The thought of going to Vista fills me with horror, but I'm having a hard time justifying the insane cost of a Mac desktop...I wish we could just get a new 'previous generation' box with a decent discount...
And no, I'm definitely not going the iMac route.

Why the hell don't adults get the fun, tasty vitamins???

I recently started 'sponsoring' a woman in the DRC through Women for Women Intl. and I got my welcome packet today with details about the woman I was matched with. They threw in some facts about the DRC, mostly depressing shit I've heard before. They also mentioned something to the effect that the average woman's income is $0.20/day. I was reading ( Read more... )

Went to what was apparently the only William Gibson reading/book signing in Texas. My first one (I don't count the few that I accidentally wandered into). The mike failed almost immediately and there was, of course, nowhere to sit, so I quickly got a pretty fierce backache. Almost wished my belly was sticking out more so someone would take pity on ( Read more... )

Хочу хачапури!!!!

Amazon is giving me the "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" finger.
I feel so unloved.

In January, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has come out with a new recommendation: every woman, regardless of age, should be offered amniocentesis, a test previously reserved for women of 'advanced maternal age' (over 35) and those who had other indicators of possible fetal abnormality ( Read more... )

"Those 20 envelopes won't shake up German democracy."
-- A spokesman for Deutsche Post, Germany's postal service, on the inadvertent issue of stamps bearing the image of Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's former deputy

I'm too lazy to Google, but how the bloody hell do you inadverently issue stamps???

I'm bored and no one seems to be reading my LJ (judging from the lack of replies to The Big Announcement).
So...
Ask me a question. Any question. You can ask it anonymously.

Happy Mother's Day?