You are looking at posts that were written in the month of April in the year 2004.
Posted on April 30th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: indescribable.
The Sword of Omens stops obeying you… Thundercats Hi! if you want to hear a whole lot of us hitting just the right high notes, though, save next Saturday afternoon from 4:30-5:15 pm in Memorial Chapel…
Posted on April 29th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: indescribable.
jump your friend’s kid egg’s STD-infected bug, grow your breeding network! and check your poop color, honey. breedster — where it’s at.
Posted on April 29th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: indescribable.
…doesn’t mean they’re not coming to get you.
Once the rib cage was dry, I placed all the organs except the liver in the appropriate places inside it (again using Gray’s Anatomy as a guide. This is, by the way, the only use that Gray’s Anatomy ever sees in our household.)
Ahh, pumpkinfest. How we miss you.
Posted on April 28th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: indescribable.
yet all I can think of right now is death, st. pete, elder protocols, deep thought, puzzling, rubber bands statically snapping, and the qualia of insights experienced while playing basketball or pacing. what does this mean? so I haven’t written in a while.
Posted on April 14th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: indescribable.
The third form of happiness, which is meaning, is again knowing what your highest strengths are and deploying those in the service of something you believe is larger than you are. There’s no shortcut to that. That’s what life is about. There will likely be a pharmacology of pleasure, and there may be a pharmacology of positive emotion generally, but it’s unlikely there’ll be an interesting pharmacology of flow. And it’s impossible that there’ll be a pharmacology of meaning.
Posted on April 8th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: metrics.
This is what I’m talking about. Über das wesen der Information.
Unfortunately, given the size of that single page, the author is probably a crank.
Posted on April 8th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: poetic justice.
I love Brother Blue and was sorry to miss this event. If you hear about other events of his around town, especially ones including his wife, please let me know.
Posted on April 8th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: fly-by-wire.
…you know it, baby. iPods are eternal.
Posted on April 8th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: popular demand.
NSA Rice’s recent public statement to the 9/11 commission offers some information on updates to national style guides as regards terrorism and security.
1. Embargo, embargoes, “embargoed“: appropriate for documents
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL DELIVERY
THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2004
2. Titles: “NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR” appropriate for formal public use.
3. When referring to people and groups who attack civilized nations, “freedomhating” may be used in blanket statements to clarify “terrorist”.
Long before that day, radical, freedomhating terrorists declared war on America and on the civilized world.
4. Recently, we have joined war with terrorists, indefinitely. This particular war, unlike terrorism as a whole, has been going on for 20-30 years...
The terrorists were at war with us, but we were not yet at war with them. For more than 20 years, the terrorist threat gathered… And under President Bush’s leadership, we will remain at war until the terrorist threat to our Nation is ended.
5. …and is most closely related to the previous World Wars:
th, this country simply was not on a war footing.
Despite the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 and continued German harassment of American shipping, the United States did not enter the First World War until two years later. Despite Nazi Germany’s repeated violations of the Versailles Treaty and its string of provocations throughout the mid-1930s, the Western democracies did not take action until 1939. The U.S. Government did not act against the growing threat from Imperial Japan until the threat became all too evident at Pearl Harbor. And, tragically, for all the language of war spoken before September 11
6. There is no “e” in “al-Qaida“, a term which may be retroactively applied to all Saudi and Afghani terrorist groups discussed by the Administration (”At the beginning of the Administration…“) in the two years immediately preceding 9/11.
We wanted to ensure there was no respite in the fight against al-Qaida… It was the very first major national security policy directive of the Bush Administration -– … the elimination of al-Qaida.
7. When discussing people and groups that have taken the fall to save institutional face, take care to remain excessively polite. “Mismanaged by” –> “chaired by”, “weakest link” –> “nerve center”, etc.
For the essential crisis management task, we depended on the Counterterrorism Security Group chaired by Dick Clarke to be the interagency nerve center.
th, those were the right choices for America to make — the only choices that can ensure the safety of our Nation in the decades to come.
In the aftermath of September 11
Posted on April 4th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: %a la mod.
quite something, as ‘entertainment portals‘ go. Understated, efficient, and used by tends of thousands of people a day… I started noticing recently that all the projects that I would ever drop into an IRC channel to check out were hosted there. I once made a long-term project (thanks, pg) out of finding every online community with more than ten thousand members… this qualifies as another one.