Author: kurt
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Why Have an International Date Line?
Recent events have piqued my interest (in a very roundabout way) in something that I’ve never fully understood. To wit, what is the International Date Line and why do we need one? The Basics Here’s what I already knew about the International Date Line (hereafter, IDL). It is the place on the Earth where a…
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The Gary Kelley Murder Trial
I was recently on a jury for a murder trial — the trial of Gary Kelley for the so-called “SB1070 Murder”. Here is my day-by-day account of how it went. Each section was written the same day that everything happened so in a few cases, I didn’t know certain things until later on. I’ll try…
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Facebook is Evil
or Why I’m Joining Facebook Anyway Let’s be clear; Facebook is evil and epitomizes nearly everything that is bad about the Internet. Yet I joined Facebook in spite of that. Why? Critical mass, baby… critical mass. The Anti-Internet Most of the current Facebook users weren’t around during the early days of the Internet and the…