― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 25 August 2006 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Modern society has access to highly advanced technology and can make available food, clothing, housing and medical care; update our educational system; and develop a limitless supply of renewable, non-contaminating energy. By supplying an efficiently designed economy, everyone can enjoy a very high standard of living with all of the amenities of a high technological society.
A resource-based economy would utilize existing resources from the land and sea, physical equipment, industrial plants, etc. to enhance the lives of the total population. In an economy based on resources rather than money, we could easily produce all of the necessities of life and provide a high standard of living for all.
Consider the following examples: At the beginning of World War II the US had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war.
In a resource-based economy all of the world's resources are held as the common heritage of all of Earth's people, thus eventually outgrowing the need for the artificial boundaries that separate people. This is the unifying imperative.
We must emphasize that this approach to global governance has nothing whatever in common with the present aims of an elite to form a world government with themselves and large corporations at the helm, and the vast majority of the world's population subservient to them. Our vision of globalization empowers each and every person on the planet to be the best they can be, not to live in abject subjugation to a corporate governing body.
Our proposals would not only add to the well being of people, but they would also provide the necessary information that would enable them to participate in any area of their competence. The measure of success would be based on the fulfillment of one's individual pursuits rather than the acquisition of wealth, property and power.
At present, we have enough material resources to provide a very high standard of living for all of Earth's inhabitants. Only when population exceeds the carrying capacity of the land do many problems such as greed, crime and violence emerge. By overcoming scarcity, most of the crimes and even the prisons of today's society would no longer be necessary.
A resource-based world economy would also involve all-out efforts to develop new, clean, and renewable sources of energy: geothermal; controlled fusion; solar; photovoltaic; wind, wave, and tidal power; and even fuel from the oceans. We would eventually be able to have energy in unlimited quantity that could propel civilization for thousands of years. A resource-based economy must also be committed to the redesign of our cities, transportation systems, and industrial plants, allowing them to be energy efficient, clean, and conveniently serve the needs of all people.
What else would a resource-based economy mean? Technology intelligently and efficiently applied, conserves energy, reduces waste, and provides more leisure time. With automated inventory on a global scale, we can maintain a balance between production and distribution. Only nutritious and healthy food would be available and planned obsolescence would be unnecessary and non-existent in a resource-based economy.
As we outgrow the need for professions based on the monetary system, for instance lawyers, bankers, insurance agents, marketing and advertising personnel, salespersons, and stockbrokers, a considerable amount of waste will be eliminated. Considerable amounts of energy would also be saved by eliminating the duplication of competitive products such as tools, eating utensils, pots, pans and vacuum cleaners. Choice is good. But instead of hundreds of different manufacturing plants and all the paperwork and personnel required to turn out similar products, only a few of the highest quality would be needed to serve the entire population. Our only shortage is the lack of creative thought and intelligence in ourselves and our elected leaders to solve these problems. The most valuable, untapped resource today is human ingenuity.
With the elimination of debt, the fear of losing one's job will no longer be a threat This assurance, combined with education on how to relate to one another in a much more meaningful way, could considerably reduce both mental and physical stress and leave us free to explore and develop our abilities.
If the thought of eliminating money still troubles you, consider this: If a group of people with gold, diamonds and money were stranded on an island that had no resources such as food, clean air and water, their wealth would be irrelevant to their survival. It is only when resources are scarce that money can be used to control their distribution. One could not, for example, sell the air we breathe or water abundantly flowing down from a mountain stream. Although air and water are valuable, in abundance they cannot be sold.
Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such.
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 25 August 2006 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link
My brother is a patent lawyer and I've spent a countless hours time chatting about ideas to him and investigating the possibility of filing patents on designs and ideas I've had for magnetic nozzles etc. One thing that has suprised me quite a lot is that basically, if you've had a great idea, you can almost bet your life that at least one other person is already onto something very similar or already filed for it. If you revisit the patent office with new ideas regularly, you'll see just how incredibly frequent this is - and how little most people appreciate the repetition of ideas. My brother, as someone who deals with the problems when the ideas cross over, can attest to the similarities and, often, almost insignificant differences between designs claiming to be unique. Not being a particularly religious person, I don't have a lot to comfort myself when it comes to the idea of death. But one of the few things* I do take some kind of strange comfort in is that even after I die, I'm sure there will be people with minds working in a similar pattern to my own. They won't be me, and they won't have exactly the same ideas, but they'll be approximations. My point here is that I think people sometimes over emphasise on each individual being unique in a superior sense. We're each unique, but I think there are a lot more similarities than differences - the motto of the IP guys being "Evolution not revolution!"
