filling out a yellow form for a subscription to a poetry magazine called Visions.
september
9
saturday		 I'm looking at an online stock brokerage: 'Fill out our simple online application today! If you currently have an account, you can click here to apply for additional accounts.' I click 'Continue'.
september
8
friday		 I'm typing on a laptop in the cleanroom: '(bank 1 coming up 6.5048a).' I'm very hot, and conscious of the sweat building up in my latex gloves.
september
7
thursday		 John Marketon's in my office, saying, "Here if you go walking down the street with what looks like a cigarette hanging out of your mouth but it's actually a joint, you get your ass thrown in jail. Why? What good does it do anybody?"
september
6
wednesday		 I'm on the phone, talking to Debbie at a finance company: "OK, so I talk to Greenbelt and then fill out the loan application..."
september
5
tuesday		 John Marketon says "It costs 800 dollars to replace all the lamps but that's not critical now. Um... Hey. You're off by a minute!"
september
4
monday		 Walking along a paved path toward the lake, thinking about jokers and my planned Milken revisions.
september
3
sunday		 Gina holds open her backpack and says "Put everything in here that's little. The gallon of water first maybe."
september
2
saturday		 Andy Looney is talking to me on the phone: "OK, Dale wants to make a phone call, and then we'll make a decision."
september
1
friday		 I'm looking at the doctored photo on a webpage titled In-A-Gadda-Da-Oswald, and wondering if Oswald was really in front of the guy who's now playing the keyboard.

 
august
2000
august
31
thursday		 I click the 'Window' menu and choose 'Monitor experiment Hardy' and paste a column of data in, just as the monochromator's control program begins a high pitched extended "beeeeee!" to let me know it's finished.
august
30
wednesday		 Quietly singing an old Beatles song ("...hide your head in the sand little girl, catch you with another man, that's the end") while looking for a size Large cleanroom suit in the anteroom's cabinet.
august
29
tuesday		 John Marketon and I are chewing corn chips and watching the "product counter" on my program increment quickly.
august
28
monday		 I double click on new email from my brother Kit. The subject line reads 'Re: COOPER NEWS FLASH'.
august
27
sunday		 I'm waiting for a page with the definition of 'myrmidon' to load.
august
26
saturday		 We're at a phone booth in the Jupiter section of a space-themed cornfield maze. Zarf says, "Is there in fact a camera visible?"
august
25
friday		 I rub my left eye and squint the right one, focusing finally on a sentence from Dave Farquhar's interview with Reiner Knizia: 'I usually start with a topic, and try to find a mechanism or algorithm to give a simple image of the subject.'
august
24
thursday		 I've just surfed to a site. The heading reads:
'ISSUES2000
 Every Presidential Candidate On Every Issue'
august
23
wednesday		 "Well, that's convenient."
"Yeah."
"You had it right on the watch."
"Yeah."
- me and Gina
august
22
tuesday		 I'm talking to Skip on the phone. He says, "Do you guys want to meet for lunch, or what?" 
I ask, "What, meet at twelve or something?"
august
21
monday		 I'm watching Booda and Buster play-fighting in the front yard.
august
20
sunday		 Hiking down a steep, rocky mountain trail. Rick Dutton and Chris Welsh are
debating. Rick says, "You think, 'if I can figure out this mathematical
theorem, I can be alpha wolf.'"
"Not at that moment," says Chris.
august
19
saturday		 I turn another page in a sports magazine, and see a small picture of a strong
naked woman on a bicycle. I say "Hey..."
"What?" says Chris.
"That's a neat picture."
august
18
friday		 "I'm not wearing any underwear."
"I know. I kissed you."
- Gina and me
august
17
thursday		 Working at my office computer - I open the BuildTokenList.vi diagram window.
august
16
wednesday		 I'm blowing my nose into a paper napkin, and staring at my program on the monitor.
august
15
tuesday		 I enter John Marketon's office and say, "OK, so I have it building a token table. At least a simple one."
august
14
monday		 'My suggestion is Gnostica. Any better ideas?' 
- me, in an email
august
13
sunday		 Here I am, presented with the same problem, and I still don't do anything!
- thoughts while driving
august
12
saturday		 "Well, would it be in the Yellow Pages?"
"Should be."
"Or is it out of range?"
- Kory and me (via phone)
august
11
friday		 "He is young."
"He's not that young."
- me and Jim Butler
august
10
thursday		 I'm talking quietly to myself, while I'm programming: "So. The first thing's the token. Check the token."
august
9
wednesday		 My desk computer prompts me, 'To open the document, select an alternate program, with or without translation:' I highlight 'BBEdit 4.5' from the list, and click 'Open'.
august
8
tuesday		 I'm sitting on a toilet, quietly whistling the William Tell Overture through my teeth while switching to the Main tab on my palm pilot's launcher.
august
7
monday		 I'm rearranging LabVIEW indicators by quickly dragging and dropping icons in a diagram window.
august
6
sunday		 Kory and I are examining a chessboard. I say, "You know what I was thinking
you might do..."
Kory smiles. "What?"
"I was thinking you'd do this."
august
5
saturday		 I'm unraveling 75 feet of tangled rope and telling Rich "It's a good thing you're not doing this twice in one evening!"
august
4
friday
'Black Darkness
Some Bad Goth Poetry(tm)

