All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

today, i cleaned up house quite a bit in order to find the space to put in my weight bench and to give me more room to work out. now the bench is setup, and i'm ready to go with that.

Cost of Terry Nichols' Trial. The citizens of Oklahoma shelled out more than $5.2 million to try and kill Terry Nichols: The final costs of Terry Nichols' state case will exceed $5.2 million. More than $3.75 million has already been paid on his defense since… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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i'm not sure representing it in monetary terms does this justice. we are talking more about a human life and several human lives, reducing it to monetary comparisons seems banal.

Lawyers vs. Computer Scientists. James Grimmelmann has an interesting pointer to an article purporting to describe the difference between how computer scientists and lawyers think. The core of the article is that legal data has “color”, or provenance. It’s a fun essay, but as someone who often straddles this divide, I think it’s missing something important. But darned if I can put my finger on what it is. Maybe that law is often about shades of gray, when computer logic is binary?… [Discourse.net]

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i think the main difference is the will of computer science to rebuild the whole from scratch rebuilding ad infinitum. 'color' i would argue is the same for both.

maybe this is what the president needs, then once he can remember basic facts, we can move on to ethics boot camp.

my starting point:
226lb

basic shape:
42 inch butt
11 3/4 left forearm
12 right forearem
15 inch left bicep
15 1/2 right bicep
16.5 inch neck
50 1/2 shoulders
47 stomach
26 left thigh
26 right thigh
16 left calf
16.5 right calf

it will be a long road, but i can do lose this.

my goal is to lose the guts, to lose 25-35lb by december, and finally to be in shape, which i'm defining as 70 pushups, 70 situps, and running 2 miles.

Monty Python's Fellowship of the Ring. Monty Python’s Fellowship of the Ring. Frodo: Don’t disturb this foul pool! Boromir: Sorry, I thought I saw something moving out there… Pippin: I’ve got… [Outside the Beltway]

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hehehe funny.

How Liberty was lost on the internet [CitizenLab]

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this is an interesting experiment…. but it doesn't address user agreements… you sign your liberty away alot of the time…

Another Great Internet Thing: Amtrak Discount Codes. I’m in DC at the moment, and tomorow I head off to a wedding in New Haven. I’m going by train and my fare will be 20% less than it might have been thanks to one of these handy Amtrak discount codes. No, it’s not just a toy: this Internet thing is useful…. [Discourse.net]

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amtrack codes are good.. i'm thinking about doing an amtrack vacation sometime in the next year….

Elsewhere: Zombie Machines, Port Blocking, Confusion And Large Bills. With the incredible rise of zombie machines that spew spam messages constantly, it looks like different ISPs continue to take very different approaches to dealing with th… [SecurityFocus News]

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it is very clear… block ports, limit traffic, and do content monitoring of outgoing content for smtp headers.

J-Son in the Newz!. I was sitting under a tree on campus yesterday reading Now Magazine and nearly chocked on my tea when I read THIS ARTICLE because it liberally quotes JASON. (tee hee!) By Julia (mailto:julia@dicum.com). [Flailing in the Surf!]

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about blogs nonetheless, whereas i argue that it is style and form that dictates whether your blog is popular or peripheral…..