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10:12 pm
[Link] | I'm about done working on my reddit secret santa gift package. I don't know why I signed up for secret santa. I suck at the holidays on a regular basis and this is an opportunity to fail again, only in public.
( So, what did you get? )
Current Music: Spice Girls -- Wannabe
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07:17 am
[Link] | Sometimes I feel like I'm living in a different world than most of the people around me.
( Read more? There's whining! )
Current Music: Def Leppard -- Pour Some Sugar on Me
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07:22 am
[Link] | More stuff on the mix cd for my mom.
( Progress, of a sort )
Current Music: Greatful Dead -- I Will Get By
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07:49 pm
[Link] | My mom walks to music. It's an exercise thing, it is. She relies upon cd mixes (audio cds) that I generate from my music library. I have a decent sized musical library and I can burn audio cds, which covers my qualifications for generating the cd mixes. I don't actually have any skill at selecting music for mixes but she's not particularly picky and tolerates a wide range of stuff.
( Read more? )
Current Music: DJ Oetzi -- Noch In 100000 Jahren
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06:00 am
[Link] | The weather turned cold of a sudden this weekend. From nights well above freezing and days in the low sixties to nights that top out at twenty and days that don't get above thirty-five -- it's a bit of a shift. It snowed all day yesterday, as it happens, stopped around 5 PM. We have three inches of snow on the ground. Color me unamused. I have to go do sidewalks and shit this morning after breakfast at La's.
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07:21 am
[Link] | Been watching True Blood (season 2) here of late. I could pretend that it's because I'm doing some kind of deconstructionist literary theory thing but that would be lying.
( The reality is less impressive. )
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07:26 am
[Link] | Last night we had Learning for Better Piracy.
( It's not easy being a thief. )
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06:51 am
[Link] | Sometimes my takeaway item from an article is not particularly the takeaway item I am supposed to be getting from the article.
For example, this morning the NYT has an article on female desire here. And my takeaway item? (It will make way more sense if you just go read the damn article first. At least read the first page of the article. Please? Seriously, this won't work if you don't do that.
( So what's the takeaway? )
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07:35 pm
[Link] | Updates on Thief (yes, still playing).
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08:37 pm
[Link] | Busy weekend. Want to know what I did?
( Click the cut. )
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06:51 pm
[Link] | Updates to the Warm and Sunny:
No progress on the slow leak at TA 14 except for a lot of holes in the wall that I will have to fix later. Am letting it leak overnight to see if that makes it easier to tell where the water is coming from. (It leaks about a gallon over the course of a week. Tenant will not be flooded out overnight.)
Rent for Tenant Who Destroys Things is now up to 625 per month, in accordance with the wishes of She Who Must Be Obeyed over on Richard Street. We're also to bill Tenant Who Destroys Things for some of the repair costs for the bathroom, which Willie & Wife got done over the course of a Very Busy Saturday.
Store at SST is not paying own electric -- checked that with fuse panel this AM. Wrote letter to them, mailed it out certified today. Lease says that they are to pay own electric. I took the approach that this was "error of oversight on both of our parts", be sure to pretend that we have an Annual Utility Bill Audit if asked. I waited until they gave us WRITTEN notice of intent to move on 1-16-09, before I asked for $ for back electric bills. My asking is not going to make them move. They already were going to be moving BEFORE I asked them to pony up back electric bill money. At this point, the worst they can do is stick us with seven hundred (or so) dollars of electric bills and move. Since that's exactly what would happen anyway if I didn't ask 'em for the back electric bill money, there is nothing but upside, here.
No progress on Co-Op bank account transfers. I will send out a new letter to appropriate peoples early next week asking for an address where I can mail checkbooks and records.
Bedford Water Authority says prices are going up 66% next year so that we can build a whole new wastewater treatment thing and Save The Chesapeake. People are kind of alarmed about the cost, there. Personally, I'm glad that the government has discovered what is killing the Chesapeake (Culprit: sewage from Bedford) and is taking steps to make it stop. I look forward to the improvement of the Chesapeake's water quality starting shortly after the completion of our new water treatment plant. Blue crabs for everyone!
