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Sooooper Geeeenius.
One of the persistent geek intellectual fantasies is that of the lone genius showing their fully-formed brainchild to an astonished and adoring public.* Being a geek who has fallen to the allure of this particular myth more than once, I get it. No one wants to look stupid in front of their peers (Humans! We are them!), so there's this urge to ( Read more... ) -
The Phone Stack
lifecollage and I were out at brunch today, and we decided to play a version of The Phone Stack Game:
Rules: lifecollage and mangosteen's house rules for the Phone Stack Game ( Read more... ) -
The Promise of a Boundary
Eli's Law of Professional Services: Keep your promises, and set your boundaries.
Even More Important Corollary: Know when you're making promises, and know when you're setting boundaries ( Read more... ) -
Well, that could work....
Observation: There is a real gap between "that's not supposed to work" and "that won't work".
Accurate gauging of that gap is the secret to a great many successes.
Inaccurate gauging of that gap is the source of no end of mystified failures. -
5:3, plus some yeast and salt.
In the continuing effort to transcend the stereotypical culinary roles of my gender (breakfast foods and grilling), I've decided to learn how to bake things ( Read more... ) -
Andy, Vince, and a steel guitar.
Being a connoisseur of weird song covers, it's pretty hard to faze me with "Did you hear that they slammed X into genre Y?"
That being said, nothing prepared me for Erasure putting out a live album full of country covers of their own songs.
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A unique opportunity....
It wasn't too long ago that I was informed of my choice to go into training. It makes sense now, I suppose. High empathy scores on the Rosenzweig scale get you banned from casinos. *Really* high scores on the Rosie get you a visit ( Read more... ) -
Hello! This is a message for....
Wheels down, turn on the phone ( Read more... ) -
[politik] No conflict.
At first blush, it's a bit hilarious that Gingrich is a "Family Values" candidate, given his questionable personal record on that whole marriage thing. How can someone be such a hypocrite and manage to win the South Carolina GOP primary (which happened about 15 minutes ago, as of this writing)?
The answer? There's no conflict. Take a look at a ( Read more... ) -
Width or Widthout You
A while ago, I created an account over on dreamwidth with the same account name as this one (i.e. mangosteen.dreamwidth.org). I don't know if I'm going to migrate any/all things over there, but I wanted to see what it's like on the not-DDos'ed-by-Russian-political-issues side of the fence.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled schedule.
