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California can be a pretty wacky place sometimes. It’s a pretty heavily polarized state politically, garnering it a reputation (depending on who you ask) of extreme conservatism and of radical liberalism. It’s part of what makes it interesting to live here, and exciting to be a part of

According to reports by a member of the epitasis-list [http://www.paroxysm.com/] , the Xando coffee bar has closed. Now most of us here on the West Coast probably think that the problems of two little coffedrinkers in this crazy world don’t amount to a hill of beans, but…

Been hearing all about the Year 2000 bug these days. In a little over a year civilization as we know it will collapse into utter chaos. Or, depending on who you ask, nothing at all will happen and nobody needs to worry about a thing because it’s all taken

Last night I ran a POV-Ray benchmark available at Haveland-Robinson Associates’ site [http://www.haveland.com/povbench/index.htm] thinking I was all hot stuff after getting this 300mHz K-6 machine. My time was 2 minutes 58 seconds. I went to look at the comparison to other peoples’ results and

Yes, yes, yes… Smoking is a terrible, disgusting, stinky habit. I know. As a former pack-a-day Camel smoker, I’m the last one you need to tell. Yet somehow, I ended up in the following picture: How did this happen? Well, I don’t recommend this to other nicotine addicts,

For background, please read the article from news.com [https://web.archive.org/web/19990221084746/http://www.news.com:80/News/Item/0,4,8695,00.html] . I don’t know why I care much about the fate of Apple, but I’ve been trying to follow this story along,

The news can be such a pit of despair. Last night I heard the headline on TV, something to the effect of «Convicted rapist kills Florida woman… should he have been walking the streets a free man?» and I prepared myself for what I expected to be a typical reactionary