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Saturday, December 30, 2000

googleyed

playing alittle random search now that ive installed the google in my browser. pretty useful. if theyre tracking me.....so be it. nothing i havent seen before. i tried to install newsblogger too but i havent got it working yet. so playing a little i-wonder-if-i-can-find-anything-on-this-person. heres what i came up with for a friend from high school. pretty much where im at now id say. except im playing hearts on yahoo while shes writing papers in medical journals about them. ok, shes into diseased joints, maybe we still have something in common after all.

Heidi Michelsen, MD, graduated from Barnard College in New York and attended medical school at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, also located in New York. She is presently a fifth-year resident in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. After residency, Dr. Michelsen plans on combining a sports medicine and foot and ankle fellowship while traveling the globe. She will spend one year with Dr. Walch in Lyon, France, three months in Basel, Switzerland, at the AOS Institute, one year in Sidney, Australia, with Dr. Pinczewski, and six months in the US doing foot and ankle.

whitewash

im no meteorologist but ill have to say it looks like snow. i say, let it keep snowing straight on into the new year. shut down the bridges and tunnels. if youre not on the island than youre somewhere else. and yes, the new radiohead album is a good listen in blizzard like conditions.

Friday, December 29, 2000

stormcenter

this storm better be something. theyre already comparing it to the one back in '96 before a flake hits the ground. can it be 5 years already?

hot air

tilting windmills in germany.

movie roundtable

A Critic Responds to His Critics by David Edelstein,Roger Ebert, J. Hoberman, Sarah Kerr, and A.O. Scott

claire sailing

Who is Claire Swire

Invasion of the 'Blog

the ny times finally gets around to its blogger piece. nice phot of megnut and ev. i wonder how many hits a link on the times will generate? oh yeah. blogger is up to around 75000. how high will they go?

buzzword

"So Beller�raised on the Upper West Side, now living in Greenwich Village�threw himself into creating a New York City-based, nonfiction Web site, modestly called MrBellersNeighboorhood.com, hoping to promote, he says, "a kind of writing, energy and feel that is vastly underrepresented," which he characterizes as "urban folklore, the weird collective personal history of the city. You're not always working on a novel or a grand piece of writing, sometimes you just want to go off about a candy store."

link to mr bellers neighborhood.

eater me

"You can learn a lot on the Internet. Just yesterday, for example, I learned that Gore voters associate with criminals, that Gore himself is gay, and that if Bush becomes president then a group of liberal financiers is planning to crash the stock market. There it was, in one place: The Conservatives' Greatest Hits."

"ny times"

The Village Voice: Nation: Irony on the Rise

burning bush

theres been alot of talk about clinton setting aside alaskan wildlife preserves before he leaves office so the shrub and his oil mongers cant get their grubby hands all over it. in an times oped piece, jimmy carter puts his expresidential stamp of good governance on the idea. hopefully clinton will follow suit. he probably wont be able to save the middle east in two weeks so this act could make a lasting exit statement. much better than a cigar.

Thursday, December 28, 2000

idiotext

now ive changed my mind or ive remade it. the d'oy has been recast. i am an idioteque. no wait. definitely morning bell.

cenatours

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Arizona, Texas, Florida and Georgia gained two seats in the House, while New York and Pennsylvania lost two as the Census Bureau unveiled the first results from this year's national head count that will be used to reassign the 435 House seats among the states. There were 281,421,906 Americans on April 1, 2000, the Census Bureau said Thursday. That was up more than 33 million from 1990 count. In a surprise, Florida picked up two seats with a 23.5 percent population gain. Scientists had expected it only to gain one seat based on 1999 population estimates. Georgia also picked up two seats with a 26.4 percent gain. Nevada recorded the largest population gain, 66.3 percent gain over 1990, but picked up only one seat. As expected, Arizona and Texas gained two representatives in the House. Arizona had a 40 percent gain in population from the last census a decade ago, and will go from six to eight congressional districts. Texas had a 22.8 percent population gain, and will have 32 House seats. "

m&ms make friends

"PORTLAND, Ore. �� An Air Force man who allegedly went AWOL got trapped in a snowdrift for 16 days, surviving on M&Ms and orange juice and scrawling a farewell note to his parents before snowmobilers came upon him in his car."

