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sympathy, please
As it would cost more than the value of my car to fix its transmission, and I don't NEED a car, anyhow, living as I do in a bike-friendly community, I have made the monumental decision to donate it to charity ( Read more... ) -
Dear flist
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Now the thrilling conclusion
So, my day-before-Halloween costume was "The Specter of Communism." I was thinking of it kind of like a Dickensian/Marxist Ghost of Communism past ( Read more... ) -
why conceptual costumes don't always work
25 points to the first person who can guess what my costume is.
Hint: "Soviet Mime" is not the answer.
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Recent Discoveries
Last week I watched the most amazing episode of NOVA, on the subject of epigenetics. Fascinating stuff-- and fortunately, PBS has an archive of sorts on it here: Ghost in Your GenesAnd speaking of archives, I googled myself (just first and last name, no middle initial or anything) the other day for the first time in over a year, and was amazed that ( Read more... ) -
Everybody's on YouTube
and evidently, so am I.
This was a few months ago. I didn't know I was being taped when I was reading this "scary" story. And I didn't know until yesterday that it had been posted on YouTube ( Read more... ) -
a summary kind of post.
So I've been back in Davis for nearly three months. It's been good- I love my job, my apartment is much more spacious and comfortable than the one where we lived in Ann Arbor, I really groove on getting around everywhere on my bike. The weather's great. I like being close enough to my family that I went to visit them a few weeks ago, and was able ( Read more... ) -
reading meme
everybody else is doing it so why shouldn't I?These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to ( Read more... ) -
Another Tuesday
My Tuesday nights are about one thing only: Trivia Night at Sophia's (if you thought I was going to say "House," that's kind of right-- I'll be taping it, and probably will watch it tomorrow). We've got a pretty regular game going with a few teammates (trivia teams can comprise up to 6 folks- any more than that and we'd be penalized), and we tend ( Read more... ) -
christening my crock pot
Today I cook an entire chicken, which I have never done before ( Read more... )
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