As nighttime claws at the edges of my eyes,
The cry of the raven tainting the night...'

- Graeme Jefferis
august
3
thursday		 I'm looking at LabVIEW diagrams while John Marketon says, "Zero. I'm describing a new token..."
august
2
wednesday		 I'm looking over an email I'm about to send to the Icehouse mailing list:
'3. Bandaid - This is a rule that may *appear* to be flavor or spice, but is *only* used to fix a problem, and actually *doesn't* fix the problem, or it creates another problem.'
august
1
tuesday		 'The "super-ko" rule, adopted by many associations, including the American Go Association [2], declares that repetition of the whole board pattern is not allowed. This rule seems reasonable in most practical cases, but has been criticized as being hard to administer and giving some "surprising" results.'
               - www.cs.cmu.edu/~wjh/go/rules/Precise.html

 
july
2000
july
31
monday		 'The Palm OS® Software Development Kit version 3.5 is free, but requires agreement with the following license. By clicking "I Agree" below, you agree to the license. From there, you will be able to download files.'
 - www.palmos.com/dev/tech/tools/sdk35.cgi
july
30
sunday		 "Do you dance there?"
"I did one. Yeah, we try."
- me & Brick
july
29
saturday		 I'm fixing up the sofa for guests and half-listening to Weird Al's song I Lost On Jeopardy: "Well I'm giving up Don Pardo, just tell me now what I didn't win."
july
28
friday		 'Subs cleared: 100%' 
- SubHunt on palmtop
july
27
thursday		 I've just dialed Leo. I'm listening to the phone ring, and I'm thinking about the Queen Elizabeth II (a cruise ship).
july
26
wednesday		 "Hey John?"
"Hey--"
"Um, on your way out, could you go lock up the engineering lab?"
"Sure."
- John Marketon and me
july
25
tuesday		 "It said, 'Eight Pound Man Removed from Woman's Vagina.'"
"Heh, cool."
- Skip and me (via phone)
july
24
monday		 I'm highlighting the words 'speed of' in the phrase 'shapes of galaxies speed of gravity', which I have entered into Google Search.
july
23
sunday		 "No! Stop it. That's not nice."
- me to Booda
july
22
saturday		 "Oh no doubt about that, you start thinking about other things. You know, other than cruising around on your bike."
- Atticus Cosgrove
july
21
friday		 I'm lying in bed, more or less awake. I can hear Gina and the upstairs neighbor Atticus outside having a conversation. Sounds like Atticus is saying, "Oh yeah, they'll give you anything you want!" Then he laughs.
.
july
20
thursday		 'Mickie,
Please enter the following PR into the system, then return this e-mail to me with the PR Number and the Date Entered spaces completed.'
- top of Purchase Request template
july
19
wednesday		 I'm writing on my palm pilot: 'Dad - dragon story'. Gil Smith comes into the office and mutters, "I've gotta get outta here, see ya."
july
18
tuesday		 'we visited friends in alaska
 where skeeters bite and don't ask ya
 we lost all our bags...'
- a bad limerick I'm writing for Boogie Charade
july
17
monday		 "Pretty funny."
"The artwork is right on."
"It looks pretty close. It's not as detailed."
 - me & Stacy
july
16
sunday		 "OK, the awful horrible rule is that a koan has the Buddha nature if it has two and only two flat pieces pointing at nothing." 
- me
july
15
saturday		 "I think the dimensions are standardized throughout the airlines."
"I think so, I have them in here."
 - Eric Zuckerman and me
july
14
friday		 I'm staring blankly at a sign over a booth at Origins: 'SPACE 1889'.
july
13
thursday		 Looking past the wing at the landscape below, as we descend into Philadelphia.
july
12
wednesday		 "Oh yeah! Great! Thanks."
"This is huge!"
- me and Gina (to a waitress)
july
11
tuesday		 "The most noted reaction is intensification. Ordinary objects  and surroundings become extremely interesting --"
- Lori Denn reading _Timothy Leary Theory_ (an article by Michelle Biggerstaff)
july
10
monday		 But be sure to keep your receipts and hang onto this."
- LAB airline clerk
july
9
sunday		 I shove a handful of Golden Crisp Cereal into my mouth and pick up a glass to get water.
july
8
saturday		 'Biker disappeared; might have been killed by bear. Green, nylon jacket found shredded and in many pieces with "teeth" punctures.'
- More Alaska Bear Tales, by Larry Kanuit
july
7
friday		 "This is the bar that Michelle worked at until recently."
"Until recently?"
"Yeah, she finally decided she couldn't handle it anymore."
- Sherry Biggerstaff and me
july
6
thursday		 I'm filling out an accident report: "PARKED CAR AT CEDAR POINT. CAME BACK TO FIND'
july
5
wednesday		 I'm kissing Gina while waiting in line for Mean Streak.
july
4
tuesday		 I wipe my face with a paper napkin and look around for the restaurant's restroom.
july
3
monday		 I'm watching a video monitor while waiting in line for a roller coaster. Stimpy puts a strange contraption of a hat on his head and says, "prepare to activate!" The helmet explodes.
july
2
sunday		 "It's just the way we do it, here, in Ohio." 
- me
july
1
saturday		 I'm scooping cooked vegetables out of a large iron skillet into a plastic container.

