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    • Maybe economics is bunk
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    • How to spend money
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  • Apr 2009
    • Best. Alphabet song. Evar.
    • Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano
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  • Mar 2009
    • On having one's performance managed
    • You haven't heard enough about the AIG bailout
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    • FDIC to the rescue
  • Feb 2009
    • Memory Lapse 2009
  • Jan 2009
    • This won't bother you...
    • Who do you think you are?
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  • Dec 2008
    • The power of joy
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  • Nov 2008
    • Sunday afternoon
    • savelogs 1.90 released
    • On responsibility
    • Too much connectivity is a bad thing
    • This title is self-referential
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  • Oct 2008
    • On being unaffiliated
    • She said 'melancholy' as if it were a bad thing...
    • Halloween at our house
    • Are you a qualfied individual?
    • Utah voting: how to do a write-in candidate
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  • Sep 2008
    • I will never move again
    • Foto Friday: pull up a chair!
    • Swinging a cat
    • Restaurant: Tango House
    • Foto Friday: Mongolian Stir Fry
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  • Aug 2008
    • Foto Friday
    • Paul Graham on doing what you love
    • Eccentric programmer
    • Business::PayPal::NVP 1.02 released
    • Preston sleeping
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  • Jul 2008
    • New job
    • subtract - delete matching lines from text files
    • New blog - Scott's blarney
    • Mountain path in late summer
    • OS X: unmounting error 49153
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  • Jun 2008
    • Never saying goodbye
    • Fishing trip to Alaska
    • Farewell, Bluehost! I barely knew ye...
    • Dishonesty
    • Learning to be brave
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  • May 2008
    • On being labeled
    • New knowledge
    • Advice to a young woman
    • What I'm thinking
    • In which we survive a night camping without sleeping bags
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  • Apr 2008
    • Dark currents
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    • Er, (un)thanks!
    • Wholeness
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  • Mar 2008
    • Prerequisites
    • Writing and religion
    • On learning
    • The nature of intelligence
    • Natural gifts
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  • Feb 2008
    • Labeling and judgement
    • Why I hate personality typing
    • Thank you for that item
  • Jan 2008
    • Jackson Hole Soda Company Buckin' Rootbeer
    • Fond Farewell
    • The Work of a Critic
  • Dec 2007
    • Breakfast
    • Faygo Original Root Beer
    • On the age of passion
  • Oct 2007
    • Making 'find' go faster
    • The House in Frazier Hollow
    • Wendigo
  • Sep 2007
    • Teddy's Root Beer
    • My Root Beer Interview with Mikal Bellicove
  • Jul 2007
    • Hank's Gourmet Philadelphia Recipe Root Beer
  • Jun 2007
    • On marriage
  • May 2007
    • Sioux City Birch Beer
    • Virgil's Root Beer
    • Pictures of Lady Beetle Larvae and Aphids
  • Apr 2007
    • Reed's Raspberry Ginger Brew
    • Americana vs. Sprecher
    • Bundaberg Ginger Beer
    • Reed's Spiced Apple Brew
  • Feb 2007
    • Bulldog Root Beer
  • Nov 2006
    • Tommyknocker Root Beer
  • Oct 2006
    • SOCKS5 Proxy Server on FreeBSD
    • The Ginger People Ginger Beer
  • Sep 2006
    • Moab Brewery Root Beer
    • Americana Root Beer
    • Boylan's Root Beer
    • Boylan's Birch Beer
    • Buderim Ginger Authentic Australian Ginger Brew (Yank Style)
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  • Aug 2006
    • Confessions of a Wasp-Hating Coward
    • Schneier: Last Week's Terrorism Arrests
    • Password Strength: Complexity vs. Length
  • Jul 2006
    • On agency
    • Thomas Greene: Crashing the Wiretapper's Ball
  • May 2006
    • Mothers Day
  • Mar 2006
    • Barrel Brothers Root Beer
  • Jan 2006
    • osx2x - control a remote X server from OS X
  • Oct 2005
    • Briar's Root Beer
    • Jones Root Beer
    • Henry Weinhard's Root Beer
    • Howie's Root Beer
    • IBC Root Beer
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  • Sep 2005
    • Hiking to Pika Cirque on Mount Timpanogos
    • Root Beer Ratings
    • Schneier: Movie-Plot Threats
    • The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
    • Upgrading Milter-Greylist
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  • Jul 2005
    • Releasing a DHCP lease
  • May 2005
    • xset is good to know
    • Milter-Regex Problems
    • Setting up a Wireless Gateway
    • Brazilian Limeade
  • Mar 2005
    • Missing Devices from FreeBSD 5.2.1 to 5.3
    • Upgrading FreeBSD 5.x to 5.y
    • Remounting procfs
  • Aug 2004
    • Mounting a USB drive
  • Jul 2004
    • Duran-Duran in Concert: 1984
  • Sep 2003
    • Mille Bournes: near perfection

No one of consequence

Ok, it’s not cool anymore to love this movie, but I still do. And this is possibly my favorite scene:

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