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I was stared at by a plumber today. He stared while I drove in the alley. He stared while I backed my car into my parking spot outside my office building. He stared while I walked to the gate. And the only thing he said was, "I am putting a toilet in today."

It was odd, but not quite as odd as the painter who left me a note in my old apartment back in Boston. "Changing the color can change how the molecules make our future."
--Dylan
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2003.04.24
Family Anecdote of the Moment
One winter day my mom was driving by then invalid and half blind dad, when they hit a slippery patch and the car wheeled around, eventually almost ramming a wall into the passenger seat...as they where outof control, my mom heard by dad go "oshitoshitoshitoshit" and afterward she was curious:
"Did you just feel the car going out of control, or where you able to see it?"
"Betty, I'm blind, not stupid..."
Just wanted to get that written down, but didn't feel like retroactively editing yesterday's entry. Thanks for all the warm feedback on that.

Funny of the Moment
Hey, it's your old friend Darkness. Dude, give me a call
Article of the Moment
I linked to a higher level Salon piece a week ago, but The Chronicle of Higher Education had a much more detailed and interesting piece about The Mathematics of Marriage. (Enjoyably titled "Every Unhappy Family Has Its Own Bilinear Influence Function") You have to throw in a constant for how happy or unhappy a person is on his or her own (the "uninfluenced steady state"), and then study how they interact with each other in a conversation. Amazing stuff!