posts brought to you by the category “education”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.
Joey deVilla : “You know you want to see me in a penguin suit sport humping this man.”
Elloitte Rusty Harold : Effective XML
Effective XML is a guideline of best practices for using XML. It focuses on using and developing XML applications, with a particular emphasis on aspects of XML that are often misunderstood or misapplied.
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I feel an upgrade to Net::Google coming on...
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So, I started writing something about Mark's "How I Learned to Love Being Loosey Goosey Even Though I'm a Python-weenie" RSS article earlier this morning
but stopped because, frankly, who cares?
But then I saw Mark waxing poetic about how
[I]t takes balls to write an article for XML.com demonstrating how to parse an XML-based format without an XML parser.So here goes: I sped-read (speed-readed?) the article last night because I am already pretty familiar with the state of non-validating RSS feeds, tools like SGMLParser (you can probably parse RSS with HTML::Parser, but I've never tried) and the need to actually get something done in the face of all those people who don't give a rat's ass about The Right Way to do things. What I didn't notice was the bit about not using an XML parser. Now again, I think I understand where Mark is coming from and, if I do, I agree in principle with what he's trying to do. But it just seems so half-assed to go to all the trouble of parsing poorly formed XML, treat it like XML and then not actually return the data as XML. It is, I grant you, something of a pendantic argument. There's nothing to prevent me, or someone else, from adding hooks to Mark's rssparser code to define an
as_xml
method or add the hooks that would generate SAX events which, to my
thinking, would be the most useful thing because then you can magically
just assume it's XML again, like it's supposed to be. I suppose my
problem is one about what seems like a lazy design and a lazy
interface. I can see the need for something like this; ask any Perl
programmer who has to wrap all their calls to XML::Parser in
eval
blocks because it adheres to the XML spec and actually
die
s when it encounters a problem. It just seems so...inelegant. Your
mileage may vary.
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Dispatches on an amazing project to set computers free and see what happens
real audioCyberspace comes to the last place on earth you'd expect to find it. In the slums of New Delhi, computers bolted into holes in the wall enable children to teach themselves.
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Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood 1.1 [X]HTML examples
Me : XML::Filter::YahooGroups.pm 0.1
"SAX2 filter for adding message bodies to Yahoo
Groups RSS listings. The body of the message is added using the Dublin
Core <dc:content> element." see also :
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That picture of the escalator could be from any metro station in the city.
But whenever I see those little pointy bits
that were installed on the dividers between the escalators going up and
going down, I think of a time when they weren't there. Actually, I
think they've always been there for as long as I've been in Montreal,
but there was a time when they were staggered : a pair on the outside,
a pair in the center and so on. Their placement allowed you just enough
time to spread your feet and lift yout butt as you picked up speed,
finally reaching that last two feet of leveling off before there was
nothing underneath your except gravity.
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Ben Brown : Content-type: poetry/brilliant
"I took my huge spam file and ran it through
Dadadodo and immediately became enlightened. ... I spent hours, smoking
cigarettes in bed with my laptop, who had just then discovered her poesy,
letting her read poems she generated out in her sweet, robotic voice."
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brian d foy : MacOSX::iTunes.pm
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : smackdown
Said when someone is attempting to pick up someone else.
ex. Look at Sean laying the smackdown on Sally.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : ebullient
Ebullient \E*bul"lient\, a. [L. ebulliens, -entis, p. pr. of ebullire to boil up, bubble up; e out, from + bullire to boil. See 1st {Boil}.] Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. ``Ebullient with subtlety.'' --De Quincey. The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. --Carlyle. web1913
ebullient adj : joyously unrestrained [syn: {exuberant}, {high-spirited}] wn
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Boston Globe : Too Many Memories
5-2, baby! 5-2!
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David Vaught : "The whole coffee thing is a lot more negative
It's like the difference between a mountain
stream running over rocks and a stagnant pond. Coke is much more lively
— it's alive, it's cold, it's full of bubbles. You don't have to
worry about whether it's too hot, you don't have to read your paper while
you wait for it to cool. You just grab it and open it and go."
It would appear as though all that Coke has
done to his brain what a glass of the stuff will do a penny left to soak
in it overnight but, hey, give the man some points for poetry...
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Me : An interesting project would be to write a MT object driver to read and write wblgml....
Tyler Brule launches lifestyle*porn airlines.
Meanwhile, in a fit of branding virtuoso,
witness the
google
entry
for Wink Media, Mr. Brule's agence de
relookage
. Next, marvel at their daring and cutting-edge approach to
disabled cookies
. Fucking genius, I tell you! Fucking genius!
