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2026 43

  1. Notes on an overheard coversation as commercials are playing
  2. For one day every two years, we no longer have to worry about campainging politicians spamming us. Tomorrow though? Unfortunately, that starts the 2028 Presidential campaign season
  3. An HTML title from Ηελλ
  4. Trick-or-Treating seems to be dead, at least in our neighborhood
  5. “… which is to say brightened up their faces, showed fire in their square or round or curiously slanted eyes. Flame guttered in their toothed mouths. Sparks leaped out their ripe-cut ears. Halloween.”
  6. Notes on an overheard conversation about an upcoming holiday, part II
  7. Notes from an overheard conversation about an upcoming holiday
  8. Can the Robot Exclusion Protocol apply to Gopher URLs?
  9. Guess what? Yet another email to a Sean Conner that isn't me
  10. Notes on an overheard conversation in a parking lot
  11. The closet situation has been resolved
  12. I never did ask her why she was eating Trader Joe's Cheezy Poofs in a Publix parking lot
  13. Notes on an overheard conversation at a D&D game
  14. Sunday, September 06, 2026
  15. Is it too early to call Google and Microsoft an email cartel?
  16. I guess this falls into the “hate the game, not the player” territory
  17. There's a more interesting story in “Star Wars: The Phantom Menance” than we ever got to see
  18. Current
  19. Tuesday, September 01, 2026
  20. Monday, August 31, 2026
  21. Notatoy
  22. Gmail might partially be to blame for me receiving emails from other Sean Conners
  23. Thursday, August 20, 2026
  24. Yet more noise on emails from other Sean Conners on the Intarwebs
  25. Did I inadvertently unlock someone else's car doors?
  26. Monday, August 17, 2026
  27. Saturday, August 15, 2026
  28. Tuesday, August 11, 2026
  29. Mowing Da Lawn, part II
  30. What is even taste when it comes to programming?
  31. Unary operators and the Shunting Yard algorithm
  32. Notes on an overheard conversation coming from the Family Room
  33. The surprising email to “Sean Conner” that wasn't meant for me
  34. Alarm clocks
  35. The precedence of the factorial operator
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2024 13

  1. receiving emails for other Sean Conners
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2023 8

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2022 12

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2021 12

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2020 12

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2019 12

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2018 12

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2017 12

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2016 11

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2015 12

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2014 12

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2013 10

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2012 5

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2011 9

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2010 11

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2009 12

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2008 12

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2007 12

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2006 12

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2005 13

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  9. fobs have a decent range on them
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2004 12

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2003 12

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2002 12

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2001 11

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2000 12

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  5. https://boston.conman.org/2000/08/01
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1999 2

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