I never gave too much thought about Heifer International, until recently, reading a few criticisms of their work. Many of them are along the lines of "Why donate things that are just going to be slaughtered?" and "Meat is a really terrible way to solve hunger." These criticisms seem to suck, for a few reasons. One is that HI's work isn't, "Here's a ( Read more... )

national novel writing month: going well. i like this. much revision necessary, but it's coming along.

shoo wee shoo way!

I'm finally settling into Northampton - been here for six days without leaving! Awesome! No more nomad-ery!

Lovely lovely.

Plus, finally, new bike day.

Shenanigans.

Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize. It strikes me as premature. Like when bands get famous before the play shows or record songs.

On September 12th - was it? - having distributed the last of my belongings in Brooklyn among helpful nearby friends, I packed the last of my crap into a bag and headed toward New Jersey, and then the next day to upstate NY for several days, for a job ( Read more... )

I haven't been on here in a while.

That's okay.

But I still miss the days when a bunch of us folks used LJ to keep in touch.

My boss's 10-year-old (or thereabouts) daughter has been in the office a bunch lately and she's totally an awesome kid. Plus, she loves my sparkly purple bike, and asked me all sorts of interesting questions ( Read more... )

good thing to spend money on: glasses and contact lenses. it's time. i made an appointment ( Read more... )

I woke up to learn that my laptop had conked out: "Fan Error." With a little bit of googling I came on instructions for dismantling it and replacing the fan ( Read more... )