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 11 September 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link
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― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 23 September 2006 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link
We're living in a time where more helpful new things tend to become availablealmost like clockwork. But you still have to seek them out, stay up to date, anddecide whether to make use of them as they become available. The strategy of sitback and just "eat healthy" may not be the best idea over the coming years asmore and more powerful techniques become viable. On the other hand of coursewhen it comes to new drugs and therapies, being the very first adopter may alsonot be optimal due to incompletely known risk profiles. Your appetite for theserisks may depend on your age. If I was older I probably would lean more towardsbeing an early first adopter... for now I'm more in the middle of the pack.
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
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― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 25 September 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link
UntitledAAA Another American Artist — each axis spawns another axis — And — and? a sort of beggar’s testament — typed that’s not me — — whom I know you might consider one of the lightweight artist-intellectuals of our time — perhaps not the most productive) — or especially — Did the flounder flounder — the bass bass? as I am also dissatisfied — in London town — — you have to live with it — practicing in Brooklyn — Finessing the first kiss. For your pleasure — try the Mount Rushmore posture for any longer than 15 years — Seconds ago — — poverty — abjection — — named her — with the sky just pissing over the horizon. — the lad’s skinny legs barely activated for the days ahead, the eyes still red from summer’s lawn chairs — Hello hello. I was lying. — it was nearly voted in — the amendments constructed — and the toxic verticality of its filaments integrated into the country’s fabric — as the moment is digital — — unbothered — — axis thinking — like nation individual — real people — real poems — Well — I thank you — It doesn’t pay to be conservative. it is anti-Wagnerian — in this sense — It opens. Let me warn you: Lust never troubled me. Maybe tomorrow. — and the color’s flawed — — so playing tennis won’t solve much of anything — neither his own nor My lazy glands will ever support me. My sense is that one can find an analogy in poetry Nation is easily placed on the axis of transnation nation — a headache in a ballroom — constant — — the trade of all sophists — — slow tones that surrender themselves finally — in the mist — Or hell — certainly when — “watch me getting fucked every which way” the thin hair of our information Professionals. Politesse with the finger bent. be simply a diagram for memory — — you can replace it if you’d like — Fisher-Price joys now that the idea of the flood has subsided. — so — then — yeah — description falters — they’ll never get anywhere — — speaking among themselves with polysyllabic cardinals and heliocentric ordinals pull the elastic back before such robust confusion More creativity lugged through weasel holes. not tired — governs the lack — though with respect — So few — So said those Pop dudes. Some of this screaming from Tan Dun seems to reflect this impassiveness — cathartic but recorded — Bob Mould — in Cleveland — insensate. — bad gums — Stamping. Standing in the zone. — lyrical — in expanded volumes; this scum records dutifully the you of us and should live. Surprise! — perhaps — speaking — worth nothing. jimmy the lock — vandalize the key — — don’t sing what is well made by Irish — — retract everything — words don’t know these physical boundaries — — as Duchamp famously quipped “dataflow — ” not to anticipate a later critical attitude toward the finished work so much as to maintain the aura (or era) of exploration — you will have no success — so Providence awaits global cellular rates — the number of croutons baking away — bruiser some complicated punctuation — some embryonic female who could make sense of all this. Of course! Tom Stinkmetal is man. Too Much Entropy? DVD — with a razor and beer — — screamed Calibanic fortune-cookies at Studio 54 — — unawares of our zeitgeisty question looming like Woody Allen’s brassiere over the fields with a slurp-slurpy sound (special effects); — though — kemosabee — like some presidential candidate — the beach delivered the body of Malcolm X — waltzing so softly — this action — to be skies edible as text daily to determine it — relax — so long as you are aspiring to love — but as love is inspiring the atmosphere — we’ve turned a corner Usually — borders of Dumbo — Very fine — thank you. Very fine — thank you. — flowing down in predictable cascades for all to see — set out for them With a million things to remember — Wanking — the boy returned to his home not crying larger definition healthy breakfast merely that — and given an “Asian mom” perm. — there clomb a tree barely able to lift the chin — that teething We are both conformists if I understand you correctly. though it sounded like French soufflé fed through a Kaos box — The dullness receding — the gritty matter; to deposit this egg in a brown bag on the reader’s doorstep — — I don’t know how to the “realms” and one more sure argument for literacy amongst those who don’t know — Weeping consolations. — cross-legged — — ratted on products — — quality of printed production — etc. When writing — making the fishbowls round. Posted by Brian Stefans at 11:25 AM
