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RIP Thomas M. Disch
Thomas M. Disch committed suicide in his apartment.
Wikipedia article on Disch
Excerpts from a 2001 Locus interview
Alan Bostick's blog entry on Disch's death
I'm not finding anything from any news sites yet.
Edit:
Obituary on Locus Magazine website
Cory Doctorow's obit on BoingBoing (Thank you, Twitch!) -
PSA
If you have friends on vacation and want to text their cellphones, it would be kindest to refrain from doing so between 11PM and 8AM wherever it is they are. -
If you're the kind of person who prays in some sort of manner
There's a cat named Spot who could use some prayers right about now. -
Well, f*** you, too, Logitech!
So my trackball that I'd had for over 10 years flaked out and died on me earlier this week. It was a Logitech product, and I'd been able to configure the buttons just the way I wanted them ( Read more... ) -
Today's definition of "obnoxious"
Driving a yellow Hummer in the left lane, 5-10 MPH below the speed limit. -
How to get skunk smell out of a dog's fur
1 qt. hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda
1 tsp. dish liquid (the kind you use for washing dishes by hand)
Mix the above ingredients right before use. Later up dog with the mixture, let sit 5-10 minutes, rinse. Repeat.
The worst skunk smell any of our dogs ever ended up with required only a 2nd bath with this, and not a 3rd. -
Linky goodness!
Download free books!
And I figure just about everyone on my friendslist has already seen An Engineer's Guide to Cats (YouTube link, video is approximately 7 minutes), but just in case, I thought I ought to share the link.
Edit: Just for you cat yodeling fans, I have added a "cat yodeling" tag to this entry. -
Wedding bouquets
When I was 14, I was a "junior bridesmaid" in my cousin's wedding. What this meant was that my sister and I got to wear bridesmaid's dresses, a different color from the ones the regular bridesmaids wore (and theirs was kinda teal, ours were ivory, I was a little jealous, but we were cute, anyway), be in the wedding procession, and just stand there ( Read more... ) -
A note on friending
1) If I have met you IRL, and you friend me, I will probably friend you back.
2) I don't friend more than 1 person per day. Day = midnight to midnight, Central time zone, if you needed my definition here.
3) I have been friended by 4 people (Edit: Make that 5) in the past 36 hours. I intend to friend all of them back, but it's not going to ( Read more... )