Aw, sorry, Pittsburgh (and webrat and rani23). Phooey on those Patriots; they've won quite enough Superbowls in the past three years, haven't they? Well, hopefully we'll still be able to open a can of good old Pennsylvania scrapple on their ass in Jacksonville...

Well, dang, the fourth time was the charm—the Eagles are going to the Superbowl. (I can hear the honking and the yelling and the sirens on Broad St. from here; someone on my block was trying to set off firecrackers, but the snow seems to have dampened both their enthusiasm and the fuses.) The next thing I'll be rooting for: the Steelers winning the ( Read more... )

The Eagles are going to the NFC championship game (for the fourth year in a row, having not won any of the previous three [grumble grumble]), and the Steelers are in the AFC championship...anyone else hoping for an all-PA Superbowl? (Psst, webrat—if you root for the Eagles next weekend, I'll root for the Steelers, and hope we see you in Jacksonville ;-D ( Read more... )

Oooohhh, I'm gettin' DSL! At least for 60 days; I succumbed to the lure of an AOL offer for a free trial of Verizon DSL, and I'm pretty sure I didn't sell my soul in the process. I've been wanting to get some kind of non–dial-up Internet access for a long time; I'd been thinking about getting it from the cable company, but never took any action on ( Read more... )

Spent(=wasted) at least half an hour editing/re-editing and running/re-running one of my Perl programs over and over, unable to figure out why one of the steps wasn't getting the right results when all the other ones were; finally realized it was due to the difference between these two things:@ARGV="$TheFile";
@ARGV="$TheFile.tmp";
Ah, the wonderful ( Read more... )

Okay, this is a mystery to me:

1. The back of the upper right leg of my pants is quite damp.
2. It wasn't damp, that I noticed, before I sat on the bus on my way to work.
3. My knee-length coat, which would have been between the back of my leg and the seat, is not damp.
4. Besides, I always check bus seats for liquid, food, gum, mysterious sticky substances, or ( Read more... )

There's a story that's been all over the local news about a truly horrendous crime—I'm going to skimp on the details, but the mostly non-bile-raising short version is that a 15-year-old girl was raped and murdered on Dec. 3rd, and her body discovered on Dec. 30th, not having been treated well in the interim. (Here's a local ABC station story with ( Read more... )

Crosspost from my blog; I didn't feel like doing a different "what's up on the first Monday of the year" post for LJ, but didn't want to not post anything to LJ, either.

Well, I'm gonna go get studied. Tonight I'm going to the Jefferson University Hospital sleep lab to get hooked up to machines and somehow have a typical night's sleep, which seems ( Read more... )

Cross-posted from edwardgorey and my blog—mostly because I'm hoping some of you will pick it up and I can see what your results are :-)


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Semi-crosspost from budgerigars; it's a slightly edited version of my intro post for the community, back on November 19th. I kept meaning to crosspost it in my journal, but didn't get around to it till now. Anyway, I've mentioned my bird in passing in a number of entries, but if you're not in the budgerigars community or a regular reader of my blog feed, ( Read more... )