AAA Another American Artist — each axis spawns another axis — And — and? a sort of beggar’s testament — typed that’s not me — — whom I know you might consider one of the lightweight artist-intellectuals of our time — perhaps not the most productive) — or especially — Did the flounder flounder — the bass bass? as I am also dissatisfied — in London town — — you have to live with it — practicing in Brooklyn — Finessing the first kiss. For your pleasure — try the Mount Rushmore posture for any longer than 15 years — Seconds ago — — poverty — abjection — — named her — with the sky just pissing over the horizon. — the lad’s skinny legs barely activated for the days ahead, the eyes still red from summer’s lawn chairs — Hello hello. I was lying. — it was nearly voted in — the amendments constructed — and the toxic verticality of its filaments integrated into the country’s fabric — as the moment is digital — — unbothered — — axis thinking — like nation individual — real people — real poems — Well — I thank you — It doesn’t pay to be conservative.
it is anti-Wagnerian — in this sense — It opens. Let me warn you: Lust never troubled me. Maybe tomorrow. — and the color’s flawed — — so playing tennis won’t solve much of anything — neither his own nor My lazy glands will ever support me. My sense is that one can find an analogy in poetry Nation is easily placed on the axis of transnation nation — a headache in a ballroom — constant — — the trade of all sophists — — slow tones that surrender themselves finally — in the mist — Or hell — certainly when — “watch me getting fucked every which way” the thin hair of our information Professionals. Politesse with the finger bent. be simply a diagram for memory — — you can replace it if you’d like — Fisher-Price joys now that the idea of the flood has subsided.
— so — then — yeah — description falters — they’ll never get anywhere — — speaking among themselves with polysyllabic cardinals and heliocentric ordinals pull the elastic back before such robust confusion More creativity lugged through weasel holes. not tired — governs the lack — though with respect — So few — So said those Pop dudes.
Some of this screaming from Tan Dun seems to reflect this impassiveness — cathartic but recorded — Bob Mould — in Cleveland — insensate. — bad gums — Stamping. Standing in the zone. — lyrical — in expanded volumes; this scum records dutifully the you of us and should live. Surprise! — perhaps — speaking — worth nothing. jimmy the lock — vandalize the key — — don’t sing what is well made by Irish — — retract everything — words don’t know these physical boundaries — — as Duchamp famously quipped “dataflow — ” not to anticipate a later critical attitude toward the finished work so much as to maintain the aura (or era) of exploration — you will have no success — so Providence awaits global cellular rates — the number of croutons baking away — bruiser some complicated punctuation — some embryonic female who could make sense of all this. Of course! Tom Stinkmetal is man. Too Much Entropy? DVD — with a razor and beer — — screamed Calibanic fortune-cookies at Studio 54 — — unawares of our zeitgeisty question looming like Woody Allen’s brassiere over the fields with a slurp-slurpy sound (special effects); — though — kemosabee — like some presidential candidate — the beach delivered the body of Malcolm X — waltzing so softly — this action — to be skies edible as text daily to determine it — relax — so long as you are aspiring to love — but as love is inspiring the atmosphere — we’ve turned a corner Usually — borders of Dumbo — Very fine — thank you. Very fine — thank you. — flowing down in predictable cascades for all to see — set out for them With a million things to remember — Wanking — the boy returned to his home not crying larger definition healthy breakfast merely that — and given an “Asian mom” perm. — there clomb a tree
barely able to lift the chin — that teething We are both conformists if I understand you correctly. though it sounded like French soufflé fed through a Kaos box — The dullness receding — the gritty matter; to deposit this egg in a brown bag on the reader’s doorstep — — I don’t know how to the “realms” and one more sure argument for literacy amongst those who don’t know — Weeping consolations. — cross-legged — — ratted on products — — quality of printed production — etc. When writing — making the fishbowls round. Posted by Brian Stefans at 11:25 AM
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 1 October 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― asdfa, Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link
at stake is the cultural excreta, the better part of a chipotle burrito along with a few undigested kernels of corn (sub-cultural waste), a reminder of past glories. in the same sense, much of what the barbarians find will be looted, raped, or destroyed. it's not a happy matter, nor a sad one, it's a biological process. people eat and shit everyday. several languages die every year. the loss of ones cultural heritage is an ongoing biological process. with every defecation, every urination, we expel more of the mother's milk, the metric of the authenticity of one's own identity. we transform our physical identity with food.
