Wow, what a day this has been ( Read more... )

It took a text from my client to make me aware that none of the email addresses associated with my domain had received any email today at all ( Read more... )

I've found some additional stories in my LJ tappings that completely blast the idea of titling a book of such tales "a baker's dozen" (unless we wish to invoke the rule of "there are three types of people in the world: those who understand mathematical concepts, and those that don't ( Read more... )

The major accomplishment of the day was working my way through a set of instructions on starting with a ordered deck of cards (like what you'd find in a new deck) and end up with the so-called "Mnemonica stack," a concept that will be of no interest to anyone not interested in magic, and about 95% of people who are interested ( Read more... )

Not much to report ( Read more... )

I managed to get the "monster" finished and sent by about noon ( Read more... )

...at the end of the tunnel. Pretty sure it's not a train headlight.

I'm within 500 words or so of finishing the 13,000 word job received a little while ago. More work has come in since then, so it's not like I'll be twiddling my thumbs over the weekend.

Wait...

Also posted at Dreamwidth. Comment here or there.

And found that the Simonides of Ceos who figures in the grand tale describing the "method of loci" mnemonic technique is the same fellow who wrote the words
ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
My favorite translation of this line is
Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by ( Read more... )

Originator sends a document

1. having the same name as the previous version of the document
2. with page margins of less than 0.5 inches
3. with a text size of less than 10 points
4. with tables where some columns are just wide enough to accommodate abbreviations that must be expanded into English to make any sense to the client

Life doesn't get much better than ( Read more... )

My client sent what is likely the last assignment of the year, a 13,000-word monster that will probably take me the better part of a week to complete.

Meanwhile, this evening, I made beef Stroganoff for dinner. I had to make one small change to the recipe that I found, which called for 2-1/2 pounds of beef tenderloin (aka, filet mignon). However, ( Read more... )