At 2 PM on Friday afternoon, one of my friends called me. She'd made group reservations at supperclub 2 weeks ago for that night, and two of her party had cancelled on her. Did woody77 and I want to join her? No, we'd never been, and yes, yes we did ( Read more... )

I'd just like to say:
SNOW!

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One of the good things about having cooking as a hobby is that no matter how busy things are, I still need to eat, which means I can still pursue my hobby, within reason. I can't make things which take a long time, but that just adds a little spice to the game. Making delicious food fast makes me happy, and knowing how means I'll never again ( Read more... )

WHEEMUTHAFUCKERWHEE!! *splat* *thud* ow...The Expanding Your Horizons conference was this morning. (a.k.a., for those who have not been playing the home game, "Let's convince teenaged girls that they want to go into science and engineering, and in the case of my workshop, programming".) I thought I had the workshop all (well mostly) laid out as of ( Read more... )

I need an simple example of self modifying LISP code from which I can learn and go forth and do evil. Google is being uncharacteristicly unhelpful. Do any of you know of such, or for that matter a repository of good LISP examples period? The future of the world (ok, just this quarter) depends on you!

School proceeds apace. The extra couple hours a week less work does, in fact, turn out to make a big difference, as does having the side project for Aaron's company taken off my plate. (Ashamed though I was to not finish it, one of their programmers had time to work on it, and it's a big stressor gone.) Still on my plate, though: 10 hours a week ( Read more... )

Public service announcement: to whoever just text messaged my phone, and to anyone else who's considering doing so: the callback number functionality doesn't work on my phone, so if you text message me and don't sign it, I will have no idea who you are, and won't be able to call you back. Deepest apologies!

1. Because tomorrow is Valentines day ( Read more... )

I'd been planning on avoiding this meme, but since it's clear that a manual is required...

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An old and sorely missed friend has a new name, I see. That's excellent, I've been SEVERELY jonesing for my Cannibals in the News fix. :)