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 5 October 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link
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― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link
The mind is inherently embodied.Thought is mostly unconscious.Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.(Lakoff and Johnson, 1999, p. 3)
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
*Please Note: Archive articles do not include photos, charts or graphics. More information.August 15, 2004, SundayBy DULCIE LEIMBACH (NYT); TelevisionLate Edition - Final, Section 13, Page 55, Column 1, 602 words
DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - WITH his arched brows and doo-wop hair, Robbie Rotten presents a stark contrast to Stephanie, an all-in-pink 8-year-old aspiring dancer who recently moved to LazyTown. In this fictional village -- the setting of the new Nickelodeon series ''LazyTown'' -- adults like to lounge, but children are full of energy, ...
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― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link
No-one knows whose friend he is,He's always there,He's the big man restless, like forty indians.I'm in the third group,we push for humour,We're so relentless, like forty indians.
ChorusThe legal quarter of tight-lipped menPushed for orderAnd repeat againAnyway, the lot regarding the funny manThe big man restlessAre so relentlessThey scratched aboutAnd like forty indiansThe lot turn on the funny man,The big man restless
And what can he say
If the sun's all gone and we're wafer thinAnd we could scratch around in our so frail skinYou could sayYou could say
No flags in here, no cause to wave,Just the slow, slow scratch in the final caveYou could sayYou could say
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Computer engineer man, a researcher for the anarchist studies group., isworking on just such a mechanism. He's trying to devise what amounts toa digital diary, a searchable database that contains digitized versionsof nearly everything in his life
There are two parts to the project. The first is the experiment withlife storage -- capturing his papers, faxes, phone calls, photographsand home movies in digitalized form. The second part focuses ondeveloping software that would support this type of lifetime library onanyone's computer.
"The quest is to essentially build a surrogate memory. Something that'sas good as my own memory, that I can use it as a supplement, and willremember everything that I should have remembered, that came to my ears,eyes, whatever," man said of his experiment.
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
With its combination of expertise in computer science, brain sciences, and management, anarchism studies group is uniquely suited to address this question. We hope this work will lead to new scientific understanding in a variety of disciplines and practical advances in many areas of community based production and self-management. multipotent': 'multipot', 'multitude': 'multitud', 'multitudes': 'multitud', 'multitudinous': 'multitudin',
Global multi_mode; ! Multiple mode Global multi_wanted; ! Number of things needed in multitude Global multi_had; ! Number of things actually found
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― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
>>0>1<0<0<< 0 rhizome r-Azom- >>1>2<< 0 rhodium r-odixm >>1<00< 0 rhizoid rhizomatous rhizobia rhizomes rhizopod midnights rhizomes ballerina rhizomorph rhizomelic rhizoneure rhizomatous rhizome verbarrhizophaga
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Kristi L. Swope(1,2), Paul Bieganski(2), Ed Chi(2), Elizabeth Shoop(2), Olaf Holt(2), John Carlis(2), John Riedl(2), Thomas Newman(3) and Ernest F. Retzel(1)
(1)Medical School and (2)Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN;(3)DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
email: comments@lenti.med.umn.edu
Pattern #2 is described by the sequence:
at[ACGT]ac[ACGT](2)c[ACGT]tata[ACGT](8)tata[ACGT]g[ACGT](2)gt[ACGT]at
It selects for conservation of those base pairs in the lox-P site believed to be contact points for the Cre enzyme (underlined bases in the sequence ATAACTTCGTATA ATGTATGC TATACGAAGTTAT). This pattern is augmented by a mismatch parameter that allows up to 5 mismatches to be tolerated.
Pattern #3 is described by the sequence:
[ACGT](9)TATA[ACGT](8)TATA[ACGT](9).
It ensures that the TATA motif surrounding the core 8-bp spacer region is present. This pattern is augmented by a mismatch parameter that ensures no mismatches are tolerated.
