In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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- Evil Neighbor Blues
- My grandfather is doing fantastic
- Update on Housing Demolotions in Bangalore, India
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- Update on Alfred Natkin from Cape Cod Hospital
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WTO, NAFTA, & now TPP are not about trade or even US exploiting other countries, but ultra-rich robbing us all.
Mon, 2013/04/15 - 12:24am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
"Intuit has spent about $11.5 million on federal lobbying in the past five years" fighting free, simple tax filing
Sun, 2013/04/14 - 11:30pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
A great living fight for democracy is taking place now, do not let blackout make you doubt, nor lies make you neutral.
Sun, 2011/02/06 - 12:54pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
A good summary of the people's view from Egypt (by an authentic journalist stuck abroad, Noha Atef)
Sun, 2011/01/30 - 4:35pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
A sign outside the subway station, "No Disabled Allowed," we would denounce, but that's the reality. http://lb.cm/jodyequality
Fri, 2010/12/17 - 12:06am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Another reason advertising does not deserve police protection: myriad labels hide oligopoly
Mon, 2010/11/22 - 2:35am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
A Vegan No More via @stephthegeek –i believe every word. But yes, i'll remain vegan, as i have for 7 years.
Sun, 2010/11/21 - 11:53pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
The most frightening election result: US loses its best senator, Russ Feingold- outspent 12:1 (wild guess), plus white people
Wed, 2010/11/03 - 12:29am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Everybody, please, everybody, listen to this - Annie Leonard tells us how we can fix everything.
Fri, 2010/10/29 - 10:25pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
In US law, corporations have individual rights (speech, property) but are not liable for murder. Gates of hell: wide open
Tue, 2010/10/26 - 9:44am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan make a terror attack more likely - http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/15-5
Fri, 2010/10/15 - 8:13pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Matching funds will mean corporation-funded candidates won't be the only ones we hear in Mass. Governor's race democracydays.com
Tue, 2010/09/21 - 5:36am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
News is what matters. Sadly, evil or stupid media can make news of what shouldn't matter. See
Sun, 2010/09/19 - 8:51am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
via @DJColburn ban e-cigarettes, keep the real killers? @intlvapersclub Dr. Siegel's re FDA Warning Letters
Tue, 2010/09/14 - 4:36pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Power again! Fixed 2007 MacBook Ebony's MagSafe DC-in with ifixit.com part for 3 days, $200+ off Apple store cost.
Sat, 2010/09/11 - 7:58pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
The gendered insanity of children's toys IS one of the few social problems that make me want to break out the dynamite.
Wed, 2010/09/08 - 8:52am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
fixed our wooden gate today. Neighborhood (except for oil deliverer) safe from pit bull! Went well once i got a hand saw...
Sun, 2010/09/05 - 7:41pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Fox News: Evil or stupid in spreading anti-Muslim hate? [link in comments]
Tue, 2010/08/24 - 3:30pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Creative process roadmap: "It's not too late. People need potatoes." http://bit.ly/ams27R via @royscholten @reeze @sitcomgeek
Fri, 2010/07/09 - 9:04am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
happy last hour of the anniversary of the last day of British oppression!
Sat, 2010/07/03 - 11:37pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
at #ussf2010 Detroit tech house helping out with http://www.ussf2010.org #Drupal site
Tue, 2010/06/22 - 12:09am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Niger Delta oil spills: every year, worse than the Gulf spill: http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/05/niger-delta-oil-spills-in-persp
Sun, 2010/06/06 - 2:26pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Everyone read today's XKCD and go outside. http://xkcd.com/748
Wed, 2010/06/02 - 8:53am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
my bad habit: reading a backlog of twitter or fb statuses, opening shrt URLs into new tabs, and having no idea who posted what.
Sat, 2010/05/08 - 6:00am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
moving from one street to another in Brooklyn, just got a $130 ticket for allegedly not wearing a seatbelt (i was). #nyfail
Thu, 2010/05/06 - 8:19pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
called out as crazy, starry-eyed dreamer, by a Cuban woman, translated by an Argentine man, because i wear a bandana on my wrist
Sun, 2010/04/25 - 2:56pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
thank you Dries and Acquia: http://buytaert.net/drupal-commons-meet-jive-software - Jive needs its jive talk answered by Drupal!
Thu, 2010/04/15 - 2:14pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
divest from companies engaged in war crimes; stand with those who stand not just with their own but with all humanity:
Wed, 2010/04/14 - 6:03pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
discovered good eyesight all the work of left eye; right eye is freeloading capitalist. Need eyepatch to make it do its share.
Sun, 2010/04/11 - 3:08pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
OMG it took me five minutes to figure out why the sun feels SO GOOD today-- never felt it on my scalp before #buzzcut @poxyd
Sat, 2010/04/10 - 2:36pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
US gov't tackles over-imprisonment by releasing informant who assisted in known murders while on payroll - http://bit.ly/bPEK12
Fri, 2010/04/09 - 7:03am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
is getting a hair cut. Big deal!
Thu, 2010/04/08 - 10:30pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
rocking out to Regina Spektor and about to either write a book chapter or turn over the garden. One of those.
