To the all-too-seldom-seen-but-always-appreciated
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A cloud hung over BayCon for me this year. I got word the night before the con that Bob Asprin had died. I think I was somewhat in shock on Friday. I did wear some red and black (even mundanely) all weekend in his honor. I think that it was the numbness that shock gives you that let me get through one of his songs that night at the open ( Read more... )

Today was a day to go outside and just marvel at the sunset ( Read more... )

This company is still tweaking the formula and has been using feedback from those who have been buying the early versions (betas 0.2, 0.6 and 0.74 have been mentioned ( Read more... )

While a bunch of you are going to be having fun filking up at Conflikt tomorrow, I'm going in for dental surgery. As you can guess, this is NOT my first choice on Things I Want To Do, but that gets trumped by Things That Need To Be Done ( Read more... )

I became eligible to donate blood again in mid December.  My last donation was around Labor day, a Double Red donation (deferral time afterwards is 16 weeks instead of the usual 8 weeks).  I usually try to donate at the holidays because demand is up (traffic accidents are up) and donations are down.  With a choice between Christmas and New Years I ( Read more... )

We just had an earthquake here, and it was one of the strongest I've ever felt. That could mean it was small and very close or large and further away ( Read more... )

In making mathematical proofs, sometimes one makes a particular type of error. I seem to remember that there was a Latin phrase for it (or maybe Greek?), but I'm coming up blank.

In English the error is "Accepting as given, that which was to be proved".
Can anybody come up with the phrase I'm looking for?

 Lee Gold asked in rec.music.filk and I thought I'd spread the request a bit further afield:

Is anyone here familiar with Marieke Oudejans and
the "popular Dutch television show" that seems to
be coming to Loscon?

(also posted to FILK)

I don't generally do a lot of nagging, but if your local blood bank is like mine, it's critically short on blood right now.  I went in earlier today and gave them a Double Red Cell donation.  Twice as many red cells as normal, but they give you back the plasma and other stuff.  Of course, now I can't donate again for 16 weeks instead of the 8 week ( Read more... )