When one governor declares Confederate History Month without mentioning slavery at all, it sounds pretty bad, but there's a slight chance that it actually was a mistake, and I prefer to give the benefit of the doubt.

When a second governor does the same, after the first became a national news story and involved a presidential rebuke, and then ( Read more... )

This is why I love my Nexus One: an HP48 emulator!

Oh, man, I loved my HP48 in high school. It was big and bulky, though, so I could never really justify carrying it around afterward high school, when I didn't really need it as much. Now I can emulate it on my phone!

Heard a bang, sounded like a gunshot.

Looked around, realized the clocks were off.

Went outside. Neighbor had called the power company. He pointed out the stiff squirrel at the bottom of the power pole.

He offered me a set of old indian clubs; he'd seen me juggling on the lawn last summer.

Thirty minutes later, power was back.

There is so much wrong with all of this that I don't know where to start; I'll just let the quotes do the talking.Lindsey Van holds the record - among both men and women - for the longest jump off of Whistler, B.C.'s normal ski jump, built for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. The 25-year-old skier trains six days a week, 11 months a year and has been ( Read more... )

Watched the Leonids last night. It was pretty cool; I saw a half dozen meteors or so, including one really big one that left an afterimage for a couple of seconds (possibly two in parallel; it was hard to tell). Too cold in Vermont at 2 AM in November to stay out for all that long (and I had work in the morning, so needed to get to bed eventually ( Read more... )

Telling Court He's Gay, Mob Informer Crosses Line - New York Times
“He didn’t want to make an announcement to the world,” said one person with knowledge of the case who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the dangers facing Mr. Mormando. “He wanted the judge to know what risks he took - why he wasn’t just your average cooperator, someone ( Read more... )

I'm trying out Dreamwidth, which is a new site based on a fork of the LJ codebase, and has a stronger commitment to diversity and being open and honest with its users about its policies than the current LiveJournal management. They are alos trying to do better about implementing user-requested features, rather than more features for advertisers, ( Read more... )

You know, I've seen a bunch of cases recently in which people have completely and totally failed to apologize, and in fact while in the process of failing to apologize, have managed to dig themselves in deeper. This seems to especially be a problem when someone is called out for making women or minorities feel uncomfortable ( Read more... )

I am so proud of my state! First state in the nation to allow gay marriage by a legislative vote and not a court decision.

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=10143110http://www.wptz.com/news/

trilobites and I are in the Boston area this weekend. Anyone want to hang out? We're thinking of checking out the Roadhouse BBQ in Brookline tomorrow night, the new place opened by the owners of the Publick House. Or anyone want to go out for coffee or the like Saturday or Sunday afternoon?