Wed, 2010/04/07 - 10:14am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Agaric's secret weapon, the German programmer, sysadmin, and Drupal heretic Stefan Freudenberg, has arrived.
Tue, 2010/03/30 - 10:45pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
on equinox, on 7 years of war on Iraq, walked with 20 people to remind town we're occupying a couple countries and ruining lives
Sat, 2010/03/20 - 3:40pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
listening to a recording of a consulting call, it's so painful to hear myself pause to think that i wish i said um more!
Tue, 2010/03/16 - 3:06pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
glad house is on high ground, but temporarily changing friendship goals from people who grow food to people who build boats.
Mon, 2010/03/15 - 7:57pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
thanks all for birthday wishes on Facebook (it's like it told you!)- helps keep e-mail under control as life stays crazy & good!
Fri, 2010/03/12 - 8:34pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
do fewer things; do things better; do better things
Sat, 2010/03/06 - 1:59pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
invites all without dinner plans or a desire to break them, within travel distance to Natick, to late dinner @ 33 Fisher tonight
Fri, 2010/03/05 - 7:32am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
danced in living room to Beatles' Twist and Shout and Ray Charles' Do You Love Me waiting for 'git add' massive old drupal site
Wed, 2010/03/03 - 11:10pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
lost e-mail and instant message (Thunderbird, Adium stopped being visible yesterday); expected productivity gains did not occur.
Mon, 2010/03/01 - 11:28am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
not for me (agaric remains a collective!) but any Drupal shops looking for a remote / Boston based relentless developer?
Sun, 2010/02/28 - 10:55pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
concludes that power steering in a Honda Insight was never necessary anyway
Mon, 2010/02/22 - 1:27am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
code executes in unexpected ways during dream state
Fri, 2010/02/19 - 5:51am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
is in high demand on the karaoke circuit. It's on twitter! Twitter wouldn't lie, would it, @ahasaetharu?
Tue, 2010/02/16 - 3:56pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
ran 18K 'cause 3 friends training for 5K & @anjalifp did another 15K like before breakfast- trying to match but fun route longer
Sat, 2010/02/13 - 5:31pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
on late train that was to be express to Boston: "This is the local train; the express is right behind us." One track #mbta #fail
Fri, 2010/02/12 - 9:41am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
has four new agile project management books and no time to read them. Hmm.
Sat, 2010/02/06 - 9:43am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Rest in peace, Howard Zinn, for we promise not stop working for justice. http://historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html
Wed, 2010/01/27 - 9:26pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Donate where it helps - http://mlncn.com/node/1486 - groups in Haiti with a history of good work and a good sense of history
Tue, 2010/01/19 - 8:13am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
just got go-live approval for (part 1 of) the project that ate Agaric. Waiting for traffic to thin out before leaving Cambridge.
Fri, 2010/01/15 - 7:22pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Haiti, world's test case. Indomitable people overcome coups, economic war, now earthquake; we all can make it.
Wed, 2010/01/13 - 11:05am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
note to the MBTA: if you don't want passengers hanging on your locked doors, don't pull out when they're running up the platform
Tue, 2010/01/12 - 9:24pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
went sledding the first three days of 2010. Missed a day. Will have to go twice today to catch up.
Tue, 2010/01/05 - 5:42am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
last status meant no new year's eve plans. 2010 plans include work (Agaric / Drupal) and a better world (Visions Unite / PWGD).
Fri, 2010/01/01 - 9:02pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
has no New Years' plans which perfectly symbolizes his limitless possibilities!
Tue, 2009/12/29 - 2:29am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
unilaterally wishes Merry Christmas unto most of his friends from the safety of having already finished with Chanukah
Thu, 2009/12/24 - 8:51pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
considering taking vitamins in honor of Casimir Funk... and a couple months of steady hair shedding.
Wed, 2009/12/23 - 5:37pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
dashing through the snow, pulling cars out of ditches and moving trees off roads and giving transport with a 4-wheeler!
Sun, 2009/12/20 - 2:50am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
older brother Jake and girlfriend Sarah just replaced the Celtics jacket that Drupal rockstar quicksketch lost in Paris-- 2008!
Fri, 2009/12/18 - 8:05pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
working on devilish details of a site upgrade from my brother's log palace in West Virginia- nephews should arrive home soon!
Wed, 2009/12/16 - 6:57pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
pulling an all-nighter from Lazo's Tacos, 2009 North Western Ave, Chicago, Illinois. The Drupal must go on; veggie burritos help
Mon, 2009/12/14 - 12:54am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
on train to Drupal Camp Chicago via visits in Syracuse and Rochester with @hefoxed - have room in Evanston thanks to @ceardach!
Tue, 2009/12/08 - 7:29pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
ever wonder if a Drupal node had more path aliases than you see on the edit page? no? if you ever do: http://bit.ly/8IMHA4
Fri, 2009/11/27 - 7:38am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
thanks the world for unfairly good treatment and hopes to give back
Fri, 2009/11/27 - 7:26am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
will come up with a great word for each letter of his name for the next time it needs to be spelled over the phone
Wed, 2009/11/25 - 6:12am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
attending #massgtug #wavehack and trying to figure out how to bring Drupal into it
Sat, 2009/11/21 - 12:04pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Chicago or bust: Drupal campers vote today for the how-to-contribute-to-Drupal session http://bit.ly/53eOWL and I'll be there!
