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Jason Kottke has been blessed/cursed with a very active Matrix: Reloaded thread. Over 700 entries strong, the thread takes up about 1.5 MB of disk space and is responsible for over 5 GB of data transfer this month alone. Jason obviously has a very generous hosting plan because this doesn’t seem to bother him very much; his main dilema is whether or not he should close the conversation to new posts.

The best part of all of this is that Jason took all the text from the thread and input it into MS Word. Using the “AutoSummary” feature he produced the Reloaded poem below.

The Matrix 1.1?

Wake up Neo…
Real vs Matrix.
Sorry, no “matrix within a matrix”. “Wake up Neo.”

Neo is human.

RTFB Neo!

Rewatch The Matrix.
Neo: Yeah.
Neo: Ahhh.
Neo: What?
Neo: Morpheus.
Neo: What?
Neo: Stop.
Neo: The Oracle.
Trinity: No, Neo.
Neo: Yeah.

The Matrix Overloaded

Matrix Within A Matrix?

3. DOUBLE MATRIX theory.
NEO: No.

Regarding a Matrix within a Matrix:
Aren’t 2 matrices sufficient?
Neo: “No.”
Neo: “No.”

Morpheus: “Rest, Neo.
Morpheus: “Rest, Neo. (of the matrix)

Enter the Matrix

Matrix within a Matrix…
Matrix within a Matrix…
Matrix within a Matrix…

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Posted at 12:54 pm.
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MetaFilter is linking to a CNN article about the struggle of Israeli paramedics dealing with the victims of Palestinian suicide bombers. Shock and Awe brings some attention to the struggle of Palestinian paramedics dealing with the victims of Israeli rocket attacks. But the Palestinians have one more variable to deal with: Israeli checkpoints which can delay an ambulance for up to 5 hours at a time.

This is where I should insert the disclaimer about not supporting terrorist activity by the Palestinians when I decry the actions of Israel. A coworker and I were talking about this very issue today (I was remarking that Israel has been getting very publicly spanked by the Bush administration lately) and he took the viewpoint that if the Palestinians would just take on the tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. world opinion would shift in their favor and the whole mess would come an end. I can’t even begin to imagine how difficult it would be to practice peaceful, non-violent resistance while under the gun of a military occupation.

I just hope that Bush’s new focus on reigning Sharon in will actually produce some results: fewer people dying.

Posted at 4:42 pm.
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How should one answer the compliments directed at one’s child by a stranger? My son Wisdom, the charmer that he is, never fails to garner praise from anyone fortunate enough to be caught in the presence of his dirty blonde curls and sky blue eyes. I usually answer with a polite “Thank you”, but recently I’ve been feeling the inadequacy of this response. Thank you? I’m not being complimented. In fact I’m hardly being looked at, dumbstruck as these people are with Wisdom’s grace and poise. It’s a tough one. John Cusack’s character in High Fidelity readily responds to obvious statements of “this is good” with a simple “I know.” I, too, know my son is fabulous. The mornings that I wake to his glowing little face are mornings not soon forgotten.

So, “I know” it is. Now I just have to make sure that I can say this in a way which will not make potential dates feel that I am somehow above them, for I simply already know.

Posted at 10:56 pm.
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