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Dan Gillmor : "My readers know more than I do;
That is not a threat, but rather an opportunity;
We can use this together to create something ... educating all of us"
No shit, Sherlock? Meanwhile, Dale Peskin
posits
that :
Our stories will take us beyond convergence to emergence. There, news becomes the product of a universally distributed intelligence that develops from an interconnected society enabled by interactive media. It occurs in real time, self-regulating, constantly enhanced. The connections enabled by media lead to mutual recognition and enrichment of individuals, rather than a cult of communities and institutions.You know, it is refreshing to see such enthuastic exercises in hyperbole, crafted to a true artform during the mid-90s, make a comeback but it's just candy. So far, the analogies have been so piss-poor and the degree of stating the obvious so high that it's hard not to see this as little more than a way for people to spin their way into the ivory tower. After all, what the fuck is the point of having, or being, a "domain expert" in this goofy, story-licious, post-modern magic kingdom that's being described?
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After the Ides of March come the Porsches of April.
Is it like this in other cities? In
Montreal, you can pretty much gauge the arrival of spring by the volume
of Porches on the street. They overrun the city like big shiny locusts,
growing in numbers every day, until St. Jean Baptiste. The first time I
noticed this, I thought maybe everyone in the city had gone nuts and
bought expensive new cars in a pique of lifestyle porn. People are
funny here that way; if something catches on, it is usually only about
2-3 days before the borg-mind takes over and everyone is doing it.
Supertramp; sunglasses with yellow lenses -- it's one thing to see the
hipsters on the Main wearing them another thing entirely to get the eye
from a 60-something Portuguese grandmother lugging the groceries home
sporting Disco-2000-I-Kill-You-Dead shades; the return of 80's fashion
victims; boy-bands -- someone pointed out the other day that while any
given boy-band of the week will play New York City for one night,
they'll then hop on a bus and play ten nights in Montreal. No one is
too sexy for their shirt here; everyone just wears the
same
shirt. So, while I've never bothered to investigate, I've always been
pretty sure that the mean little sports cars tooling up and down St.
Denis are nothing more than loaners doled out to eager wannabees, for a
couple weeks at a time, not so much to generate a buzz but to make it
look like the buzz has already happened. But once you see the first
one, it usually means that spring is, not withstanding this year's
fake
winter
, probably only another two or three feet of snow away.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : indomitable
Indomitable \In*dom"i*ta*ble\, a. [L. indomitabilis; pref. in- not + domitare, intens. fr. domare to tame. See {Tame}.] Not to be subdued; untamable; invincible; as, an indomitable will, courage, animal. web1913
indomitable adj : impossible to subdue [syn: {never-say-die}, {unsubduable}] wn
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : tyro
Tyro, KS (city, FIPS 71925) Location: 37.03670 N, 95.82142 W Population (1990): 243 (98 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) gazetteer
Tyro \Ty"ro\, n.; pl. {Tyros}. [L. tiro a newlylevied soldier, a beginner.] A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice. [Written also {tiro}.] The management of tyros of eighteen Is difficult. --Cowper. web1913
tyro n : someone new to a field or activity [syn: {novice}, {beginner}, {tiro}, {initiate}] wn
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Kevin Altis : ""When the app starts up, it automatically grabs the text in the clipboard
and pastes it into the content field."
Anyone want to take bets on how long it will
take before this one hits the
RISKS digest
? via
scripting news
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : temerarious
Temerarious \Tem`er*a"ri*ous\, a. [L. temerarius. See {Temerity}.] Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless. -- {Tem`er*a"ri*ous*ly}, adv. I spake against temerarious judgment. --Latimer. web1913
temerarious adj : presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff" [syn: {brash}, {daredevil}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mongrol
very extreme in what you do
ex. you are a chip Mongrol and hog all the chip
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bodgieman
Someone who can 'fix' anything, given the right amount of inappropriate materiél and sufficient amounts of boundless enthusiasm. Balanced only by stunning incompetence.
ex. Alice: "Looks like the asbetos nozzle on my favourite flamethrower has broken off." Bob: "Never mind, I'll call on bodgieman. Chuck! Over here!" Chuck: "Hmm. I'll Sellotape (Scotchtape) it back together. No problem." All: "Bodgieman can fix anything with Sellotape!"
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Russell Matbouli : WWW::UsePerl::Journal.pm
"lists journal entries for a user. Can display a
specific journal entry."
