• My former Peace Corps colleagues seem to be congregating around the idea of a "Friends of Cape Verde" group...um, yay? I respect the idea, and I would like to see it succeed, but I can't imagine what they're going to be doing with it. The dues seem so low ($20 per year, with probably never more than 50 members in the best of times) that they would ( Read more... )

So I lost the last vestiges of my Florida residency.....just got my DC voter registration in the mail yesterday, just in time to completely disenfrachise myself from the upcoming congressional elections ( Read more... )

Details should refine and clarify the pertinent issue, never obsure it ( Read more... )

Three drops of bleach, two pinches of salt, and one palmful of sugar....mixed into one tall glass of water ( Read more... )

Three drops of bleach, two pinches of salt, and one palmful of sugar....mixed into one tall glass of water ( Read more... )

Photos from Anna and my trip to Ecuador.



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• I just installed OpenOffice, and am currently basking in that wonderfully mischievous feeling one gets from sticking it to the man. Or, I suppose in this case circumventing the man....with a rather clunky and industrial-looking product that is probably not much better than the man's own product, and is hamstrung by a conscious emulation of the man ( Read more... )

I tried to fire one of my clients today...one of the freelance contracts I was working on outside of my day job ( Read more... )

Confession: I sometimes get very annoyed at Windows' trying to shirk the blame for software failures. No, the document didn't fail to print, you, Windows failed to print the document. Take responsibility! The nature of documents isn't to spontaneously print themselves, printing is something that must be initiated from the outside...I didn't fail to ( Read more... )

Making good on my debt to temperedpassion and linandraLeave your name and ( Read more... )