Fri, 2009/11/20 - 6:56pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
washing dishes after a nice party, after almost being arrested for stalking driving for groceries, after a solid day of work
Fri, 2009/11/20 - 3:10am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
calls a dinner party for this Thursday (tomorrow) evening at the Natick abode just because it is time
Wed, 2009/11/18 - 2:34pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
keeps wandering outside to look for this meteor shower. Will have to be content with good work and cooking.
Wed, 2009/11/18 - 2:52am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
One Man's Plan to End Poverty: Tuesday evening at Harvard, Brooks House, 1 Oxford St., 6:15 p.m. OR 8:30 p.m.
Mon, 2009/11/16 - 11:52am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
WHOOOO! I said that was my kind of party!! Talking dancing singing; cooked 2nd round of food at 2 a.m. Just got to Grandpa's.
Sun, 2009/11/15 - 11:03am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
to my kind of party: host hopes South Asian community, anti war, and Latin America solidarity activists will learn & join
Sat, 2009/11/14 - 3:16pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
shouldn't've slept & should've been more productive awake. Happy Armistice and Veteran's days, will celebrate with nonstop work.
Thu, 2009/11/12 - 7:39am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
still has the house all alone for a couple weeks and if it is still standing at the end will consider those weeks misspent
Tue, 2009/11/10 - 11:41am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
in Cambridge for D7CX: The Drupal 7 Contrib eXperience, making modules upgrade-ready. Somerville cops have my van. #parkingfail
Sun, 2009/11/08 - 11:29am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
wonders if partying on 2 hours sleep after crazy busy week is smart, hiding in a back room doing Drupal until it gets going
Fri, 2009/11/06 - 8:55pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
thanks Drupaller @aellison for sending a #googlewave invite on my behalf! If anyone knows what it is about I'm ben.agaric there.
Tue, 2009/11/03 - 9:02pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
HAS Google Wave but needs to invite an important person to use it! Anyone know how to get there or have an invite to share?
Mon, 2009/11/02 - 11:40pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
spent the extra hour on Facebook... on people and pics from an awesome wedding! Congratulations Manda and Rich!!!!
Sun, 2009/11/01 - 8:11am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
needs Chinese lanterns and money plants for Saturday- anyone have any dried, or know a field that still has them in New England?
Fri, 2009/10/30 - 9:00am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
has the house alone for a month. If it stays standing something's being done wrong. Party/visit/housemate suggestions?
Tue, 2009/10/27 - 12:29am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Hondoran resistance to counter coup's fake election: ballot boxes to let majority support a new constitution http://is.gd/4zypF
Sat, 2009/10/24 - 12:55pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
older brother and his girlfriend's car stolen while they collect signatures to keep smoking in the local WV bar #surreal
Sat, 2009/10/24 - 12:48pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
Twitter and consequences: http://friendsoftortuga.wordpress.com/ Defend free speech and the right to assemble
Sat, 2009/10/24 - 3:23am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
sees golden-orange locust trees against a darkening sky; seagulls, gilded too, on their bellies from the sun below, fly behind.
Thu, 2009/10/22 - 5:35pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
looking at the locust trees, glowing golden in the setting sun, outside my grandfather's window in Wellfleet
Thu, 2009/10/22 - 5:23pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
loves fall in New England: a Sunday of SNOW, and then warm sun and gorgeous golden trees today. OT: RDF is in Drupal now!
Mon, 2009/10/19 - 9:00pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
heard Zoya of http://rawa.org/rawa.html speak, RAWA fights Soviet, Taliban, US usurpers in Afghanistan since before we were born
Sun, 2009/10/18 - 2:35pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
spending Drupal Event Singularity weekend (tip @msamye - Montreal, San Francisco, Vancouver, Hudson Valley) working RDF
Sun, 2009/10/18 - 2:33pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
home! -- where the recycling guy likes me -- in New England! -- where it is doing a credible job of snowing this 16th of October
Fri, 2009/10/16 - 8:00am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
back in the United States of America and filling calendar with Drupal work
Tue, 2009/10/13 - 6:44am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
had new experience of hearing last name pronounced correctly over a P.A. system... thanks Montreal for connecting flight wake-up
Tue, 2009/10/13 - 6:37am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
@ianforberpratt didn't explain status but shared first attempt at awesome video reflecting awesomeness of @anjalifp
Sun, 2009/10/11 - 2:55am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
wishes @anjalifp good health and good speed in the Chicago Marathon today!!!
Sun, 2009/10/11 - 1:42am — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
is terribly curious about Ian's IM status
Sat, 2009/10/10 - 12:20pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
spent a pleasant day @brightlemon office in London working (fruitlessly) on RDF and comment entity loading
Fri, 2009/10/09 - 12:48pm — Benjamin Melançon- Login to post comments
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