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Friday night haiku (1000 lines day 5/365)

Friday night haiku: just seventeen syllables scrawled on a coaster. I never said I was a purist!

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Fine layer of ash (1000 lines, day 6 of 365)

Fine layer of ash Red glowing mountains Summer’s funeral pyre Last year, the fires terrified me. Now I realize it’s just the way things are in Southern California.

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SoCal Winter (1000 lines, day 7 of 365)

SoCal Winter: Billowing mounds of hot tub foam, drifts of windblown sand. Apologies for gloating, but Detroit is having a huge blizzard right now. Me, a heatwave.

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Passing stranger is (1000 lines, day 7 of 365)

Passing stranger is suddenly fascinated by a blade of grass. It’s something I never understood about cities, and something I miss terribly about home.

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Observant poet (1000 lines, day 8 of 365)

Observant poet wears a new shirt, wears it twice, Takes off the price tag.

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Kali’s spot to sit (1000 lines, day 9 of 365)

Kali’s spot to sit is atop what I’m doing. A coincidence? Finally caught up to the real date!

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2008 in Cities

These are all the places I’ve stayed at least one night during 2008: Ann Arbor, MI Livonia, MI Los Angeles, CA Long Beach, CA Austin, TX Pentwater, MI Cambria, CA San Francisco, CA Sonoma, CA Pickford,...

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You Needy Bastard: WoW need vs. greed etiquette

Do I need an item? Did they verb the word greed? The Need vs. Greed treasure interface can be confusing to a new player who isn’t used to it. But it’s pretty simple once you get the hang of it. When...

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How I post things to the Internet

I submit the following diagram somewhat ironically, perhaps as an explanation as to why these pages are so bare. I’ve found myself a member of so many status, friendship, check-in and sharing-focused...

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There is no off-season: NFL.com’s move to YUI

Back in November I gave a talk at YUIConf about the NFL’s move from Prototype to YUI. Shamefully late, I present my slides from the event minus a certain logo. Slides that simply regurgitate an authors...

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