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  1. Identity invested in pieces of paper. "See me. I'm somebody". Every introduction began with a list of bona fides.
  2. In America you purchase your class. I guess it's a step up from landed aristocracy who simply stole it with brute force.
  3. It's all about class. I am more convinced of that now than I was when I was 18.
  4. even if you are thug you have to be a credentialed thug
  5. Wondering about Americans overwhelming obsession with credentials
  6. I miss clarity.
  7. I miss Kripke and his time slices
  8. Mark misses XSLT. I miss Paul Grice.
  9. I think I want to go back to the discussion I started 30 years ago - what does it mean to say "mean to say"?
  10. I have become an engineer. How did this happen? Of course, engineers wouldn't agree but in the common sense of the word, it has come to pass
  11. I will be strategic in everything I do - not!
  12. seems as though everything is now a policy or a strategy
  13. 4:20 am and can't sleep. work is like the borg
  14. @trevorthornton man you look a lot like eddie murphy - amazing
  15. the most compelling thing in a train station - even if you aren't taking a train - is the constantly updated schedule board
  16. I'd like to see a large video screen with a twitter dashboard at the entrance to the library
  17. @lisld be interesting to know if blogs are really not our thing anymore. i'm sure your intuitions are right
  18. @footage I was at Expo 67 when there was an Expo 67
  19. @anarchivist got it
  20. Ben got some wooden book place holders. I would love a fake library made of them