itchy and scratchy

"a type of nerve cell that appears to be responsible for itching has been identified for the first time by US scientists, holding out the prospect of treatments to soothe the skin against irritations. Experiments on cats� spinal cords at the Atkinson Pain Research Laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona, have found a series of neurons that fire only when the cats� skin is exposed to histamine, a powerful itch-inducing agent. The study, reported in Nature Neuroscience, is the first to identify a nerve pathway by which the itching sensation is transmitted, and solves a mystery that has long confounded neurologists. While scientists have been aware for some time of specific neurons which transmit painful stimuli, a mechanism for the feeling of an itch has been elusive. The findings have yet to be replicated in humans, but researchers are hopeful that a similar discovery might lead to better palliative and preventative treatments for itching. Such a drug would be helpful to patients who suffer from �therapy-resistant itch�, which often results from conditions such as dermatitis, liver disease, chronic kidney disease and HIV infection. "

great falls

"After a pastor blessed the apartment at Mark's request, he stayed, but the cat was not convinced. He lives with McGiboney now. Others in this town, with its orderly blocks and deeply imbedded sense of independence, are still struggling with the notion that a serial pedophile linked to cannibalism walked these streets and drew crowds of children to his weekly garage sales of ''Star Wars'' memorabilia and stuffed animals."

get off it

"The technical problems that many consumers have encountered with D.S.L. are bad enough by themselves, but some critics think the Federal Trade Commission may have added to confusion in the high-speed Internet industry when it agreed to sanction America Online's acquisition of Time Warner only if the combined company agrees to open access to its broadband, or high-speed, Internet network to competing service providers. In light of the decision, the problems encountered by people like Ms. Salladay are likely to draw a lot more attention. Recently, even Andy Grove, the chairman of the Intel Corporation, had to wait a week for his D.S.L. service to be repaired in his Silicon Valley home."

Wednesday, December 27, 2000

release me

finally succumbed to the new radiohead album kid A. i think i heard somewhere thats a reference to human cloning. anywho.......me likee.

some words about kid A from salon.

some live tracks. morning bell is my current fave or maybe national anthem or is it how to disappear completely???.

blue xmass

previously censored smothers brothers material from the late 60's. tame by todays standards.

the devil made me do it

Hanson (not manson) Family Facts Table

galapaghost

Where Darwin Mused, Strife Over Ecosystem

mr mojo fallin

When Presidents Spin the Economy

freeper madness

free republic is a repository for all right wing loonies where they can chat about what rush limbore said and spread disinformation. heres what i found when fiddling around the schiff-gore alliance.

i guess there was speculation at jewhoo that this branch of the schiffs had eschewed their judaic roots. but there seems to be some doubt. not that it matters but its funny that the freepers make such a big deal out of it. jewhoo entry

heres some google search action on gore-schiff. yeah ive been there before but why not revisit?

Tuesday, December 26, 2000

editors note

Really Rosie

SO FAR AWAY

(Carole King)

So far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore
It will be so fine to see your face at my door
And it doesn't help to know that your just time away
Long ago I reached for you and there you stood
Holding you again could only do me good
Oh how I wish I could
but you're so far away

One more song about moving along the highway
I can't say much of anything that's new
But if I could only work this life out my way
I'd rather spend it being close to you
but you're so far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore
It will be so fine to see your face at my door
And it doesn't help to know you're so far away
So far away, yeah you're so far away

Traveling around sure get's me down and lonely
Nothing else to do but close my mind
And I sure hope the road don't get to own me
There's so many dreams that I've yet to find
But you're so far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore
It will be so fine to see your face at my door
And it doesn't help to know
you're so far away, you're so far away
You're so far away, you're so far away
Oh I need to get in touch with ya baby
You're so very, very, very far away
You're so, so far away

on good authority

more 70s midi magic.

camera shy

someone told me that the baby shrubs have sniffing problems like their old man which led me this page of puerile presidentialia.

blue plate special

American Elections: System or Farce? (by Edward Said) - Media Monitors Network

keep a watchful oy

The Bush Watch

Monday, December 25, 2000

fitz like a glove

ny times books on f scott fitzgerald with rare audio clips.