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The cats
The mouse that the cat brought in to the basement was still weakly shuffling along the floor after I chased the cat away. I wasn't sure whether it was more merciful to kill it or to put it outside, but it was way too cute to kill, so I put it in the shed under the pile of sticks. It wasn't actually bleeding anywhere I could see, so who knows, ( Read more... ) -
A small moment of found tragedy
A few days ago, a mostly-deflated helium mylar balloon declaring "You're Special!" showed up on the ground near my morning bus stop. After a couple days of seeing it sit there, I finally sighed and decided to throw it away myself. I picked it up, and as I was deflating it, I noticed that there was a ( note attached to the string: ) -
Blast from the past
This last Sunday, 'Club Floyd' (a group that plays IF games collectively on a MUD I frequent) played my own game, "The Edifice", a game I wrote when I was in grad school in 1997. This game, and the article I wrote about it, turned out to be instrumental in getting me a position at the UW years later as a post-doc: Mary Kuhner, my new boss, had ( Read more... ) -
Valentine's Day
For Valentine's day this year, I ( sang Sara a song I wrote ) -
Icon meme
I got halfway through the followup post about my cat dying and stalled, so while I'm working on that, here's a stupid meme.
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Hong Kong
The conference I was at is done, and now I'm off ( exploring the city )