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"Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God"
So on takaza's suggestion, this Sunday at 1pm I will be participating in a "Polar Plunge" to benefit the Illinois Special Olympics organization. This one will take place at Fox Lake, which I'm told is still fairly frozen over, so it should still be nice and brisk. If anyone is interested in sponsoring me, there's a page for doing that here. Any ( Read more... ) -
Master of the State Assembly
I haven't been as on top of the various candidates in today's primaries as I usually like to be, so there was a certain amount of last minute cramming this week, and a certain amount of just trusting things like newspaper and bar association endorsements for appellate court vacancies and other races I couldn't quite be arsed to form an opinion on ( Read more... ) -
December 2, 2009
I WILL BE COMPLETELY DISHONEST FOR 24 HOURS... You can ask one question-- any question, no matter how crazy, sinister, lewd or wrong. I WILL answer no matter what and you will have my FULL dishonesty; So don't ask if you don't want to receive a complete load of implausible crap in reply ( Read more... ) -
Speaking of my vacation...
We were in Vancouver briefly last Friday, which happened to be the opening day of the 2009 World Police and Fire Games. While there, we caught a glimpse of a sign for the event featuring these two guys:
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Oh yeah, I'm back from vacation; also old.
First of all thank you to everyone who expressed birthday wishes last Friday or thereabouts. I was on vacation at the time and had little to no internet access, and have been scrambling to catch up at work since I got home Tuesday night, so I'm grievously behind on my LJing. You're all a wonderful bunch of people, and I'm lucky to know you ( Read more... ) -
The Looming Threat Deepens
"Genius Bear" cracks security scheme of bear-proof food container
"But in one corner of the Adirondacks, campers started to notice that the BearVault, a popular canister designed to keep food and other necessities safe, was being compromised. First through circumstantial evidence, then from witness reports, it became clear that in most cases, the ( Read more... ) -
Dust and Volatiles
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Drama Llama
A little while back I was looking for references to provide to an artist for a drawing of a centaur I'd commissioned. It's a long story involving a bad pun, I'll get back to that some other time. While searching the innertubes, I happened across this:
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!Anthrocon Recap
Due to bad timing and sporadic unpredictable work demands, I didn't successfully manage to do much socializing, but it was an okay weekend all in all. Sorry to everyone I'd hoped to get together with, but failed. Weekend highlights ( Read more... ) -
!Anthrocon
I should probably mention that due to a series of unfortunate events, none of which would make a particularly engaging Jim Carrey vehicle, my time off for Anthrocon was pulled out from under me, and I will not be attending this weekend. I'm definitely going to miss seeing a lot of you. For those of you who are going, safe travels, and have a ( Read more... )
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