new paper up in verbal

So my new paper on Law & Order is up in verbal intercourse.

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this is LA, after all

Just heard from the loudspeaker of the LAPD helicoptor circling just on the other side of Vermont:

Surrender now, or the dog will be used. You have one minute to surrender.

There was a little bit more that I didn't catch, but that was the gist of it. The helicoptor is still circling with the spotlight on a couple minutes later. Now back to writing about law enforcement...

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paper time in the big city

So it's paper time again, and I'm definitely running a little bit later of a schedule than I would like. The prompt for tonight is:

Craft an analysis exploring the relationships, however fraught and contradictory they might be, between discourses of law & order, urban space, and hip-hop creative culture.

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googlefun

I finally got around to autologging my google hits into a db, so googlefun will now be constantly up to date. Eventually I'll flesh it out to provide some more interesting stats and graphs, but I think even now it's a fun little view into how people find my site.

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stupid video card

So I've been having sporadic video problems for the last two months or so, and recently they've started happening all the time. I run XFree86 with the NVidia drivers on an old TNT card (Diamond Viper 550, I think), and recently I've been getting absolutely atrocious performance from things that previously had run fine (transparent Eterms in particular). It's like the lag of a slow remote connection, even when typing in a local window. The only thing I've found to make it go away is switching back to the stock nv driver (and losing Xv acceleration). I'm really at a loss to explain this. It started happening with really nothing relevent changed.

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