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I just noticed that the foil collar around the neck of this bottle of Magner's is textured very much like Perlin noise.
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Wearing green
Listening to a Pogues,etc. station on Last.fm
Corned beef cooking away in the crockpot
Magner's chilling in the fridge
Soda bread ready to go when I get home
Saw the Flogging Molly concert* last Tuesday, but hey, that's pretty close, right?
Yup, I'm totally ready for St. Davy's Day.
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So I don't have a music collection on my office computer, and my iPod has been not especially functional for like 2 years, and our firewall locks down suspicious random connections like streaming radio. So I tried Pandora again, but it's still kind of clunky, not very good at getting the music I actually want, nor at letting me skip past the four ( Read more... ) -
Except for today, when it's just missing
They moved the sun. It's not hard to tell; every day I go to work and it's there, in its new place, startling with its blinding rays coming from an unexpected direction. It's as plain as, well, the sun in the sky ( Read more... ) -
For a radiant and slightly glistening lady
April March is the cruelest month, breeding
Hopes of spring out of dead hearts, yielding
Mudthaw and desire, pelting
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Intercon I
That was a really fun weekend. Every year at Intercon I seem to play fewer games - that'll be hard next year, as I played two micro-games, slept through one normal-sized game because I completely misread my schedule (I'm still rather surprised I did that), and left the other one I'd signed up for after it... failed very hard ( Read more... ) -
More I in an IDE
Sparked by some comments by sml, I return to an idea that's been bouncing around in my head: an IDE that truly integrated with source control. It's useful that many modern IDEs help you with checking projects in and out, but mostly they're just taking the place of some other SCM client. There are three ways in which I think an IDE can leverage its ( Read more... ) -
Sword and fire, crouching for employment
Yesterday we went up to Endewearde for The Tourney of Love. It was a good time, with not many people I knew well but quite a few nice people that I'm glad to have met and to have spent more time with. And, largely in reaction to events like Birka and Twelfth Night that I had had no real interest in at all, I wanted to go to a classic SCA event, in ( Read more... ) -
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I guess it's been bouncing around for a while, but since it's new to me, today's word has been
Glibertarian
You probably know a couple. If not, well, good for you. -
Whoops
So, at the moment if I search for anything at all on Google, all the results are marked "This site may harm your computer", and can only be accessed by editing the address bar directly ( Read more... )