livejournal archives
The best place to go if you're looking for frequent updates is my livejournal. Unfortunately, livejournal's archiving capabilities are quite limited: while the memories page is useful, I found that it grew difficult to navigate as the number of entries in my journal approached one thousand. Livejournal's calendar function works well, but is similarly unwieldy, particularly since my weblog now spans five different calendar years.

I've created these using these archives pages with movable type and will be using them not as a mirror of my livejournal, but as a place to store easily-browsable backups of selected public posts. Each entry will include a link to the original post and any comments on that post. However, I'll keep the movable type comment function enabled, because there really isn't any reason not to, and because livejournal's comment feature isn't particularly user-friendly for non-livejournalers.

Really, though, none of this is that complicated. I just wanted to be able to find my old stuff.


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with thanks to bohunk for pointing me to the original 05/01/04
HOUSE BILL NO. 751 Offered January 14, 2004 Prefiled January 14, 2004 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 2 of Title 20 a section numbered 20-12.1, relating to the Affirmation of Marriage Act for...
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on melting. 04/28/04
Today is a lovely day. Yesterday and the day before were hot, with highs over 100 degrees. Now, before you chime in with comments about how much worse you have it wherever you live, I would like to state for...
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Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing. 04/25/04
There is a house along one of the routes Jeff and use to walk the dogs; we call it the "cat house." That's because there are always multiple cats in the front yard. We've made a habit of counting them...
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it's as real as my skull and it does exist. 04/20/04
Getting older happens gradually. In fact, as I once told the owner of a convenience store that was about a block away from the house where I lived at the time, "I was old enough to buy cigarettes two months...
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zoolander was a documentary. 04/19/04
Today's issue of "Los Angeles Times Magazine" is the "Men's Fashion Issue." "The Dashing Man," advertises the cover. "Suave. Sophisticated. Self-Assured." Well, then! Let's have a peek, shall we? Since you won't be able to read the tiny text in...
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billy bob at ballys. 04/16/04
There's a move in step aerobics called a "freeway." It involves turning as you go over the top of the step, such that if you start out facing the front of the room, you end up on the opposite side...
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on creepy marsupials. 04/15/04
My dog has become a vicious killer of opossums. Ivy: Vicious Killer of Opossums Napa: Enthusiastic Sidekick I bear no great love for opossums. In fact, they are one of my least favorite animals. If you were to ask me,...
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beams are gonna blind me. 04/15/04
Am I the only one who is bothered by the widespread use of the word "troop" to refer to individuals? If a "troop" has become just one person, then what's an actual troop? A gaggle? A throng? A flock?...
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mistuh atkins, he dead. 04/14/04
"This beer has one third the calories? Good. That means I can have three." - Redd Foxx, "Sanford and Son" It occurs to me that I haven't publicly made it clear just how asinine I find the low-carb craze that...
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i guess that's why they call it an update. 04/12/04
First things first: many thanks to sun_set_bravely and mabellongettifor the postcards and to mloconno for the care package! Michelle, the Rice Krispie treats were excellent, and you make a mean CD. It's quite possible that you and I are the...
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actual conversations - quentin tarantino edition 03/20/04
MY BROTHER BRET, CALLING FROM KOREA, WHERE HE LIVES: "I'm dating this girl from Colombia." SHASTA: "What's her name?" BRET: "Marcela." SHASTA: "Describe what Marcela Wallace looks like." BRET: "What?" SHASTA: "Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again! I dare you--I...
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I'm making record time on this fog walk! 03/19/04
Today, as I was leaving the acupuncture studio, I got a very strange look from a man I was quite sure I hadn't seen before. I was a little perplexed, since to my knowledge, I looked pretty ordinary. I might...
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in which i become a pincushion. 03/16/04
I got acupuncture for the first time today. I had considered getting it before, but my pain always seemed to subside just as I was on the verge of making an appointment, so I never went. However, I seriously tweaked...
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actual conversations - mattel edition 03/04/04
After a brief discussion about the Ken doll's nipples... SHASTA: "You know Barbie and Ken broke up, right?" JEFF: "What?" SHASTA: "Yeah, Barbie and Ken broke up. Mattel announced that it was 'time for them to move on,' or something...
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yank your doodle. dandy! 03/02/04
D-City of Buena Park, Ban Sale of Fireworks Vote Count Percentage Yes 1567 49.6% No 1593 50.4% I really, really hope a Buena Park precinct or two has yet to be counted, because I was eagerly looking forward to not...
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city love, part II: "take that one thing towards the other thing." 02/26/04
You're not really supposed to love Los Angeles. Or if you do, you're supposed to do it ironically: you can love L.A., but only in a Randy Newman kind of way. Part of the problem is that nobody really knows...
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with thanks to ravengirl 02/25/04

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vare my kai 02/23/04
It was our seventh anniversary yesterday, so we celebrated by going to the OC fairgrounds to see the Cirque du Soleil Varekai show, which was absolutely gorgeous. These performers do things with their bodies that really shouldn't be possible. I...
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