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I'm going to try blogging here and see how it goes.

I'll continue to read my friends and communities on LJ, though.

While I'm not as down on LJ as some people are, I have been feeling a little discontent with it lately, and the recent Facebook Beacon fiasco only adds to my wariness about big social networking sites. So I'm considering moving my blog to another site, and I'm wondering: anyone out there have anything to say about wordpress.com?

Nope. Not gonna take it.

Added: Oh, and also: Nor this.

I've had my MacBook for about a year and a half now. I'm not big on extended warranties most of the time, but for a laptop? AppleCare. No question ( Read more... )

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Edited the next morning to clarify a few points.

I did it again. Bought a clarinet on eBay. I can't possibly pretend I need another one -- I have three soprano clarinets already, and I've only used one of them the past several months. This one I bought pretty much out of curiosity. It's a Mazzeo system clarinet; I've never seen one in the ( Read more... )

Well, I've seen Comet Holmes again, tonight. The sky was clear enough in the early evening to get a glimpse -- an hour later it had clouded over in the east. But the comet was a very different sight than it was ten days previously. It's gotten bigger, which makes it more diffuse, and the Moon is in the sky, washing everything out. So what was ( Read more... )

Finished, first of four dinosaurs:


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We haven't had many clear nights lately, and on what few we've had I've forgotten to go out and look. It was mostly clear tonight, though, with a day old moon, and the next several nights are forecast to be cloudy. It was, in other words, possibly our last, best chance. Kenny and I went out in the driveway with a pair of binoculars and saw Comet ( Read more... )