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So…what’s the overall verdict?

I see that Jean has linked from my old blog to this one. What do those of you who are visiting both (or have visited both) think of the new one? I still need to play with template a bit more to personalize it, but overall…what’s the verdict?

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Email woes…

So we’re going on 26 hours with no email on campus, and you can tell people seem disconnected. Profs can’t send out reminders of assignments, classmates can’t plan things or send articles back and forth…it’s a real pain in the ass. Hopefully it doesn’t go another 26 hours, but I’m not betting on it. Sounds like it was a pretty terrible hardware/software crash. For those who want to see the status of the email server:

The UNC ITS Service Monitor

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Random quotes from my day:

1. “You are capable of thumping the kitties on the head.”
2. “Bread…..and a print cartridge.”

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Random quotes from my day:

1. “You are capable of thumping the kitties on the head.”
2. “Bread…..and a print cartridge.”

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testing

Trying to figure out why there’s so much space between title and posts…it seems to only happen when I use HTML in a significant way. Very interesting.

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Just some quick shots from my weekend…The upper left pic is Barron, the co-creator of Raw Deal, who drove down from Connecticut for the tourney. The upper right is a shot of the crowd playing, and the lower right is a picture of the WWF Hardcore Belt that was the prize for the tournament on Saturday night.

The lower left pic deserves some special explanation….one of the many things that fans of a wrestling card game do is, well…some of them tend to make you remember that *fan* is short for *fanatic*. This is a wrestling move known variably as the Acid Drop or the Dudley Dog, and the picture is of Dan Lopretto and Rob Drexler executing said move. Don't ask what the outcome was.

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My Raw Deal Weekend….

Just some quick shots from my weekend…The upper left pic is Barron, the co-creator of Raw Deal, who drove down from Connecticut for the tourney. The upper right is a shot of the crowd playing, and the lower right is a picture of the WWF Hardcore Belt that was the prize for the tournament on Saturday night.

The lower left pic deserves some special explanation….one of the many things that fans of a wrestling card game do is, well…some of them tend to make you remember that *fan* is short for *fanatic*. This is a wrestling move known variably as the Acid Drop or the Dudley Dog, and the picture is of Dan Lopretto and Rob Drexler executing said move. Don’t ask what the outcome was.

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So I've been in

So I've been in Cerebral Hobbies for 15 hours now, running Raw Deal tourneys. Fun, but I'm freaking exhausted.

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Well…I've been intel

Well…I've been intellectually, if not technologically, scooped.

Check out this new art project in NY that's remarkably like the database idea I've been kicking around for a few weeks.

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uma

I just saw my favorite movie of the year thus far: Kill Bill. I'm not sure that it's the best movie of the year, but it may be the most well crafted. Tarantino once again shows that he can not only make violence look like the most beautiful thing in the world, but he can do so with pinache and verve. His choices for music, as always, are just perfect for any given scene. Uma Thurman gives an outstanding performance as The Bride, and unfortunately I think the subtlety of her work in this film will be vastly overshadowed by people commenting on the bloodshed. Plus, it has David Carradine in it.

For anyone who enjoys the aesthetic of violence at all, or likes the Tarantino aesthetic, this film is his return to greatness.