Thursday, July 26 2001

There's a small-ish park near where I live.

It's like the hundreds of other small parks in the city; a few thousand square feet of grass with trees, benches and a couple playsets for children resting in sand. Sometimes, a man and a woman come to the park with their bunny. The bunny is brown, has big floppy ears and wears a harness with about fifteen feet of leash. It's pretty great to watch the man and the bunny chase each other around the playset.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold : XML Protocols, XML-RPC and SOAP

"For most of this book, my examples are going to focus on XML protocols. These are XML applications used for machine-to-machine exchange of information exchange across the Internet over HTTP. In this chapter I'll show you how such documents move from one machine to another... However, since this is not a book about network programming, I'm going to be careful to keep all the details of network transport separate from the generation and processing of XML documents. When you work with an XML document, you don't care whether it came from a file, a network socket, a string, or something else."

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Cary Tennis : "A drunk hides nothing from another drunk. So when I look at Bush,

I don't see a conservative Republican, a flirter with the Christian right, a Texas oilman, a son of political royalty. I see a guy like me who never wants to quit, who has an infinite thirst and an infinite appetite for whatever you've got and who, if he could, would drink up the whole room and then tear it apart looking for more. I see a guy barely containing a murderous contempt for anyone who doesn't drink like he does; I see a guy who has to pause when answering questions not because there's nothing in his head but because there's too much in his head and most of it is vile and the rest is obscene; no doubt the first thing that pops into his head when asked a question at a press conference is "You have the face of a barnyard animal" or "I'd like to fuck you silly." That apparent blankness, as though his brain is having a rolling blackout, is actually a sign that he's sorting, looking for an answer that's both true and bland, something that won't set off any alarms, something that will satisfy his need to tell the truth yet not give in to the grandiose and contemptuous impulses so familiar to alcoholics far and wide." Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Eileen Myles reports that : In the way that Bill Clinton was our first black president, Spielberg has given us our first butch lesbian hero. Truly, nothing is what it seems anymore.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is exhort

| source : web1913 | Exhort \Ex*hort"\, v. i. To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds. With many other words did he testify and exhort. --Acts ii. 40. | source : web1913 | Exhort \Ex*hort"\, n. Exhortation. [Obs.] --Pope. | source : web1913 | Exhort \Ex*hort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exhorted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Exhorting}.] [L. exhortari; ex out + hortari to incite, encourage; cf. F. exhorter. See {Hortative}.] To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution. Examples gross as earth exhort me. --Shak. Let me exhort you to take care of yourself. --J. D. Forbes. | source : wn | exhort v 1: urge on or encourage esp. by shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers" [syn: {cheer}, {inspire}, {urge}, {barrack}, {urge on}, {pep up}] 2: force or impel in an indicated direction; "I urged him to finish his studies" [syn: {urge}, {urge on}, {press}] | source : devils | EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

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