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“What is my regret. It was cheese for me to get very good friend with one person. The people in the memory were four person. Me, Joyce, Tommy and one more girl. I want to talk with a girl at school, we did talk on the phone. but we just afric to talk at school or any place., because I learned my lesson for there. Don’t scare. Be brave to talk with someone in front you.” (Chen, Jeremy, January 8, 2002)
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Busy couple of days. On tuesday night, Bernie and I attended a “curator’s reception” at the California Academy of Sciences. I recently bought myself a membership to the museum, and one of the perks of the level that I signed up for is occasional swank events like this, with lots of free wine and snacks. It was like a science fair for grown-ups; each of the departments in the Academy had a representative at a little table, with some of their recent work or research laid out and presented. Lots of skeletons and skulls, things floating in jars, bugs on pins, rocks and minerals and fossils laid out with little labels, that sort of thing. One woman in particular was very excited about her trilobite collection. It was pretty fun – I like science. The other thing of note was that almost every single attendee was white, and over 45. Just saying.
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Okay, so maybe I was a little bit harsh in my last entry, ragging on the *shudder* bloggers. Cam had some decent reporting from SXSW today that made me think twice about it all. I still can’t stand the word “blog”, and its derivatives, but I do recognize the importance that the individual reporting from whereever has for the ‘net at large. So, keep writing. Just don’t take yourself so seriously, fer chrissake.
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I’d just like to make one thing perfectly clear here. This isn’t a “blog”. You have no idea how much I hate the term “weblog” – when I first heard it sometime back in 1999 or so, I was pretty sure that the people talking were confused, because they sure weren’t talking about the weblogs (web server logs) that I knew about. Oh, no, they took a perfectly good technical term and decided that it was okay to make it mean, “like, my links page that I, like, update every day and write a really, like, witty sentence about, and, like, all my friends put it in their blog too, and, like, link to me and stuff”.
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Well, so much for that writing regularly thing.
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