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Dreams

8:45am CDT Thursday 19 October 2000

(these are fleeting dream memories)

A kangaroo was dead outside our house. It was perfectly intact as if it were a stuffed kangaroo that had simply fallen flat onto its back. I called the Agency that handled cleanup of dead animals and they were surprised to hear of a kangaroo.

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Wende said something about our floor squeaking more when we walked on it.

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I was back in college and needed to do math homework. Maggie and I and a couple of others lived in an apartment in the dorms. I had the sense I had forgotten about my math homework, but it wasn't too late to catch up. I was inspired to begin work on it.

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bryn

7pm Thursday 19 October 2000

This is from a funny/memorable AIM chat I had with Bryn:

Bryn: Have you ever played cricket?
Rob: I've read about it in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Bryn: The cricket season just started here, its probably the weirdest game ever...
Rob: are you going to learn all the rules?
Rob: Then you can teach it to us at a rally
Bryn: well, thast the thing, there are thousands of rules, adn on top of that, there are various forms of cricket...
Rob: "This is the game of Cricket, which is neither silent, nor does it involve a football"
Bryn: then there are day tests (one day match), and three day tesh matches, so it would be quite odd, but i am determined to learn how to play
Bryn: the scoring is the most insane part..
Bryn: its so boring to watch (because it drags on and on) that i can't find anyone who goes to the games to go with
Rob: Like what?
Rob: Then why do people watch it or play it at all?
Bryn: like, someone bowls the ball, you hit it with a cricket bat to make sure it doesn't break the wicket (a piece of wood behind the batter) and then you run about 50 meters to another wicket and stop.
Bryn: you do this until someone catches a ball you've hit or the batter hits the wicket. then you're out
Rob: "break the wicket" means hit it and break it or cross its boundary?
Bryn: hit it and break it
Bryn: i actually haev no idea why people play it at all, but i hear its fun to play with frozen dead frogs.
Rob: NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rob: You're kidding!
Bryn: See, its kidn of like shooting kangaroos, which is also fun for people to do here...
Rob: They can't shoot kangaroos!!! There a national treasure to us yanks!
Bryn: its because there are so many. They imported these frogs to kill of these beatles, then when the beatles were dead, the frogs had no predators, so they overpopulated, and now there are thousands.
Rob: Oh my gosh, so The Simpsons was kinda right!
Rob: I misspelled "they're" in my haste!
Bryn: ...and kangaroos are annoying and they eat all the crops and there are like zillions of them so people shoot them weekly and run over them with cars, and thats "cool".
Rob: Oh my gosh!
Rob: I'm so distressed!
Bryn: I don't really have a thought for or against it. i am partial to the kangaroos because they are cute and furry, but i am partial to the farmers because OZ doesn't import meat or vegetables, so it doesn't need Roo's eatign everything.
Rob: Roos!!!
Rob: hahaha

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zzzzz

2:09am CDT Friday 20 October 2000

I just got home from work. I have logged 46 hours there so far this week. I'm super impressed with the coolness of this project. Not only is the text of the questions stored in a dataset, but the format in which the questions should be displayed is stored along with them. This is allowing a super cool thing: Instead of having 8 different programs for an 8 page survey, there's just 1 program for an n page survey.

Nice. We show it to our clients "tomorrow" afternoon.

This weekend is a play play play play weekend. :-)

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