In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007

Melançon Enterprises • a multidivision multinational since 1980

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  • do fewer things; do things better; do better things
  • invites all without dinner plans or a desire to break them, within travel distance to Natick, to late dinner @ 33 Fisher tonight
  • danced in living room to Beatles' Twist and Shout and Ray Charles' Do You Love Me waiting for 'git add' massive old drupal site
  • lost e-mail and instant message (Thunderbird, Adium stopped being visible yesterday); expected productivity gains did not occur.
  • not for me (agaric remains a collective!) but any Drupal shops looking for a remote / Boston based relentless developer?
  • concludes that power steering in a Honda Insight was never necessary anyway
  • code executes in unexpected ways during dream state
  • is in high demand on the karaoke circuit. It's on twitter! Twitter wouldn't lie, would it, @ahasaetharu?
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  • John Melançon's life
  • Evelyn's Page
  • PWGD.org
  • AgaricDesign.com
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Recent blog posts

  • You only have to reach 99 people.
  • we arrive to genuinely question authority but find ourselves in relative isolation - another implied plea @pwgd
  • VisionsUnite tonight: what's happening right where you are right now
  • Reading White Oleander; to care and be strong? ...a little more at the link
  • Power imbalance is inefficient
  • Venezuela & Building a New Society from Below talk with Julio Chavez, Noam Chomsky, and Michael Albert
  • May people no longer easily fear entire other groups while trusting our own power-mad elites
  • Israeli Government Destroying Lives In and Out of Gaza for Years to Come
  • Vigilante murders of black men in New Orleans after Katrina
  • Influences
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Front-paged Notes

  • on the treatment of women and occupation
  • The Intelligent Opposition to Equality
  • To Do and To Bring lists
  • The Galway Hostel is bad, Snoozles hostel in Galway (right next to the bus station, on Forster St.) is good
  • VisionsUnite must by default make sure the people who should see a post do see the post
  • Spicy concoction of all the vegetables that had to be cooked
  • Wisdom is the ability to distinguish your business from what's none of your business.
  • Tent town in Providence!?!
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Journal

  • Confused For Elise for Pachabel's Canyon today
  • 2010 March in text messages
  • Andrew cooked me egg substitute
  • Saturday shift
  • What it's like to be me: 30 minutes of a morning
  • Talking day
  • The outdoors is incredibly beautiful
  • 2010 February in text messages
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Favorite Quotations

Being insanely busy has its advantages. I sound smarter, because I can't write as much.

— Benjamin Melançon (someone tell this guy it doesn't always work)