In case you don't see me around online, it's because my Dell laptop suffered a catastrophic hard drive crash, and I have no idea if or when it'll be fixed.

Just for anybody interested.

So it's my birthday, and you know, things have been going surprisingly well so far.

I just thought I'd mention it.

Okay, so basically.

I lost my cell phone in between 1:00 PM and 1:05 PM PST on Thursday, and I'm pretty sure that in that intervening time, someone found it and took it, because you can't get that far in five minutes ( Read more... )

I've been toying with Alton Brown's risotto recipe lately, and I figured I may as well abstract out a generic risotto pattern. You know, in case anyone thought that this was hard.

Software Specifications:6 cups flavorful liquid : {chicken, beef, mushroom, vegetable, ...} {broth, stock ( Read more... )

Revelation: Nichoume isn't just Nichoume, it's 2-choume. I have no idea why this did not occur to me at all ( Read more... )

The pendant I'm wearing right now, I bought a few months ago in New Orleans. My parents and I were ambling through the hot marketplace and picking through what they had for sale, and I saw a necklace that reminded me of a few people -- a dreamcatcher necklace, because I tend to have bad dreams. Little did I know that all that would be washed away ( Read more... )

I am utterly, utterly, utterly exhausted.

But I am back. And I miss my sister.

You know, I would be the person who runs out of websites on StumbleUpon because I've seen all of the ones relevant to me ( Read more... )

So this whole Queer By Choice thing bothers me, and I have been thinking on precisely why and I think I've hit upon it.

The first is, a lot of people in the Queer By Choice movement seem to go to some effort to undermine the general queer experience of people who aren't in such a movement, i.e. the people who believe that they're not Queer By ( Read more... )

So on Sunday, I went to the Menil Collection, which is a rather interesting and free art gallery, and ambled through with my sister and Jonathan and saw a bunch of 20th-century art. Oh, and also some really long table which had a sculpture on it, which was interesting mostly because it turned out that the really long table itself was also a piece ( Read more... )