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DynDNS.org Announces $20, 000 Donation to Perl Foundation
"Thanks primarily to Perl and other Open Source
technologies, we are able to provide DNS services to over 180,000 members
of the Internet community. This is our way of giving back to some of the
people whose tireless devotion to writing quality software has enabled us
to provide our services to the Internet community over the past three
years. ... Not only is Perl the core technology behind our services, but
the Perl community has welcomed us both as an organization and as
individuals. It seems natural for us to share our success with them." see
also :
How to
Donate to Perl in Corporate Fashion in 24 Hours
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Neil McIntosh : "It's the beginning of the end of free at Blogger."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is asseverate
| source : web1913 | Asseverate \As*sev"er*ate\,
v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Asseverated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Asseverating}.] [L. asseveratus, p. p. of asseverare to assert seriously
or earnestly; ad + severus. See {Severe}.] To affirm or aver positively,
or with solemnity. Syn: To affirm; aver; protest; declare. See {Affirm}.
| source : wn | asseverate v : state categorically [syn: {assert},
{maintain}]
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Jeffa : HTML::Template extensions for Dreamweaver
"
I am a programmer. Why would I want Dreamweaver extensions for
HTML::Template?
" If you work with a designer/design team, chances are they use
Dreamweaver to create the HTML templates. Now they can use HTML::Template
tags in Dreamweaver just like they would any other object - by clicking
on an icon which places the resulting HTML code in the document. "
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I didn't really think it was possible,
but I have almost finished re-jigging the
HTML behind the weblog to be completely <table>-less. Since
everything that comes out of the database is RSS, it's just a question
of a little bit of XSL munging and some CSS magic and you'd never know
anything had changed. Well, except for the unpolished image files,
wacky colour mismatches, random font-sizes and foofy-less meta data.
Anyway, I will try to post the files XSL and CSS files in the next
couple of days although I doubt I will have time to write up any kind
of documentation. Mileage for people using pre 5.0 browsers will
undoubtedly vary...
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Me : I'd like a sidebar with that thought, please.
Following up on yesterday's comments about
categories as rss as html as [mozilla] sidebars
, I've added the necessary widgets to make it so. At the bottom of each
of each
category/.*/recent
page, there is a link for adding the feed for that category as a
sidebar.
Insert booming voice-over talking about empowering users and
generally pandering to their innate selfishness as though it were a
virtue in the new digital, content-is-king, only pay for what you need
(read:the more you spend, the more you save) age, here.
I also made a
weblogs.com
sidebar widget
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Eatdrinkfeelgood
I have uploaded new versions of the
DTD
(which is almost finalized, I think), the
XSL
stylesheet
as well as
XML
and
HTML
examples. There is also a suite of Perl modules for querying the
documents and generating foofy index-card sized PDF files that I will
try to get out in the next day or two (bugs).
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Georgi Georgiev : class.dlist.db.php
is a "simple, not very well writen class, which
manages dynamic double-linked list structure of data."
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Some of the joys of dual U.S. - Canadian citizenship, so far :
border guards, registering for U.S.
Selective Services full of punk-rock testosterone after living in
Canada for eighteen years, knowing what milk-in-a-bag is and , most
recently, getting bribed by the President. It occurred to me that maybe
I should send my 300$ to Ralph Nader. After talking to some friends,
though, I've decided to write a cheque -- writing cheque on American
websites, that's
definitely
another one -- for 300$ USD to a Canadian community organization. Those
of you who've chosen to do something else with your piece of the Social
Security pie should atleast set aside enough to buy a copy of Terry
Southern's
The Magic
Christian
and Aldous Huxley's
Ape
and Essence
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is remonstrate
| source : web1913 | Remonstrate \Re*mon"strate\,
v. i. To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or
any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a
person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation. It
is proper business of a divine to state cases of conscience, and to
remonstrate against any growing corruptions in practice, and especially
in principles. --Waterland. Syn: {Expostulate}, {Remonstrate}. Usage:
These words are commonly interchangeable, the principal difference being
that expostulate is now used especially to signify remonstrance by a
superior or by one in authority. A son remonstrates against the harshness
of a father; a father expostulates with his son on his waywardness.
Subjects remonstrate with their rulers; sovereigns expostulate with the
parliament or the people. | source : web1913 | Remonstrate
\Re*mon"strate\ (-str?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Remonstrated}
(-str?*t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Remonstrating}.] [LL. remonstratus, p.
p. of remonstrare to remonstrate; L. pref. re- + monstrare to show. See
{Monster}.] To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest;
hence, to prove; to demonstrate. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. I will remonstrate
to you the third door. --B. Jonson. | source : wn | remonstrate v 1:
argue in protest or opposition 2: present and urge reasons in opposition
[syn: {point out}] 3: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded
the child for entering the stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime
Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup";
"check" is archaic [syn: {rebuke}, {check}, {rag}, {reproof}, {lecture},
{reprimand}, {jaw}, {dress down}, {scold}, {chide}, {berate}, {bawl out},
{chew out}, {chew up}, {have words}, {lambaste}, {lambast}]
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Brian McConnell : Peer-to-Peer Taxation
I find it hard to imagine this as anything
but crank put out by O'Reilly to stir the pot around the idea of
peer-to-peer, in anticipation of their upcoming conference on the same
subject. I say this because the only discussion about the network here
is the buzzword-bingo that tries to obfuscate a seriously ugly
political agenda. Essentially, this guy is advocating downloading all
the government's responsibilities (read:money) on to the private sector
and replacing political debate with ballot initiatives. In this
context, the only role the network plays is as a tool to distract the
masses from what's really going on.
