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Lunch at 701
Tue 11.09.04 10:24am PST #11182
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Most of the other managers are out of the office at a management conference, so I'm treating myself to lunch at the bar of the restaurant at 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, which is next to the Navy Memorial. Sweet corn soup and grilled steak salad were excellent but the cashew bar with bananna ice cream desert was killer.

- mike lee - washington, dc
Fear The Sponge
Sun 11.07.04 10:28am PST #11161
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Here is photo-documentation of one of the first moments of character merchandising imprinting on our child's innocent mind.

- mike lee - baltimore
Last Warm Day...
Sun 11.07.04 6:43am PST #11158
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...here in Baltimore until spring.

- mike lee
Luminous Lunch
Sat 11.06.04 11:37am PST #11147
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Sunlight streams through the front windows of Helen's Garden Restaurant to spotlight our lunch.

- mike lee - baltimore
SW3 Teaser Trailer
Fri 11.05.04 8:42pm PST #11138
this picture is owned by the submitter. contact submitter for permission before using it in any wayI just had a chance to watch a QuickTime clip of the new teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith. It's under two minutes long but gives some tantalizing glimpses of the movie, which opens May 19th 2005. There are a bunch of mirror sites linked from the November 5th post at Internapse. I feel fan fever coming on...

- mike lee - baltimore
Hard Pills Swallowed
Wed 11.03.04 10:10pm PST #11112
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I had a break between meetings this afternoon, so I caught Kerry's concession and Bush's acceptance speeches in our company cafeteria. In the 40 minutes between the speeches, I read a project proposal, but my thoughts drifted, and my low grade head cold, which didn't help my somber mood, demanded I take a DayQuill LiquiCap pill. There was great irony in this act as many others, including my candidate of hope, were swallowing a hard pill today.

The shiny pill remembered to me an essay I read a while back on the Philosophy of the Matrix where the choosing of colored pills in that movie represent acceptance or denial of truth. Here's some of that text:

Morpheus contacts Neo just as the machines (posing as sinister 'agents') are trying to keep Neo from finding out any more. When Morpheus and Neo meet, Morpheus offers Neo two pills. The red pill will answer the question "what is the Matrix?" (by removing him from it) and the blue pill simply for life to carry on as before. As Neo reaches for the red pill Morpheus warns Neo "Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more."

...

The question then is not about pills, but what they stand for in these circumstances. The question is asking us whether reality, truth, is worth pursuing. The blue pill will leave us as we are, in a life consisting of habit, of things we believe we know. We are comfortable, we do need truth to live. The blue pill symbolises commuting to work every day, or brushing your teeth.

The red pill is an unknown quantity. We are told that it can help us to find the truth. We don't know what that truth is, or even that the pill will help us to find it. The red pill symbolises risk, doubt and questioning. In order to answer the question, you can gamble your whole life and world on a reality you have never experienced.


By the sometimes absurd election process that our democracy mandates, a majority have chosen the blue pill for our country. That's tough medicine, and half of us are left wondering who will offer us a red pill in four years.

- mike lee - baltimore
Four More
Tue 11.02.04 10:07pm PST #11091
this picture is owned by the submitter. contact submitter for permission before using it in any wayWell NBC just called it for Bush. And now I'm fighting a cold too. I'm going to sleep.
Done!
Tue 11.02.04 5:44am PST #11071
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Early Counts
Tue 11.02.04 4:52am PST #11070
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Funny bit at the 7-11 at 33rd and Barclay: a guy was getting on a store clerk for mixing up the Bush and Kerry coffee cup stacks. Once straightened out, the Kerry stack was shorter. No surprise in this neighborhood. The line we're standing in outside of Library #9 across the street has about 60 people.

- mike lee - baltimore
Life's Little Lessons
Mon 11.01.04 3:39pm PST #11064
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11-month-old Baby Cianna is mimicing us very quickly these days. This photo sequence shows what she learned from me a few minutes ago.

- mike lee - baltimore
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