If anyone happens to find themselves in a rush to be able to clear, say, 75 square meters of knee-high grass and ferns, which happens to be sopping wet, and there happens to be no lawnmower or weedwacker available, and the scythe that does happen to be available doesn't do any good because of the aforementioned wetness of the grass, then this ( Read more... )

Our seller freaked out and decided at literally the last minute (pen in hand to sign the final agreement) that she wasn't ready to sell.

Words cannot express how pissed we are.

We bought a gazebo.

Oh, and the house and forest land that came with it.

=)

As sushigrade pointed out last night, the new Dr. Who companion for Series 3 rocks ( Read more... )

Anyone out there with experience running ZpsycopgDA to connect a Postgresql database to a Plone instance of Zope ( Read more... )

This explains me.

That is all.

On my way home from work, I heard a rather staggering piece on NPR.

Being the bleeding heart liberal privileged upper-class American, I have noted that the situation in Zimbabwe isn't far from "everyone but Mugabe is SOL"

and the last couple of days has highlighted the brutality Mugabe's regime has inflicted upon protestersToday's story reports ( Read more... )

Many thanks for everyone's kind words on my/sushigrade's entries. I've moved from bouncing up and down in my living room, to skipping down the sidewalk, to now wandering around in a bit of shell-shock ( Read more... )

I have a job. Like a real, actual tenure-track job.

More later.

Squeeeeee!

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