In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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- How to kill a popular government institution with us since the founding of the country before everyone's eyes
- Evil Neighbor Blues
- My grandfather is doing fantastic
- Update on Housing Demolotions in Bangalore, India
- In which the hospital attempts to fulfill my grandfather's death wish
- Update on Alfred Natkin from Cape Cod Hospital
- Doing What One Can Do
- Proposition 37 Million Dollars
- Andrew Judson Grice (1969-2012)
- Peasants and migrant workers rising up, organizing, and even winning in repressive China
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Food cufflink.
Fri, 2010/06/25 - 11:56am — Benjamin MelançonI feel left out of a lot of this food chain talk. I'm vegan, it's more of a food cufflink.
can't start a fire without a spark
Sat, 2010/06/05 - 8:51pm — Benjamin MelançonYou can't start a fire without a spark.
ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know
Sat, 2010/06/05 - 4:08pm — Benjamin MelançonYou ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know.
An absurdly chaotic system that produces bizarrely functional results
Sat, 2010/06/05 - 3:24pm — Benjamin MelançonDrupal is an absurdly chaotic system that produces bizarrely functional results...just like nature.
Downside is the alcohol
Tue, 2010/03/30 - 9:45pm — Benjamin MelançonThe only downside of this is the alcohol.
Real TV
Mon, 2010/03/22 - 3:38am — Benjamin MelançonIt's not real television, it's reality television.
Absence of bad
Sun, 2010/03/14 - 11:34am — Benjamin MelançonThe absence of anything bad for you does not mean the presence of anything good for you.
On only needing enough money to make mortgage payments, not to eat
Mon, 2009/12/07 - 7:03pm — Benjamin MelançonI am able to live without food for longer than my bank is willing to go without a mortgage payment.
Successful faking
Mon, 2009/11/09 - 11:45pm — Benjamin MelançonThe successful among us are just more persistent at faking knowing what they are doing.
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"One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts."
--quote to Walter Daellenbach, May 31, 1915.