What have I been doing lately ( Read more... )

I went to mad planet! And danced! To music! There may have been some drinking of Old Fashioneds. And dancing! And girls in very short skirts! Not me though, I wore a long skirt. A high waisted long skirt, and got asked if I was a librarian, because I was wearing glasses also. Whee ( Read more... )

As an Asimov fan from way back, I am delighted to hear about positron science. For sheer cool words, as much as anything. Dipositronium! Positronium condensates! Our robot overlords must be imminent ( Read more... )

I was so disappointed as a child to find there were not whole onion-like layers of unknown-to-me swear words past things like bitch, shit, and fuck ( Read more... )

The cheap duct tape was enough, helped by a blanket draped over one side ( Read more... )

Will the cheap duct tape be enough to keep the snake from making another midnight escape from his eating cage, or should we have used the good duct tape, or even the gorilla tape ( Read more... )

Jocelyn: That expression looks like it's time for bed ( Read more... )

I am hypothesizing that there was drinking and/or a bet or two behind the terminology of this paperAlthough I am mildly disappointed, as it seems it is only one type of stuffing instead the apparent horizon instead of of multiple levels or ooh! some sort of recursive method (would that be at all usefull?), which would *really* justify using " ( Read more... )

I got a new Leatherman multitool last week - the Juice CS4. Simply "a" leatherman, perhaps, as it is not replacing anything but the ghost of a youthful swiss army knife long lost. Anyway, people have been asking me if I've used it for anything ( Read more... )

I'm still a little discombobulated, and had been planning to post more notes and random impressions (like how Australians don't seem to slow down at all on sharp corners, and how koalas move more like chameleons than anything I was expecting, and how awesome platypuses and wombats are), but I felt I should at least make some mention of being back. ( Read more... )