A web service called Fuzznuc-Comparator was developed that compares the output from two fuzznuc processes and outputs only those sequences present in both. When the result of the comparison contains more than one sequence the Fuzznuc-Comparator tool performs a pairwise alignment of the core 8-bp spacer regions. The output file format consists of the result of the pairwise comparison (if any) followed by those sequences present in both input files (in fuzznuc’s seqtable format).
To isolate those sequences that match all three patterns two comparisons are required. First, a Fuzznuc-Comparator process is used to isolate those sequences that match patterns 1 & 2. A fileDivider process splits the output content and outputs only the fuzznuc seqtable section. Second, a Fuzznuc-Comparator process compares the output from the fileDivider process with those sequences that match pattern #3. The final step in the workflow is to write those sequences that match all three patterns to file.Mouse genome-wide map of cryptic loxp sitesThe power and flexibility of Motif Explorer is endless! There are a few basic conventions that you need to learn, and then simply let your imagination soar. Some of the conventions are based on PROSITE (Bairoch, 1995). First and foremost, the standard IUPAC one-letter codes for amino acids and nucleotides are used to designate residues and bases, respectively, with "x" standing for any amino acid (or base). Different shaped brackets have different meaning. For example, square brackets mean "accept any amino acid (or base) listed", and curly brackets mean "accept any amino acid (or base) except those listed". Also, parenthesis are used to designate a numerical value or range. Therefore, a search on
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 3 November 2006 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link
is dynamic cannot function without an active network connection may or may not be interactive may or may not be accessible on-line reflects contemporary culture cannot function without electricity is automated is not virtual is not dependent upon The World Wide Web
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
This idea is familiar within transhumanist and cryonics groups. It ismentioned in fiction; Joe Halpern, Greg Egan, Linda Nigata come to mind.There is also Tipler's version of the "Omega Point" where everyone whoever lived could be effectively reconstituted via latent information andnear-infinite computational power. I recall Robert Bradbury (on thislist) and John Smart in the last year talking about how personalitycapture might be valuable to the survivors, if not for the deceased.
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Making a living as someone with artistic talents of one sort or another is neither harder nor easier than making a living based on any other personal inclinations, save that one has to be competent, of course. Innovating in art is like innovating in any field -- acceptable if one's workmates agree on its merits and if the participatory plan find the workplace as a whole to be socially valuable.
--f you think that there is something called art which entitles something called an artist to live a life free of responsibility to the community, free of responsibility to co-workers, and remunerated at a rate above and beyond others, then parecon art will be a horror to your vision.
If you think that people doing art, like all other people, should contribute to the community and be supported for their socially valued labors, and that their endeavors should arise from their termperments and tastes, not from imposition by elites, parecon art will be a delight for you to behold.--
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 23 November 2006 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Sébastien, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
"They were famous pictures: Death on a Bicycle, Death Visits the Amusement Park.... They'd been a fad in the 2050s, at the time of the longevity breakthrough, when people realized that but for accidents and violence, they could live forever. Death was suddenly a pleasant old man, freed from his longtime burden. He rolled awkwardly along on his first bicycle ride, his scythe sticking up like a flag. Children ran beside him, smiling and laughing." (Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Realtime)
― Sébastien, Friday, 1 June 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Nature, through the trial and error of evolution, has discovered a vast diversity of life from what can only presumed to have been a primordial pool of building blocks. Inspired by this success, (...) is now trying to mimic the process of Darwinian evolution in the laboratory by evolving new proteins from scratch. Using new tricks of molecular biology, (...) have evolved several new proteins in a fraction of the 3 billion years it took nature. Their most recent results, (...) have led to some surprisingly new lessons on how to optimize proteins which have never existed in nature before, (...).
― Sébastien, Saturday, 16 June 2007 05:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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― 597, Saturday, 30 June 2007 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link
"Inert molecules from your cells! Chemical medicines won't reach that stuff, but the teleportation booth' does. It takes just those dead molecules and does the instant-elsewhere trick with them. Just the stuff that builds up over ninety years of life. See it now?" "I don't feel any different," she said uncertainly. "You should. I did. It was like I'd caught my second wind. Of course I was moving at a dead run. It's nothing obvious. What did you expect? In a couple of days you'll find dark roots in your hair."
― Sébastien, Sunday, 8 July 2007 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link