I installed the folding@home client the other day.
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Category: obscure pursuits
home-brew user agents
For a really performance intensive application, you’ll probably need to get down and dirty with C or C++, but if you can throw enough iron at the problem to keep your hands out of that tarpit, python, perl, java, and friends become serious contenders.
inessential.com: User Agents All Time
obidos-bot (just looking for books.)
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haiku
unforeseen attacks
seem obvious in hindsight
does that ease the pain?
topical haiku for prizes
Guardian Unlimited Books | Games | Books games haiku
haiku mastery
could be the key to winning
some Penguin Classics
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an @home project I like
Apple – Science & Technology – Stanford University
Distributed protein folding research
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one swallow may not make a summer
Google Search: hummingbird anna’s rufous
but one hummingbird is enough to convince me it’s springtime. I assume it’s a rufous hummingbird since it’s always the second week of May when we see them: Anna’s hummingbirds range up into Alaska and could overwinter here, but I never see any after September or so.
learning from ebay
I never really looked at ebay before I found myself unemploy[ed|able]. I thought it was for collectors, and that’s not me. More of an accumulator (collecting implies purpose).
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flight school for the budget-challenged
Who doesn’t like paper airplanes, especially ones that fly really well?
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media format obsolescence
Time to move some old content to new media
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retail therapy (or, the junkman cometh)
REPC – used,recycled,computers,peripherals,surplus,hardware,software
Had to hunt up some SCSI cables today.
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