 
june
2000
june
30
friday		 "So, over here what I've done... Damn!" 
- John Marketon
june
29
thursday		 'john has stinky pants
 john has stinky pants
 john has stinky pants'
- email from my brother Kit
june
28
wednesday		 (Is there enough information if each player has a six-card hand?)
june
27
tuesday		 I type '12 lamps Slick', hit the enter key twice and the spacebar once, jump up from my seat and head for the power supply rack.
june
26
monday		 Listening to the phone ring and thinking about Trog telling me how his brother died of a syndrome similar to Mad Cow disease, and that the last thing he said before he died was "MMoooOOO!"
june
25
sunday		 (I thought you were once good friends. I'm very sorry...)
june
24
saturday		 "Hey Renee, can you reach back there and plug this in somewhere?"
- Alison Frane
june
23
friday		 "Yeah, yours is not flat. The one that they're serving over there is flat."
- unknown customer speaking to bartender
june
22
thursday		 "He asked if anyone had Glaucoma in the family."
"Yeah, well, Mom had it."
"She did?"
- me and Dad (via phone)
june
21
wednesday		 "Dammit, what the hell am I reading? DVD..." 
- Jim Butler
june
20
tuesday		 "Don't squeeze it too much." 
- me (on phone)
june
19
monday		 'Before contacting TUCOWS PDA Helpdesk please download
 our frequently asked questions guide for the site.'
- ozonline.pda.tucows.com/helpdesk.html
june
18
sunday		 Ashton:  "I wanna see it."
Douglas: "See what?"
Ashton:  "My arcade game."
Douglas pushes the thirteenth floor button.
june
17
saturday		 "And they said yeah I guess it's no big deal at all."
- Andy
june
16
friday		 I'm writing 'Find Twilight Armada' in my personal To Do list.
june
15
thursday		 Lying on my back, half asleep. Gina is lying on her side, head on my shoulder, leg across my leg. Snatches of a song - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life - are running through my head.
june
14
wednesday		 I say "hmm!" and poke the memo titled 'TEST' on my borrowed Pilot.
june
13
tuesday		 I'm carefully carrying an alcohol-soaked cloth across the cleanroom prep area.
june
12
monday		 Rob Levy, who is wearing a full cleanroom jumpsuit with hood, appears to have an expression of fatigue. I say, "Hot enough for you?"  He nods slowly.
june
11
sunday		 "Is this movie just two hours long?"
<shrug> "Dunno."
- Jenny and me
june
10
saturday		 "Stupid! Stupid stupid stupid stupid! I touched the hot wire right there -- I'm an idiot!"
- me
june
9
friday		 "The deal with the Naval Academy fell through I guess."
- Jack Bufton
june
8
thursday		 Lying on my back thinking of that epidemic movie (Outbreak, starring Dustin Hoffman), the scene where everybody's in a theater and you get a bug's eye view of viruses escaping in the ejecta of a sneeze.
june
7
wednesday		 I'm rolling the empty orange lift cart down the hall. John Marketon is behind me, miming something about the alcohol wipes he's carrying. (I translate his gestures as something like "where is the isopropanol?")
june
6
tuesday		 I clear the display and enter '285.' into my calculator watch, and its alarm sounds for four:eleven.
june
5
monday		 "Oh, we went on a house and garden tour yesterday."
"How much did that cost?"
"Nothing."
- me and Leo
june
4
sunday		 "So, we're going to come straight up 295."
"OK, you're coming straight up 295."
- Maugorn and me
june
3
saturday		 "Mom's always in the house, it's just that we never get breakfast."
"Yeah, I'm always in the house."
- Jennifer and Koralleen Stavish
june
2
friday		 'Riiight. Just don't mention zoophilia 'round these folks.'
- memepool.com
june
1
thursday		 "...so that Elian, the father, and the family may resume their lives away from the scrutiny of the media and the uncertainty that the legal battle has caused for his entire family."
- Janet Reno

