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On Vox: House-Hunting: The Game is On!
Late this past July, Giddysinger and I started house-hunting. I reserved a notebook (one of the heavy-covered, grid-ruled types I use for my professional work), and we started doing some web-based research. We began talking to various people about their home-buying experiences, found a real-estate agent online, looking up house and neighborhood ( Read more... ) -
On Vox: It's A Trap!
Something Giddysinger and I have long feared has come to pass. Much of our free time has come to pass, and we are constantly discussing our options with each other, with friends, and with random passersby. It's sadly reminiscent of the doomed characters from this video:
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On Vox: Waiting Game
Mom's about to get hit by Hurricane Ike. The family has determined to "hunker down" as the Mayor of Houston recommended. (Mom's actually in Beaumont, TX, but Houston's the closest reference point for distant folks.) Ike's expected to be a category 3 hurricane when it makes landfall southwest of Houston, and to have hurricane-force winds ( Read more... ) -
On Vox: Lexicon: Dimension
Okay,
this post is going to be a bit lecture-like. Sorry, but I want to establish some terms for future reference, and this seemed like the easiest way to do it. I'll be brief.
One of the physics terms that's often tossed around, and often misunderstood, is "dimension." When I use it, I generally mean the mathematical concept that's akin to "a ( Read more... ) -
On Vox: Stumbled across this
no time to chat.
just watch
Large Hadron (Collider) Rap
yeah, I'm broken.
Originally posted on gkaczns.vox.com
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On Vox: Multiply awkward
Ursula Pearson died of melanoma last Friday. She was giddysinger's godmother and an incredible lady. The last time I had spoken with her was at my bridal shower in February. (By the time of the wedding, she was deteriorating rapidly, and visits were tightly restricted - even for family.)
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On Vox: Renn Faire Opening Weekend
Yesterday I went to the MD Renn Faire with Chameleon613. (I think she has a blog somewhere, but am not finding the link right off...) Flickr'll do for now. We got there just a few minutes past opening, and after a bit of wind-shopping, we ran into The Cat & the Fiddle, who were preparing for a music & morris set:
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On Vox: Two Mitigated Successes
Yesterday and today brought a couple of important successes - although neither was as complete as I had hoped.
On Thursday, I had a "conference call" with the IRS Appeals office. Back in February, the IRS had sent me a note saying I owed self-employment tax for 2005. From 2004 to 2006, I had a research grant from the National Research Council to ( Read more... ) -
On Vox: Horror
I just happened across a news article documenting mass political killings carried out by South Koreans. Not only did the US know about the murders at the time they occurred, but the US helped to cover them up. The whole episode was classified Secret, and the US dismissed North Korean reports of the slaughter as lies. Over 100,000 people died ( Read more... ) -
On Vox: News Update
1. My code at work had kittens. ( I rather enjoy the metaphor for having to split one large, unwieldy block spinning off several smaller, more manageable blocks... the process is messy and somewhat unintentional, and required a fair bit of clean-up. Afterwards, everything will hopefully be reasonably coordinated.)
2. California's Supreme Court ( Read more... )