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Portland! Land of... ports!
Oh my goodness, did I love me some Portland ( Read more... ) -
Found in the wild
From statistical physicist Cosima Shalizi's blog, via Brad DeLong. Reposted, as they say, without comment.
One of my friends in graduate school had an adviser with a gift for memorable expressions, at least for a theoretical physicist, especially when dismayed by some stupidity. Two of his put-downs which stuck with me were "I could go crazy ( Read more... ) -
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If I owe you e-mail, I'm not ignoring you, I'm lost in translation!
It's 4AM in my head, and 1AM here in Portland. The hotel says it's hip, and it is, sort of, but in its heart, it's adorable. The "please don't make us wash all these sheets every day" note starts, "Honey, these linens are clean," and in my head I heard wearemany saying it ( Read more... ) -
that's the how the light gets in
A few summers ago, yahtzee63 and I saw a Leonard Cohen tribute concert in Prospect Park called "Came So Far For Beauty." Well, they kept on doing the concert in various cities around the world, and a movie was made of two shows in Australia (very uninventively called Leonard Cohen: I'm Your ManI missed the film's run in NYC because I was on the road, but ( Read more... ) -
Tech stumper
I'm getting sound from saved files, but not at all from streaming media via the web, of any sort.
Has this ever happened to anyone else? Anyone have any idea how to fix it? I'm on an Intel-based Mac laptop, using Firefox (though I've had no luck switching over to Safari.
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what I've learned today
When life gives you lemons, fandom makes a multi-day kerfuffle! -
SG-1/SGA - first thoughts
Just a few of the things I was thinking about watching these episodes, so I don't forget them after I collapse into a well-earned coma sleep.
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Important notice for SGA watchers
Completist SGA watchers will want to take note -- SG-1's episode tonight, "The Pegasus Project," is an SGA crossover, with some cast from Atlantis appearing in the episode.
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