Two oddly related items today. First, Sara linked to the rules for a writers’ group she is/was part of. I thought the use of the Object of Shame was particularly brilliant, especially when considered in light of the second bit, which I ran across via a Scott Rosenberg’s Salon blog:
The ceramics teacher announced [...]
Witness the following IM exchange:
me: Heh… I’m hearing celebratory BOO-YAs from the kids across the street.
them: hahahahaha
me: Or wait… is “celebratory BOO-YA” redundant?
I’m old.
This is now officially more snow than I’ve ever seen in my own yard in my life. It’s probably been snowing for an hour or so, and it’s about two inches deep… at least, the snow we left untouched while building our snowperson is. (= We’ll post pictures when that roll gets [...]
Who has a 6.25-inch… stack of textbooks? I do, I do! It must be time for school to start up again!
In case any of you were worried, we’ve been safely home in Portland since about 6ish yesterday evening. We got up at oh-god-thirty Sunday morning and made the trip back in one day. We had it in mind that we’d like to be through the mountains before it started to snow and we [...]
A few random links from catching up on Mister Gaiman’s blog:
Francis Spufford’s The Child That Books Built looks like an interesting book, so I’ve put a hold on it at the library…
Texas housewife busted for hawking erotic toys: I forget that there are still states here in the good old US of A where [...]
So we’re in Auburn, and we were quite pleasantly surprised to see that sometime since my last visit around Halloween, California’s freeway exits finally got numbered. I’d never heard of such a thing until I went to other states and realized that every other state in the country (okay, at least all the ones [...]
The cookies and presents are safely stowed in the trunk, the heaters are off, the neighbor’s kids have been bribed to keep our cats alive, I-5 looks clear in Oregon and California, and I’m about an hour away from picking up my sweetie so we can go spend Whatevermas with my folks in Auburn. [...]
Just got finished watching last week’s episode of NOW (blah blah if you only watch one TV show blah blah), which included an interesting little tidbit right at the very end (scroll to the bottom of this transcript; it’s the last section): the NRA is looking to buy some TV stations.
Apparently the (relatively toothless) [...]
I went to see my accountant today to find out whether I need to pay taxes. Turns out I don’t — at least, not if I go shopping for stuff I could use for business. Darn.
Excellent news in the continuing fight against the Orwellian march of George II’s administration. Court says terror suspects must get lawyers:
Dec. 18, 2003 | SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday for the first time that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba should have access to lawyers [...]
Hey, sweetie, I finally figured out the conditions under which I’d willingly go to Paris. This company offers tours of the city on Segways!
Neat. Seems they’re bringing Asimov’s “I, Robot” to the big screen. Worryingly, however, it (a) is a summer movie and (b) stars Will Smith. Or is that redundant?
(Promo site here, IMDB page here, link via Gizmodo)
So I’ve developed this program for Windows, see, which makes it rather difficult to demo on my laptop, which is a Mac. Enter wireless Internet access and VNC, a program which lets you control one computer from a different computer (as a bonus, it has a full-screen mode which makes it look like I’m [...]
As someone who’s done a fair amount of jobhunting in his life, I’ve long held that December is the worst time of year to try to find a job even in a good economy. People go on vacation, get hangovers at office parties, spend time shopping on extended lunch hours, and generally aren’t interested [...]
I finally remembered to check my grades from last term. The new batch of As brings my GPA up to 3.93… and while it’ll never get to 4.0 again, it’s at least comforting to see it continue its asymptotal approach.
Excellent. Doing the conversion I talked about earlier actually turned out to reduce my install file size by more like 6.7MB, and as desired, it now doesn’t require a reboot. Which means now that I’m done making my program do all the same things it did before with different infrastructure, I can go [...]
It was already pretty cool that yesterday’s mail brought us a gifted copy of the soundtrack to Once More, With Feeling. But this transposition to the Lord of the Rings idiom makes it even better!
(link via Boing Boing)
I miss beef stew, so I was Googling to see if there were some acceptable vegetarian versions, especially one that might help us get rid of some of the beer in our fridge. In the process, I ran across this particularly unappetizing recipe. I present to you Cheeseburger Soup. You may vomit [...]
It takes two different bus lines for me to get to school and back. The most efficient transfer point between the two is in the middle of a busy intersection, right at the end of a freeway overpass. There’s not much to look at other than some extremely expensive houses up on the [...]