 
may
2000
may
31
wednesday		 "Speedbumps would be a good idea."
"Speedbumps, yeah!"
  - Anon and me
may
30
tuesday		 Jim Butler and Anonymous enter my office and Anon. says, "Hey John! You just missed another buying opportunity, the market's up by 7.9 percent!"
I respond quickly, "Four:eleven's about to hit, I just thought I'd let you know."
may
29
monday		 I'm half asleep on an airplane as it taxies down the runway.
may
28
sunday		 I mutter to myself: "I gotta get outta here."
may
27
saturday		 "If they like the storyline then they'll want to use her artwork for something else."
 - Christine LeBeau
may
26
friday		 "I've got Najam Sashwami!"
  - unknown badger at Baycon
may
25
thursday		 I take a big bite of my roasted eggplant and red pepper sandwich.
may
24
wednesday		 I mutter "copy," pick up my soda, and watch the monitor.
may
23
tuesday		 "You just make four squares, nominally the same size."
  - Ted Early
may
22
monday		 "Actually, they were working on EPIC already  and they needed a cleanroom."
  - Lanny Sterritt
may
21
sunday		 I'm driving towards Khaled's house, listening to Fleetwood Mac: "First you love me, then you get on down the line, but I don't mind."
may
20
saturday		 BATTLEFIELD EARTH  :(
Cave men find heavy
metal for Kiss, and destroy
a classic novel.
- haiku movie reviews
may
19
friday		 I open the copier and peel two post-it notes off of a shipping document.
may
18
thursday		 "I didn't go."
"Oh."
"But he probably was there."
- me and Leo
may
17
wednesday		 '>WHO'S YOUR FAVORITE POET?  John Cooper

 Hey, that's sweet, but I think the question means,
 "person who writes your favorite poetry,"'

- me, replying to Jenny Lynch
may
16
tuesday		 "...that the typical American family has an increasing amount of debt."
- Noel Adams (?) NPR
may
15
monday		 'REGISTER HERE TO SEARCH CHEAP TICKETS LOW FARES'
- a cheap airfare website
may
14
sunday		 "This message will be <beep> You may listen to your old messages or continue. To listen to your old messages push listen or three. To continue, push enter or pound."
- my office phone's voice mail
may
13
saturday		 "All of Jake and ToK's recent ideas about Nomic and stuff like that..."
-Kory
may
12
friday		 "Now that I'd be interested in going to."
"It was neat!"
- me and Rob Levy
may
11
thursday		 "You have four old messages. Your l<click>"
- my office phone's voice mail
may
10
wednesday		 "I mailed your package."
"Oh, good."
- me and anon.
may
9
tuesday		 'Kissing Hank's Ass is a lovely little parable that the right Rev. Jim Huber created as part of his "I'm an atheist because God told me he doesn't exist" website.'
- me
may
8
monday		 '> The people we have to be careful of are risner and cooper and me.
 >
 > -rrrrdon

         Get 'em Jim.'

