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Am I the only one who checks his own website to see if he’s posted yet?
The largest versions of the photos will be offline due to Maxtor’s inability to produce high-temperature-power-failure-resistant drives.
-mgmt
Under protest I removed several pictures from the Winona set. See if you can find her anyway.
In other news, I want to bring the term “deservative” into common use. Deservative: Noun. Someone who thinks they deserve all the benefits of living in the States, without having to pay for any of them. Deservative.
“The pursuit of happiness may even help to explain the surge of anti-Americanism. Many people dislike America because of its failure to live up to its stated ideals. But others dislike it precisely because it is doing exactly what Jefferson intended. For some Europeans, the pursuit of happiness in the form of monster cars and mansions is objectionable on every possible ground, from aesthetic to ecological. You cannot pursue happiness with such conspicuous enthusiasm without making quite a lot of people around the world rather unhappy.” From the Economist print edition, July 1st 2006. (apologies for use without permission).
And some people still believe that this country can mend, live up to its ideals, and allow for the conspicuous, enthusiastic pursuit of happiness–without monster cars, mansions, or making so many other people in the world unhappy.
I can’t begin explain it to people who have not seen the series, but believe me when I say this: Damn. I have only felt so detached and alien on this planet once before, when I was 10. I wandered around my apartment last night, attempting to remind myself what the actual world was like.
As danger would say, “that’s some good @#%^$ televison”. Speaking of whom…
After a year of absence, my beloved sister returns to the cities tomorrow–and eveybody lives, just this once.
“An infuriating amount of action for the plot it contained” -a&e
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