Reuben

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Name: Reuben Gann
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. An illuminating trip to the Microsoft store — 12/29/2013
  2. Netflix streaming continues to founder as dozens of prominent movies are taken down — 12/28/2013
  3. Saints Row IV is the most fun I've had playing a game — 11/19/2013
  4. Statisticians need to see how experimental science really works, then shut up about it — 11/13/2013
  5. Surface Pro 2: first impressions — 10/24/2013

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Oct 23 2004

Fuck Linux

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Computing

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We have a "media center" computer that connects to our TV. It cost about 350 bucks, and we jacked the tv-out of the nvidia card to the tv. Wonderful. We first installed MCE, which worked ok, but we thought we could get more flexibility out of a linux installation with MythTV or some other suitable …

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Sep 25 2004

Sublime Dissatisfaction: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure and David Lynch's Blue Velvet

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Film

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With popularity comes banality, or perhaps the reverse is true. Film, since its inception (commencing basically as soon as Edison lost his patent stranglehold over it) has been a burgeoning art form, beginning with Griffiths, Lang, Milestone, up through the likes of Fellini and Hitchcock, and into recent times. While there is no shortage of …

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Sep 14 2004

Smoky Fog

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General

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We live in a nation of laws. Anti-piracy legislation, restrictions on what food can be sold, what substances you can put in your body, how you must build your house (and whom you have to ask permission of to do so), where you can smoke, how old you have to be to drink,...well, the list …

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Sep 04 2004

Jailbreak!

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Our Home

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The aforementioned cat spy who made it into the house escaped. When we went out the next morning he had somehow managed to get out of the cat carrier, then moved several objects obscuring a hole in the wall of the garage, escaping to freedom. This James Bond of cats, therefore, does not appear on …

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Sep 04 2004

The house...infiltrated!

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Our Home

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The war on the colony of cats escalated today. At about 3:45 am I got up to get a drink of water and noticed that the screen door was rather ajar. I of course blamed our turncoat kittens, and locking the door, went off to bed. A few minutes later I heard the noise of …

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