- email, Jim Reardon and Leo
may
7
sunday		 "So everybody has some information about sort of where you're gonna play."
 - Kory
may
6
saturday		 I'm chewing potato chips and looking out the back door at Gina squirting Booda with the hose.
may
5
friday		 'Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to David Duchovny (SPCDD)
 You've got the Humane Society, you've got the Cancer Society, and then you've got this site. Where are your priorities?'
- http://www.ggower.com/fans/
may
4
thursday		 "He'll get a cheaper ticket. So that might be Thursday or Friday."
- Brent Holben
may
3
wednesday		 "Somebody who shall remain unnamed has been eating all the raisins."
- Gil Smith
may
2
tuesday		 'But Madame Keyne's brow knit, and her hand left Old Zwon's to tickle her bony chin. "Feyers of the Vygernangx monastery in the Garth peninsula, you say?"
- Samuel Delany, The Tale of Potters and Dragons
may
1
monday		 I'm walking towards the main lab. My neck hurts and I'm thinking about beer.

 
april
2000
april
30
sunday		 "There's the vegetarian food."
"Pphphp. Yup."
"Five hours later."
- Gina, Denine, and Niecey
april
29
saturday		 I say "Hmm," as I'm examining some of my html source code: '<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica">We showed up too late to sister Cecily's'
april
28
friday		 "If that's what they're pulling --"
"They should give you money."
"They used to."
- John Marketon, me, and Jim Butler
april
27
thursday		 I'm typing, 'No, "presumably",' and I hear John Marketon talking quietly to Gil Smith: "What we will do, with," -- and I don't hear the rest of the sentence.
april
26
wednesday		 I'm whistling Oh Bondage Up Yours (by X-ray Specs) while typing '=STDEV(Data!$B2:$K2)/AVERAGE(Data!$B2:$K2)'
april
25
tuesday		 "Hey I'm getting a big kick out of the Looneys' web site for the last two weeks." 
- Leo
april
24
monday		 "After you stop eating it for a few weeks, you don't want it anymore. At least I don't."
   - me
april
23
sunday		 "HUAGHGH!"
"You want some support?"
                  - Joe (who's barfing into a sewer grate) and me
april
22
saturday
  • 'CABLE or NORMAL has been selected and channels have been programmed into your VCR's memory. See "Placing Local Channels in the VCR," page 8.'
- VCR manual
april
21
friday		 "Going to Jaspers?"
"Yeah."
"This is getting to be a habit."
- me and John Marketon
april
20
thursday		 '=CONCATENATE("L",Setup1!B7,"[",Setup1!H6,Setup1!I6,"]")'
- spreadsheet entry
april
19
wednesday		 I'm whistling the wa wa part of Close To You, scratching my wrist, staring at the monitor and wondering what to rename 'New H96587.cal'.
april
18
tuesday		 "Check it out."
"One, two... oh my --"
"--his ass! Ha ha!"
- Three unknown guys in a bar, watching TV
april
17
monday		 "Measure the size of this, the size of your front aperture, and the distance between the two..."
- me
april
16
sunday		 "Done."
"Hey!" 
- Gina and me
april
15
saturday		 "Now you almost want Dominate to be something that runs."
- Kory Heath
april
14
friday		 "Anyway, that's why we do all those careful calibrations. Well, one reason."
- Tom Arnold
april
13
thursday		 I close my LabVIEW window and think about going home soon.
april
12
wednesday		 "That's weird. This is high." 
- Rob Levy
april
11
tueday		 'Ships usually departed in the morning or the evening -- now it was no more than three hours after noon.'
- Samuel Delany, The Tale of Potters and Dragons
april
10
monday		 'Project: calibration
 Instrument: 746' 
- me (entering data in a form)
april
9
sunday		 "So, two player -- we've found that ten works fine." 
- me
april
8
saturday		 Ginohn adjusts the maroon fabric (that will be used for our head tube) on the cutting board.
april
7
friday		 'Her soup was the sea and her bread was the island afloat in it. The smell of apples in batter recalled the orchards where she had picked them up last week, or run with others to steal them last year.'
- Samuel Delany, The Tale of Old Venn
april
6
thursday		 "Reading about what the guy went through was kind of stressful.  And the physics book, actually having to keep up with it."
- Leo
april
5
wednesday		 "It's slowing down. You gave my computer a virus."
- me
april
4
tuesday		 "So you could have, in one day --"
"You could have cleaned up, John."
- me and Anonymous
april
3
monday		 "Puppeee!"
"Puppeee!"
- Ginohn
april
2
sunday		 "The baby has to suck a little longer."
"Ready set come on let's go..."
- Meg Naab and Dave Palace (he's singing)
april
1
saturday		 "Oh! you got a little sunburn there."
"I know, that's what I've been told."
- Bill Cooper and me

