Successfully sent the big package of tax information off to our accountant ( Read more... )

The more you make Dilbert like a human being, the more terrifying he gets (link to SMBComics, not Dilbert.)

Bonus points for panel 6, where you finally realize which coworker Dilbert physically resembles.

In a fair number of circumstances where onions are being used as "vegetable filler" and for texture (around a pot roast, in a soup, stuffed in a turkey,) celery is a really good substitute. You can also do something like celery root, but... Almost anything has more flavor than long-cooked white onions. Even celery is more assertive. Other veggie ( Read more... )

Did I post that we finished our arbitration hearing about the second construction company? We did. Don't have results for a week or two yet, but the sit-in-a-room-all-day-presenting-evidence portion of the program has concluded ( Read more... )

"Why Does Dating Men Make Me Feel Like Shit?"It's a great article. It's worth the read. It's not the kind of basic "men suck" article you might think from just the title. She thinks through a number of consequences of what she says - though she doesn't have an answer, just a question ( Read more... )

Came back from our first PantheaCon. It was enjoyable, somewhat weird, and mostly as-advertised. I think? Anyway, it was very good ( Read more... )

Huh. It's not often I'm slapped in the face with an idea that changes my mind hugely on something social-tech-related ( Read more... )

Being a patron of the arts is weird on the Internet, but it's all kinds of not dead.

Today, the Kickstarter for Sunless Skies went up -- it's the sequel to Sunless Sea and to Fallen London (formerly Echo Bazaar), those weird games about "what if Hell bought London in the 1800s, took it underground, and the whole Victorian thing never went away but ( Read more... )

This is sort of making fun of World of Warcraft and its quests and writing. It's sort of making fun of how people are inherently awful. And it's sort of a Screwtape-Letters-style seduction of good by evil, narrated by a World of Warcraft imp familiar, who would usually be taller than this ( Read more... )

Some weeks, I'm very productive. Some weeks, I'm home with my family and mostly that's enough.

This has been that second kind of week. I'm feel pretty okay with that, right at the moment.