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Perlmonks : URI::Unprotocol.pm
"was created for sites ... which need / want /
could use "unprotocols", that is, foreign protocols that actually map
onto known protocols. [e.g.
google://
,
id://
and
dict://
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bailiwick
| source : web1913 | Bailiwick \Bail"i*wick\, n.
[Bailie, bailiff + wick a village.] (Law) The precincts within which a
bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
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I would consider buying one of these
Kip Hampton : Using XML and Relational Databases with Perl
The myth
and the very orange reality
. Orange is in, right? What the fuck am I doing here?
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Debugging is hard enough as it is.
Debugging with a sprained ankle
really sucks.
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SANS Flash Advisory
"You are vulnerable to total compromise simply by
previewing or reading an email (without opening any attachments) if you
have one of the affected operating systems and have the following
installed: Microsoft Access 97 or 2000 [or] Internet Explorer 4.0 or
higher." I guess that's the diplomatic way of saying "You risk getting
fucked if you use Windows."
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Postscript
I went to the clinic to have a tetanus shot this
afternoon. The doctor was kind and professional and couldn't resist
telling me, as he stuck the needle in my arm, that when he was a child
growing up in India he figures he stepped on a rusty nail once every
three weeks. Jack Tripper ... Jack Tripper ... Jack Tripper ...
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Many of todays links
have gone on my "
reading pile
". I think that if we were all forced to keep one of these and be
brutally honest about what we'd actually read versus what we thought
sounded neat, we might get a better handle on the depth, or penetration,
of any given meme.
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Ways to Rome : Processing XML with Perl
"One of Perl's key features is: things can be
done more then one way. This holds when processing XML using Perl. This
brief tutorial solves a simple task again and again using different,
XML-related CPAN modules and programming styles." see also
Michel
Rodriguez's overview of XML Perl modules
by the same name.
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Builder.com on the Open Source Flash player
"By placing particular emphasis on the SWF file
format, the compressed end product optimized for Web playback, Macromedia
has downplayed the importance of its still very proprietary FLA format.
FLA is essentially the true Flash format because it includes all the
important structural details, such as scenes and layers, as well as the
uncompressed audio and bitmap source objects and the symbol library. "
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The Librarians' Index to the Internet
"is a searchable, annotated subject directory of
more than 6,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians
for their usefulness to users of public libraries. It's meant to be used
by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide
to described and evaluated Internet resources."
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Charles C. Mann : Bugged
Wherein the author coins the phrase "Microsoftian
uselessness".
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ManilaISP News
How many ways can you say It needs to run under
Unix? Manila is cool. Very cool. It's great for offices and small
networks, and maybe Dave is right when he says that Windows 2000 actually
works. But he's a
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Brad L. Graham : Day Without Weblogs
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All Things Considered : The night America discovered Oscar Peterson
real audio
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The Leisure Luge
"I smiled when I got the email from my BBC
contact. He asked if I could do the second part of the live interview
from my skateboard-propelled recliner via cell phone as I rolled through
the streets of Richmond. The suggestion was as absurd and spontaneous as
the Leisure Luge itself. I loved that. " Sweet!
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William Safire : Killer E-speak for the 24/7 Generation
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
"Je ne crois pas que notre idée puisse être
comparée à la taxe Tobin. Cette proposition visait à stabiliser les
mouvements de capitaux pour éviter la spéculation. Pour nous, une taxe
sur les mails n'a pas pour objectif de stabiliser l'expansion de
l'Internet, ce qui serait néfaste. Au contraire, nous disons qu'on peut
profiter de cette explosion pour en faire bénéficier le plus grand nombre
et réduire ainsi les écarts entre les branchés et les autres." I think
it's a wothwhile idea but I also think the
backend
will kill it (if it ever gets off the ground).
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Joe Lelyveld
"While literally billions of speculative dollars
are being amassed, invested and turned into overnight fortunes in this
effort to develop and control the means of transmission in the coming age
of instantaneous information, investment in the actual gathering of
information by conventional journalistic means is in apparent decline,
under the banner of cost control, in all but a handful of traditional
news organizations. ... The Internet ... is a wonderful place to collect
raw data. But it's not, so far, a wonderful place to find reliable and
original reporting, real news, except where it has been siphoned off the
old."
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Supreme Court of Canada : Dobson (Litigation Guardian of) v. Dobson
See also :
Newsworld : Fetus can't sue mom, top court says
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Webhippie
Someone, please, save us from ourselves!
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I'm going to see Picasso at the Lapin Agile
wtf?
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