 
march
2000
march
31
friday		 "Let me check this."
"And there's still room in there." 
- me and Gina
march
30
thursday		 "I think you can hurt yourself if you do zero."
"You can! I think you can."
- me and Jim Butler
march
29
wednesday		 "The only solution is more coffee," I say out loud to myself, and squeeze some honey into my cup.
march
28
tuesday		 'Write To Spreadsheet File.vi -
 Converts a 2D or 1D array of single-precision numbers...'
- LabVIEW help window
march
27
monday		 I'm whistling Sugar Sugar (by The Archies) while perusing my company's newsletter. A headline reads, 'HRD Launches ERP 2000.'
march
26
sunday		 "I'm gonna need some sort of two-player game rules..."
- Andy
march
25
saturday		 "He was genuinely going insane?"
"Yeah. I think he's homeless now."
- Kory and me
march
24
friday		 (Burn, Choke, Drain,... Smother?)
march
23
thursday		 I type 'Laurel' into the Replace box in the Find window.
march
22
wednesday		 (It goes up in the silicon range, around two percent...)
march
21
tuesday		 (Hey man, these prices look pretty good...)
march
20
monday		 I hear the muffled laugh of someone in another room, just as I finish typing '51%' into a cell in a spreadsheet.
march
19
sunday		 I choose a purple Banish spell from my hand and lay it face down for the incantation.
march
18
saturday		 "I don't know, you could play Rambots with the black pieces."
- Alison
march
17
friday		 "There are some things rats won't do. And the second one is, they get no protest groups."
- David Finnley
march
16
thursday		 I'm picturing Gina coming in the door while I'm reading Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson -- 'The circuit III "mind" never gets beyond the permutations and combinations of those tunnel-realities originally imprinted, or abstractions associated with the imprints through later conditioning. And so forth.'
march
15
wednesday		 I'm trying to remember how to fold the back wing and landing gear of Dad's airplane.
march
14
tuesday		 'We immediately recognised him as Don Whillans, one of the foremost climbers of his generation and probably the greatest British alpinist ever.'
- Hammish MacInnes, The Price of Adventure
march
13
monday		 I'm looking through a small pile of scrap paper on my desk for Gina's work number.
march
12
sunday		 "Is John coming too?"
"No no --"
"No, he's just calling --"
"I'm staying here."
"Gina's coming over..."
- Andy, me, Alison, me, and Alison (almost all at once)
march
11
saturday		 I pull the oil dipstick out of Dippy.
march
10
friday		 I'm lying on my back, petting Booda (who is lying against me).
march
9
thursday		 "This I won't read either. I don't need that either."
- Jim Butler
march
8
wednesday		 'That's interesting. Their thoughts already don't mesh with neopaganist views across the net.'
- me
march
7
tuesday		 "That's crazy."
"I'd be careful."
"It's going to be interesting to see what comes out of this."
- me, Jim Butler, and Peter Abel
march
6
monday		 "OK, at this point -- this is the halfway point."
"This is a race."
"Two, four."
- John Marketon and me
march
5
sunday		 "Trog?"
"Bill Mayhew!"
"Yeah." 
- Jenny Dingell, Henry Kenyon, and me
march
4
saturday		 "David, this is my dad Bill, and my mom Leona."
- Joe Naab
march
3
friday		 'H000209h.all
 H000209i.all'
- highlighted file names in a spreadsheet
march
2
thursday		 "Ever hear about those orders that are discalced? It's 'cause they have no shoes. They go barefoot or wear sandals."
- Jim Butler
march
1
wednesday		 I step into the hallway from my office, holding my empty coffee mug. I see John Marketon down the hallway telling Jim Butler, "I'll be back in a minute."

