So it’s the Sunday of memorial day weekeend, otherwise known as less than a week to Valhalla Faire, 2008. I’ve completed the TV spots I was supposed to do this morning. Going to drop off the remaining posters and flyers that I have with me with Swallow, then hit Harvey’s to make sure the banner [...]

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Pity they didn’t come to collect him 7 years ago when he lost the first time around…

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From today’s Press-Democrat (Santa Rosa):
“Calling all Renaissance Faire frocked maidens and burly goblet
swillers. Your moment has arrived. The latest Adam Sandler movie,
‘Bedtime Stories,’ is shooting a 14th century Renaissance Faire scene or
two in Calistoga this summer. Casting calls are being held from 1 to 6
pm today and 10 am to 4 pm Saturday at the [...]

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It’s a user-defined-function to split a given string into ‘words’. In this case I’m delimiting words using commas and spaces. So ‘Smith, Fred’ (with a comma AND a space) will be separated into ‘Smith’ and ‘Fred’.
For convenience, it returns a table with a ‘pos’ column, representing the position in the original text that the word [...]

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Here’s a revised version of the trailer for Joss Whedon’s new show Dollhouse, which explains the show’s concept much more clearly and features a lot more ass-whuppin’. Plus, parachuting and assassining. The show’s central conceit — that these “Actives” are blank slates who can be programmed to have any skillset or emotion — comes out [...]

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