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I hereby certify that it is entirely impossible to translate a California Birth Certificate. Informant? Attendant? Registrar? Certifier? Birth Recorder? What? It would also help if the people who filled out those forms put the data into the field that the fields are for, and not some other random data. E.g. field name: License number (of the attenting physician). Field content: Resident. Strange alphanumeric code, don’t you think so?
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I have a theory for my pain in the butt. http://openpiriformis.org/wiki/User:J12t/History#A_Theory.3F
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What’s that wet stuff falling from the sky all of a sudden? #california #drought
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Where’s today’s edgy political writing?
just finished Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, the grand daddy of countless funny movies, but also a brilliant anti-slavery polemic, and anti-many-other-things besides. Has that kind of writing all but disappeared? Or am I just not plugged into the right places? There sure is plenty of wrong in the world that could use some brilliant polemicicm …
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watering – Moisture sensors in connection with drip irrigation – Gardening & Landscaping Stack Exchange
Today’s great idea: open-source seeds aka the anti-Monsanto. By Adam Starrh in http://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/20674/moisture-sensors-in-connection-with-drip-irrigation/21789?noredirect=1#comment25219_21789
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Vodafone ‘hacked journalist’s phone to trace whistleblowers’ | The Australian
Not just gov’ts hacking into cell phone accounts. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/vodafone-hacked-journalists-phone-to-trace-whistleblowers/story-fn9ymmvo-1227523487683
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On my MacBook, currently running a bunch of Mac apps, plus two VirtualBox Arch Linux instances, plus an additional Linux container running @uboslinux.
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For the first time in a long time, somebody called me “Doctor” today. (He was Chinese, perhaps the Chinese have a similar attitude to titles as the Germans?) I’m afraid there was some awkward silence after that, because I had forgotten how to respond. The common looking-oh-ever-so-slightly-superior kind of thing is not something I know how to do, not do I have any desire to learn it. I always thought “Johannes” is good enough as a way of addressing me, and you get to completely screw up the pronounciation too, it’s okay. Can we leave it at that?
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Do I really want to know what a “Principal Orchestration Engineer” might be? The guy plugging in all the musical instruments?