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I had the itch to write some music tonight and scratched it with this:

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All the smoke and ash in the air from the fires on either side of Los Angeles is turning the sky orange and dumping ash on our cars, even though they’re each 30-40 miles from here. My throat stings and my eyes burn- nowhere close to what our neighbors to the north and to the south east are dealing with, but not fun.

Boing Boing is holding an obfuscated code contest. My entry is near the bottom of the page:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/12/obfuscated-code-cont.html#comment-329432

Bonus points if you can figure out what’s going on.

Here’s a meme I picked up from a blog in my feed reader:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Here’s mine:

“He’s been doing it through dinner and their pre-dinner drinks, and Cayce assumes he does it because he’s the boss, and perhaps because he really does bore easily.” – From Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (one of several books that has been sitting on my bookshelf for quite some time- I really should take more time to read).

beautiful sunset today