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[12:36:22 CDT(-0500)] * clown makes notes
[12:45:22 CDT(-0500)] <clown> jhernandez: this looks promising — a way to run shell scripts from within node.js: http://www.2ality.com/2011/12/nodejs-shell-scripting.html
[12:45:46 CDT(-0500)] <clown> maybe this is old news to you.