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14 miles WSW of Battle Creek...
...was the location of a magnitude 4.2 earthquake that happened in Michigan early Saturday afternoon. Mostly startling rather than damaging, from the bits I've read, but some folks won't be driving up their street for a bitMichigan earthquakes are rare enough that it's getting reported and tweeted about not just all over the country, but worldwide ( Read more... ) -
Geri Sullivan: Girl Homeowner
Replaced the upstairs toilet seat last night. The plastic hinges had broken, separating the lid from the seat. Turns out the plastic had grown brittle with age ( Read more... ) -
I love living in the future: the protest edition
The first hologram protest in history, according to the claims.
Take that, pepper spray!
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Bonus Concert from Minicon!
I just returned to my room a while after the Hugo Nominations announcement from Sasquan. When I picked up email, I found an announcement from Concert Window that The Nate Bucklin Band concert had just gone live, and the email was from 15 minutes before I picked it up. So I'm now watching and listening to Nate's concert and enjoying seeing and ( Read more... ) -
Live at Minicon 50....
...it's SisterTree opening for the Cats Laughing Reunion Concert!
Kudos to Corwin & Dee Brust, Beyond Conventions, Minicon 50, and all who worked on and supported the Kickstarter campaign to make this happen. So good! -
Fanzines from Tynecon III: the Corflu
I picked up or was handed several fanzines and related publications in relation to this year's Corflu. Here's the list, somewhat organized and then re-organized during an edit after posting.
Received the Sunday before CorfluCaroline Mullan and Brian Ameringen arranged Sunday brunch at a local pub on my behalf. Joseph Nicholas, Judith Hanna, and ( Read more... ) -
Link: Dave Kyle at 96
Dave Kyle originally planned to celebrate his 96th Valentine's birthday at Boskone, but was among those who cancelled shortly before the blizzard-bound convention.
This past Saturday, friends celebrated his birthday, and Bill Burns took a splendid photo of Dave. He gave me permission to share the link as well as his description of meeting Dave 50 ( Read more... ) -
My 60-year-old, sleep-deprived eyes....
...just scored a ZERO on the online Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test.
BTW, zero is the perfect score. Age has caught up with my eyes in other ways, but not with hue, apparently.
Either that, or the online test is bollocks, as the tetrachromacy test that's making the rounds following the whole dress color excitement appears to be ( Read more... ) -
Linky Monday
My hovercraft is full of eels - A multilingual celebration -- with a tip o'the link hat to coth, who I will see in just 19 days! (The languages are listed in the "show more" part of the description.)
And how is it that I don't have THIS?!?And for the place I'm likely to spend not-insignificant portions of my week? That'd be pretty much everything that ( Read more... ) -
The end of an era?
Perhaps. MailSteward Pro is 59030 messages into archiving all of my Eudora mailboxes into its database. Thanks for the pointer, pnh! I started by testing the free version of MailSteward on a select number of mailboxes. It archived something in the neighborhood of 34,000 messages and gave me access to 15,001 of those, as the free trial indicated it ( Read more... )