 
february
2000
february
29
tuesday		 'Because the classical ground state completely specifies both the particle's speed (zero) and position (at the minimum), it violates the famous Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (m dv dx > hbar).'
- Scientific American
february
28
monday		 'The singular, English noun monkey has 1 sense.
 1. (monkey) ape; [English] monkey, ape; [French] singe
       <= mammal; [English] mammal; [French] mammifère, mammifère ...'
- ThoughtTreasure query
february
27
sunday		 "GO!"
"No he can't go because he already cheated."
"I cheated?"
"John has poopy pants! John has poopy pants!"
- Gina, Kory, me, and Frank (on the phone)
february
26
saturday		 "The variant we used for Martian Chess was cool but hard to remember to do it."
- Kristin Looney
february
25
friday		 I'm minimizing a Netscape window and I hear Gil Smith ending a phone conversation: "We can do that, ha ha! Alright. See you. Bye."
february
24
thursday		 'This means that a sorcerer has to decide at times whether to take some demons and run, get more points than the last guy that left, or convince the other sorcerers to work together to capture all the demons and close the Rift (thereby saving humanity, blah blah).'
- me
february
23
wednesday		 "That's an idea -- Lollipop! That could be the answer."
- Jim Butler
february
22
tuesday		 'Finally, AIBO is also named after the Japanese word for "pal," because AIBO is a great companion for people'
- Sony about AIBO page
february
21
monday		 Crunching through the slushy snow on the Appalachian Trail in PA. The sun is in my eyes; Gina, Stacy, and Booda are ahead of me.
february
20
sunday		 "Oh yeah, he likes it.  Hey Mikey."
- Gina
february
19
saturday		 Jake and Kory look on as I rev up Kory's DynaBee.
february
18
friday		 "They should factor in pilot blackout."
"They?"
"Did you write this?"
"Yeah."
- Jim Butler and me
february
17
thursday		 I'm choosing a Vertical Slide in the Control menu for LabVIEW.
february
16
wednesday		 'Please wait while Setup searches for installed components...'
- Windows 98
february
15
tuesday		 'No I hadn't.  Thanks again, O  Cybermeister.'
- W W Cooper
february
14
monday		 'Through our humanistic philosophy, we hope to establish a basis for acceptance of our natures in society through esoteric and occult study and practice.'
- The Inner Circle Coven of the Laiad - Philosophy
february
13
sunday		 "...then they have more incentive to decline, which you get a point for."
- Kory Heath
february
12
saturday		 I'm whistling Alcohol (by Bare Naked Ladies) while grabbing my carton of whipping cream from Thom and Kathy's refrigerator.
february
11
friday		 (Of course, you could summon demons from your own hand, too.)
february
10
thursday		 I'm using a stand-up urinal and thinking about Demons.
february
9
wednesday		 "She dismissed it, because she knows it'll go to the children. I mean, that's a very christian way to behave, don't you think?"
- anonymous
february
8
tuesday		 'Curiously, all three of Paul's methods deprive the brain of tryptophan, directly or indirectly. He believes this is a significant clue.'
- Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger
february
7
monday		 "The rest of the job you had to do stuff for five credits."
- Rob Levy
february
6
sunday		 "And when I go to the store I'd like to be able to look inside the computer."
- me
february
5
saturday		 "Teens Honor God Through Sex"
- me
february
4
friday		 The auditorium lights come on right as the lecturer David Randall is saying, "We hope that you take a look at this and what we have done..."
february
3
thursday		 "A Spitfire. He's trying to sell it."
- Dave Manion
february
2
wednesday		 'He had developed a seven-dimensional game model and insisted on analyzing all behavior in terms of the (1) roles being played; (2) rules tacitly accepted by all players;...'
- Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger
february
1
tuesday		 I'm closing a bunch of data files one at a time in an application while remembering parts of a movie I saw last night (The Green Mile).

