The end of the decade seems like a good time to close chapters that have been left open and forgotten, and this LiveJournal seems like one of those.

On March 5th, 2002, I wrote: "So I seem to have a LiveJournal. Whee! I should go do work now, rather than spending an hour customizing it. :)" I did go do work, rather a lot in the past 17 years, and ( Read more... )

Today I learned: You can set up instructions for what should happen to your Gmail account (and other Google accounts) in the event of extended inactivity. Doing this while you are alive is substantially easier than the process that your next of kin would have to go through to get access to the account in order to find all the loose ends to tie up ( Read more... )

Last night I went on a YouTube walkabout, as one does, and came across rather a good bit of music I liked that needs some more sharing.

I started with a recommendation from someone on Gallus Rostromegalus's Discord, for Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq's "I've No More F***s to Give. He's an exceedingly dapper gentleman with a banjo/ukelele-cross, and the ( Read more... )

Because planked possum was one of the things I'd heard about from my dad growing up, I assumed it was a cultural thing that "everyone" knew about -- or, at least, everyone with vaguely similar cultural background. Thus, I was really surprised at the paucity of results I found when I tried a Google search to find a context link for a reference to ( Read more... )

( In which I produce a reasonably tasty dinner out of what is in the kitchen and a fair bit of luck. Also in which I grumble about recipes that use almost homeopathic garlic quantities. )

My watch has started losing time, which I'm fairly sure means it needs a new battery ( Read more... )

Most of this story is just setting up context ( Read more... )

This observation brought to you by the feeling of hearing the cat making an odd noise on the kitchen counter, and looking over and seeing her spread out most of the way up the window screen with no other means of support.

Crossposted from Dreamwidth (original here), with
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The first couple of days of the long weekend were mostly full of inertness; apparently I needed it. But today I wanted to get something done, and so after lunch I took a piece of paper and stuck it to the fridge with a "Strong Like Bull" fridge magnet, which gives a very satisfying "thunk" feel to posting a list on the fridge, and wrote some ( Read more... )

This morning I did an hour-long class on OnShape, which is a modern spiffy CAD (computer-aided design) program that runs in your browser and stores documents in The Cloud and does all the heavy computation on the server side. It's pretty cool, and they have a free license for hobbyist use if you don't mind all your designs being public ( Read more... )