Monthly Archives: October 2008

I’m a legal alien

31st
Oct. × ’08
By dominic

Image by Jose P Isern Comas via Flickr That was a significantly simpler process than I expected. The plan was to get up at 0600, deal with Oliver, make sure everything was in order so the packers could work without supervision for the day and get to the US embassy by 0745. A mixture of [...]

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30th
Oct. × ’08
By dominic

I have a couple of these around the place. They also support every language ever invented, including ones not invented yet! erik: This what I take to meetings. It includes a free “stylus” that doubles as an ink despensing input device.

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And she does it again

30th
Oct. × ’08
By dominic

Me: Mirto, let me tell you about my super awesome idea for a novel that I’m going to write for NaNoWriMo that is both super and awesome! Mirto: Don’t tell me. I don’t want to know. Me: But… But… Mirto: If you tell me about it, you won’t be as excited about it, and then [...]

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When the mover comes around

30th
Oct. × ’08
By dominic

Today is the day that the last two weeks have built up to. The moving company is in and they’re packing up the house. They’ll finish packing today and then load everything into a container tomorrow, which means one night surrounded by boxes and then life in an empty house apart from a couple of [...]

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30th
Oct. × ’08
By dominic

and above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Roald Dahl (via betterlookalive)

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29th
Oct. × ’08
By dominic

Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime I’ve adored this video since I first saw it on MTV. It was my first exposure to David Byrne and I’ve had a soft spot for his music since.

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What I need right now, is another project

28th
Oct. × ’08
By dominic

I often have many things on the go. Most of the projects have the same life-cycle: I start incredibly enthusiastic, solve the main ‘problem’ involved in the project, and then get bored before completing it. I’ve tried recently to break this cycle and I keep telling myself that the reason I’m not finishing the One [...]

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27th
Oct. × ’08
By dominic

Science is one cold-hearted bitch with a fourteen inch strap-on Vince Masuka Dexter season 3, episode “Turning Biminese”

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It’s really gone and begun now

27th
Oct. × ’08
By dominic

Eight days to go until we fly out of here and into SFO. Today is the day things really kicked into gear. We get three opportunities to get our stuff from here to there: The luggage we carry, an air shipment with volume and weight limits, and a sea shipment with volume limits. They arrive, [...]

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27th
Oct. × ’08
By dominic

8 days Sunset on the Golden Gate Bridge by Wiggum3

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