Thanks, everyone, for the kind words about Niobe.

As james_nicoll has observed, sometimes in a multi-cat household you learn surprising things about a cat only after she's gone, and in this case, it's that she was probably eating more than half of the food consumed by all three of our cats. Her thyroid troubles may have been a contributor ( Read more... )

Today's procedure was a very short one, just ten or fifteen minutes of actual work. When I had the metal screw inserted into my jaw, the oral surgeon stitched up the gum tissue over the top of it again, so that I just had a toothless space in my gums there. Now that that's all healed up and the bone has presumably fused with the screw to some ( Read more... )

I got They Might Be Giants' new album this morning and have listened through a couple of times. At times it seems almost like a retrospective of TMBG's many familiar styles and gimmicks: the first song, "You're On Fire," is almost a sequel to "You Probably Get That A Lot" from Join Us; later there's a political song from Flans ("Black Ops"), a ( Read more... )

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Our cat Niobe died today, aged about 15. She'd been increasingly frail for a while, with a thyroid on overdrive (which we tried to control with drugs) and low energy, and today it became clear that it was time for her to go.


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Well, the 2012 election put to rest once and for all the idea that Americans will never vote to legalize same-sex marriage. In that light, it's interesting to compare these two maps from Wikipedia:

Legal status of same-sex marriage in the US, by state
Public opinion of same-sex marriage in the US, by state

Public opinion is way out ahead of the ( Read more... )

A week ago, I went back in for the latest phase in my dental implant surgery. This had been originally scheduled for tomorrow, Jan. 17, but they gave me the option to pull it back about a week; I guess a hole opened up in their schedule, and maybe I'd seemed to be recovering well from my October bone graft when they took the sutures out in November ( Read more... )

So all sorts of fascinating, often infuriating drama has been going on with The Pinball Arcade, Farsight Software's classic-pinball simulator. As of last night, both of the famous tables with media licenses funded from successful Kickstarters, Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation, are out on iOS and Android and, I think, Macintosh, and ( Read more... )

So a few weeks ago, I got a bone graft in eventual preparation for implanting a false tooth directly into my jaw ( Read more... )

Something very strange is currently happening with NOAA's storm-surge model ( Read more... )