 
january
2000
january
31
monday		 '15:12 S000111A BLOCKED 16 LAMPS 380-1100@10nm  PA=317°'
- my calibration log
january
30
sunday		 Me to Izolda: "The Looneys have no water."
Andy Looney (on phone): "And a house -"
Me to Andy: "hold on a second."
Andy: "...was condemned!"
january
29
saturday		 "Did you want some water?"
- Gina, to Mango
january
28
friday		 "There are some who claim that the velocities are quantized. A very unusual idea. A very unusual idea."
- Yervan Terzian
january
27
thursday		 "That's right, you need this for the next operation anyhow."
- me
january
26
wednesday		 I type 'Hierophant: Attack and Convert'.
january
25
tuesday		 Gina looks up from her cards to me. "I think... I want to go home," she says, just as Booda starts barking loudly at someone he sees outside.
january
24
monday		 'Finally, in Figs. A-3 to A-10, numerical values of the angle factors have been plotted for those configurations for which such information is available.'
- E.M. Sparrow and R.D. Cess - Radiation Heat Transfer
january
23
sunday
"He had cream of mushroom noodle tomato soup."
- Meg Naab
january
22
saturday		 "I have always wanted to be on the four:eleven, but I've never been on the four:eleven."
- Jake Davenport
january
21
friday		 "Yeah, I don't think it's like that, really."
"At the dealers' it is."
- me and Gil Smith
january
20
thursday		 (Good, good!) 
- narrator in my dream
january
19
wednesday		 'Z = 1+(1+X^2)*Y^2'
- me
january
18
tuesday		 'One of us could be the Master and one could play as three or four seekers.'
- Kory Heath
january
17
monday		 "Can't wait for those sardines, huh?"
"Yeah! Fishy little treats."
- me and Chris Welsh
january
16
sunday		 "It's a wall pack!" 
- Chris Welsh
january
15
saturday		 "Like Adlai Stevenson..."
"Like pills in a box."
"Like Jimmy Doolittle..." 
- Chris Welsh, me, and Bruce Beard 
(singing to the tune of John Denver's You Fill Up My Senses)
january
14
friday		 "We haven't hit stop and go traffic, so..."
"Yeah, maybe we can stay ahead of the wave."
- Bruce Beard and Chris Welsh
january
13
thursday		 'This makes work more like play, and play more like performance.'
- Leslie Burgoyne
january
12
wednesday		 '...typically at the highest lamp level (all lamps on). A baffle is put directly in front of the spectroradiometer, so that the...'
- me
january
11
tuesday		 "That's characterization of the sphere..."
- me to Jim Butler
january
10
monday		 "Sixteen ten, lamp off. Right."
- me (to myself)
january
9
sunday		 "Mom, Mom? Mom!!"
"Oh hey, hey!"
"It's OK, she's family."
- Amber Atikins, paramedic, and friend in Drop Dead Gorgeous
january
8
saturday		 'http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Ginohn/games/kriegspiel/volatile.html
 I keep changing the name. If you guys get any good ideas, let me know.'
- me
january
7
friday		 "No, fetch means... Good boy! Good fetch! ...Booda, you're silly."
- me
january
6
thursday		 "What're you calibrating now? Seavifs?
"No, that's the, uh..."
"Oh, it's the Spectralon sphere!"
- Jim Butler and me
january
5
wednesday		 'Please insert Windows 98 Startup Disk 2
Press any key to continue . . .'
- computer monitor at work
january
4
tuesday		 'futilitarian (fyoo-till'-ih-tair'-ee-an) n. one who believes that human striving is futile'
- Alison Frane
january
3
monday		 I'm standing in a tire store with my father.
january
2
sunday		 "'I'm a vampire.' And I had this really long conversation with her about uh, this --"
"Drink your coffee."
- me and Barchan
january
1
saturday		 "So that's where it's leaking my blake fluid!" 
- me

[the four:elevens of 1999]
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