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Barack Obama’s speech.

21-Jan-09

http://smragan.com/2015/02/17/ocd-bristlebot/       One of the reasons why it felt so different was that he was asking us to do something.  It wasn’t like a Bill Clinton speech with a laundry list of ideas, nor like a Bush speech about a threat we face.  Both of those were elements, but the general impression I got from the speech […]

Right now…

21-Jan-09

http://circleplastics.co.uk/plus/comments_frame.php … the internet is probably doubling its content.  Of the two million (or so) people there at the inauguration yesterday, I had the feeling that about a million were going to go home and post their photos on their blog.  Everyone had a camera, and you could tell that many people were hunting around for […]

At the omphalos kosmou.

21-Jan-09

As for the beard and baseball cap, “wear the outer garment of the red state, and the inner garment of the mystic way.”

The Inauguration of Barack Obama.

20-Jan-09

I started the day by walking to the Bethesda Metro station, where I took a train towards the Mall.  The platform was crowded, and the train, when it arrived, was almost full, and was completely full by the time it pulled out of the station.  Bethesda is the last stop before the train enters the […]