[Cross-posted from my MovableType Blog]

Dear USPS:

Look, I know things are busy for you right now, so you probably won't even hear my cries over the din of all of the mail you're processing, however I have two comments:

1. "package tracking" != "delivery confirmation!" Please stop trying to confuse the issue
2. "Express Mail ( Read more... )

[Cross-posted from my MovableType Blog]

For once, I'm using that metaphor for something positive!

After a most delectable Thanksgiving dinner[ *], I contemplated the carcass of the bird and said "We can't just throw that out," (You can take the boy out of New England, but you can't take New England out of the boy) "I'll ( Read more... )

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The plethora of emotions this brought to the surface was a bit surprising, actually:

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Unfortunately, I can't find one from the "correct" perspective.

Represent, yo

(via Play this Thing)

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I'm sweaty, smell faintly of smoky beeswax, and I have (mild) first degree burns on my hands and forearms.

I also feel giddy, and more centered than I have in a long time. Even though pretty much everything I tried failed, most of it spectacularly.

[Cross-posted from my MovableType Blog]

I just suffered a strong sense of cognative dissonance this morning reading David Byrne wax poetic on Justin Timberlake's Madison Square Garden concert [about 2/3 of the way down, "JT on HBO"]. I would have assumed . . . Well, I would have assumed that he was as closed-minded as I ( Read more... )

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RSS is a long, protracted exercise in letting go.

. . .And a constant reminder that I need more practice.

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I just listened to the following, meme tags never end up with a list this good:

"Five Man Army" - Massive Attack
"Don't Stop Me Now" - Queen
"Down Under" - Men at Work
"The Dead Heart" - Midnight Oil
"Parsec" - Stereolab
"Cecilia" - Simon & Garfunkel
"Stretch Out and Wait" - The ( Read more... )

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The first thing I noticed about the paperback copy of The Code Book that I picked up recently was that it just felt wonderful: the cover, the inner page paper, everything. This is the most tactilely satisfying book, paperback or otherwise, I've had in very long time. I believe this ( Read more... )

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[For the really impatient, you can just skip straight to dessert.]

I've been remiss, but work has been Crazy! A few of you already know this, but for those that don't:

Chiara and I took part in an event ruse last Saturday. She has already ( Read more... )

[This entry is in reference to Swiftly Satirical. And was originally behind a rather severe filter.]

I just need to keep telling myself that in a little more than 30 hours this will all be over. One way or the other.

Last night I had the second worst stress dreams I've had in memory. It all centered around my sleeping through the event ( Read more... )