I have a new downstairs neighbor, a thirtyish girl with a small child and a rather hillbilly smile... they seemed nice enough when she introduced herself, though I am not really a neighbors sort of person, I don't have enough time for the people I really really want to hang out with, I generally prefer to be on friendly but not really speaking ( Read more... )

I bought an air conditioner to go in the bedroom window (so we can sleep), and got it home and realized it was made to be put in a window that slides up and down, and the top part of the window sliding down onto it is a big part of what holds it in place ( Read more... )

Without having had time yet to read answers to my last post, I have to say, it only occurred to me somewhere around 24 hours after making it that it could be taken to sound as if I felt I was getting pressured, and that is really not the case at all. No one at SML or in the order as a whole for that matter has ever made me feel pressured to take on ( Read more... )

I like the OTO. Really I do, and I think it's great fun as a social circle, entirely fascinating as a cultural experiment, and most impressively educational in any number of ways. I'm charmed, I'm smitten, I've been dating it for almost four years now and I still enjoy and respect it ( Read more... )

I'm finding the OTO very thought-provoking, as an institution, in large part because it seems to work ( Read more... )

I learned a cool thing from a book: Hanlon's razor: "don't casually attribute to malice what could be the result of cluelessness or sheer stupidity". That's my paraphrase, I'm pretty sure the original was put better. But I like it. It doesn't make the world any less scary, but it does make me a little less cranky.

I got this extra-strange sundew plant the other weekend at the nursery. It grows these leaves shaped kinda like old-style rooftop tv antennas, branching and rebranching at right angles. And each branch is covered with little hairs tipped with sticky little blobs of fluid ( Read more... )

I see lj as the best way I have of being "in the same room with" many of the folks whose ideas I am interested in. I often I find my self wanting the input of others on a given subject, not for social reasons (like affirmation from others or whatever) but because they know things I don't, and think in ways I don't. Or know things I don't and ( Read more... )

So, there are people out there archiving all manner of information, songs and languages and that sort of thing, stuff at risk of getting lost to cultural homogenization. Is anyone out there archiving legal systems? Like, how various different groups go about problem-solving? I mean, I think of it vaguely as maybe something anthropologists would ( Read more... )

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