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Entries from August 2004

Convention Blogging

August 30th, 2004 · Comments Off on Convention Blogging

Matt Welch, Tim Blair, and I are reporting from the RNC over at the Reason Convention Blog.

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Like a Rock (or Paper or Scissors)

August 29th, 2004 · Comments Off on Like a Rock (or Paper or Scissors)

While I’m up here wasting my time on a political convention, my DC compatriots are getting down to business at the national Rock Paper Scissors Tournament.

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Daventry Nostalgia

August 28th, 2004 · Comments Off on Daventry Nostalgia

I still remember the first time I played a King’s Quest game. I must’ve been 8 or 9, because I think King’s Quest III was already out, and distinctly remember being excited for the release of Kings Quest IV soon thereafter. My family had only recently gotten a computer—a beige, Volvoesque 286 running MS-DOS that […]

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Network City

August 28th, 2004 · Comments Off on Network City

Smoking ban notwithstanding, one of the many decisive advantages Manhattan still holds over DC is that everywhere I’ve been so far (various parts of Brooklyn and the East Village), there are about 8 WiFi networks accessible from any given location, at least a couple of which are open. I’m sitting outside at one of my […]

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Pre-Convention Thoughts

August 27th, 2004 · Comments Off on Pre-Convention Thoughts

I’ve been buying books of essays lately, on the theory that the best way to improve one’s writing is to read the best stuff in the genre you’re working in. Not–as some might imagine–because it gives you something to aspire to. There are limits to even my presumptuousness, and it’s transparent enough to me that […]

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Blegging and Horny Patriarchs

August 24th, 2004 · Comments Off on Blegging and Horny Patriarchs

NR’s Peter Robinson is delighted that his bleg for information about why Michelangelo sculpted a Moses with horns growing from his head garnered replies from 225 people. He gushes: Readers of this happy Corner, youâ??ve done it, providing yours truly with the first really satisfying explanation for the horns on Moses that Iâ??ve ever encounteredâ??while […]

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New at Reason

August 24th, 2004 · Comments Off on New at Reason

A little eulogy for the Phish scene: “Joy in Mudville”

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Radio Sanchez

August 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off on Radio Sanchez

I’m apparently mentioned on NPR’s All Things Considered today. Not, alas, for anything I’ve written (yet) but for my barhopping: it’s a piece by reporter Ben Gilbert about the social networking software Dodgeball.

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Quote of the Day

August 20th, 2004 · Comments Off on Quote of the Day

Best exchange on the upcoming New Republic/Weekly Standard paintball game (between TNR and Slate staffers who shall remain nameless): A: Iâ??m not sure we need more than a couple people. I expect the Standard folks will throw down their paintball guns and regard us as liberators. B: Iâ??m surprised by all this confidence on the […]

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The Road from Coventry

August 16th, 2004 · Comments Off on The Road from Coventry

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