Seconds of Arc

CXXX

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white;
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes there is more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, - yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go,-
My mistress when she walks, treads on the ground;
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

--William Shakespeare

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2010-05-24 11:20:16 Laptop XO
in which arc finally gets a nice green laptop

When purchasing my first (and, up until now, only) laptop, many years ago (although it seems like only yesterday), i had visions of swanning about in cafés, writing stuff, surfing the ne...
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2010-05-16 08:05:01 Altercation

I suppose it's about time I told the story of my little altercation at the beginning of the year, now the case has been sorted (it was sorted a month or two ago, actually, I just haven't gotten ...
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2010-02-28 09:38:08 Past and future fortnights
a run down of recent happenings

The last fortnight went like this: Monday Expected to work late because of deadline. Turned out the deadline was lies, all lies. Tuesday Prof. Kim d...
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2010-02-27 10:40:46 The Last Two Months
an update of sorts

The last two months or so have been somewhat... dunno. Intense, maybe, I'm tempted to say, but that suggests I was doing something like working 60 hour weeks trying to get a company off the gr...
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2009-07-20 04:21:34 B for Birthday

I'm in Christchurch at the moment. It's my niece's birthday today, and I was invited down to her birthday party yesterday. A pretty busy weekend has yielded a little time to do something other than...
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2009-05-18 12:03:41 A Day in the Life
arc starts his attempt at catching up on journaling

I'm badly behind in this journal, aren't I? It's not like I haven't been up to anything, either. Quite the reverse -- that's one reason why I haven't been keeping up with my posts. I'll t...
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2009-05-12 10:27:14 A fistfull of dollars for an hour or two of fun in Eli's bedroom

I turned up in Glover park, with the instructions memorized. I kept an eye out for the woman I was supposed to be meeting. Even though I had never seen her before, she wasn't difficult to pick...
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2009-02-25 09:04:15 Jonathan Crayford and 'the revolution is live'

I've mentioned Jonathan Crayford a couple of times before. He's a fantastic jazz pianist, used to play a free jazz set down at Happy every wednesday with a trio that also consisted of two oth...
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