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09:27 pm
[Link] | Saving for later: ranchogordo purveyor of heirloom dried beans of many sorts. My inner foodie is salivating.
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08:13 pm
[Link] | So Heather and I spent seventy bucks on lunch today. We went to the Springs and had lunch in The Crystal Room.
( Read more? Some history and a foodie review, y'know. )
Current Music: Pearl Jam -- Better Man
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10:31 pm
[Link] | Progress of all sorts.
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02:02 am
[Link] | In the Pratchett novel Thud!, the Low King is talking to Sam Vimes (probably Sir Samuel, as he's all being formal and stuff) about the axe of his father. It's an old axe, has had the handle replaced, many sharpenings, head replaced, etc. Low King asserts that it is still the axe of his father, changing slowly, slowly, to accomodate these our modern times. I thought it was a neat idea, a good concept. One of that style of thing, anyway.
Come to find out today (in a smart-ass article about the britpop group Sugababes) that the axe of his father is one form of the philosophical paradox called the Ship of Theseus. Theseus, as everyone knows, was a Duke of Athens who was going to get to bed Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, after suffering through a Very Bad Play done by rude mechanicals wherein moonshine would be signified by anthropomorphic representation. (See here, about a quarter of the way down the page, where Quince says, "Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns and a lanthorn, and say he comes to disfigure, or to present, the person of Moonshine.)
Or perhaps it was a different Theseus with the ship. Maybe Theseus was the Athenian equivalent of "John" or "David".
Anyway, the point here is that I still get things out of Pratchett novels well past when I've read them. They're nice that way. It's past becoming one of my favorite things about them and is rapidly moving toward being my most favorite thing about them. On a related note, M at work today pointed out to me that the megapode (a critter whose chase is enshrined in UU tradition) is actually a real kind of bird.
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07:44 pm
[Link] | After the stupid baseball hiatus, House resumed last night so I'm watching it today after having let the torrents have their wicked way with my laptop while I was off pretending to work. I slipped back into House like (insert inappropriate sexual metaphor here -- I'd use one of my own but that would reveal more about me than my parents probably want to know).
( Read more? It's not about horses. At all. )
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11:25 pm
[Link] | I have (mostly) completed construction on the faux brick wall triangular jump thing that Trysta has long felt we needed.
( This is kind of *like* crafts, only with power tools. )
Current Music: Pulltab to Kan -- Wonderful Days
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05:41 pm
[Link] | The weather this weekend was unseasonably warm. Saturday was about sixty and Sunday was pushing sixty-five or so. Both days were sunny. On Saturday, I took Nick to a jumping clinic at Bonnie's in Everett. That was educational. I like going on horse outings because they illustrate where the huge gaps in our clue are.
( Read more horse things? No other news inside. )
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07:29 am
[Link] | Rewatching House episodes. There are only two species of poisonous snake native to New Jersey: copperhead and timber rattlesnake. Coral snakes do not exist in New Jersey, a factoid that took me approximately twenty seconds to uncover via Google. Coral snakes only go as far north as southern North Carolina. (Season one, episode Three Stories.) House would totally know how many poisonous snakes were in New Jersey. He says there are three, which is not correct. Yes, ok, it's a plot point, but damn it all... coral snakes do not live in New Jersey, the which I didn't think they did and Google backs me up. (I'd pick apart the medical shit, too, but I know fuck-all on the medical front.)
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11:06 pm
[Link] | I didn't used to think that -3(x-2y-1) + 7x -4 + 8y was a socioeconomic barrier. I mean, yeah, I'd been to college. I knew that Calc 1 was an engineering weed-out class. I'd seen E.G. 50 at Penn State destroy people who were otherwise very qualified to become engineers -- but they didn't see like engineers and so they washed out. I was surprisingly OK with the concept of weed-out classes, when I was young and figured everybody had the same shot at stuff because everybody was just like me and of course the playing field was level. (Ah, the arrogance of youth!)
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