everyday life was right

by jebni on April 30, 2006

Compensation for my dodgy Magneto Was Right t-shirt getting (predictably) kicked off Cafepress: someone put me into Wikipedia, in an entry called (get this) “Everyday Life in the Marvel Universe“. Thanks, 205.188.117.12! [ tags: wikipedia, magneto, comics, x-men, marvel, pop-culture ]

the whorehouse, redux: escaping “subjective destitution”

by jebni on April 30, 2006

I’ve been meaning for a while to revisit Walter Benjamin’s manly refusal to be “drained by the whore called ‘Once upon a time’ in historicism’s bordello,” but I was too confused. But recent comments on “subjective destitution” versus “desubjectification” in (…)

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white noise

by jebni on April 29, 2006

Badly shielded cabling is the spookiest thing ever. One of the places where I work has a lot of digital video stuff going on, all the time. So when video from one computer ends up playing on the LCD display (…)

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value

by jebni on April 21, 2006

And when this building is on fire These flames can’t burn any higher I turn sideways to the sun And in a moment I am gone That’s the price of love (that’s the price of love) Can you feel it (…)

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insanity: goldbergian backups and the spectre of (data) loss

by jebni on April 17, 2006

While contemplating if it’s my fate to lose my mind, I just bought a Strongspace account to do online backups of my files when I’m in Hong Kong. My most important data is now mirrored in six different spots: on (…)

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tracer

by jebni on April 6, 2006

A new venture: Someone with a pen or pencil can be a tracer. So can a radioactive substance introduced into the body to make certain processes visible for diagnosis. And a bullet that acts like a flare. Stay tuned. [ (…)

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