Standing in this empty place, I spend a moment to recount how we got here. I suppose it was a simple question she asked me: "What are your dreams ( Read more... )

I have had this strange feeling of dread, recently. It is a hard feeling to shake but I don't know if it has an origin in reality or just a kind of paranoia I may be developing. I sometimes worry that I am becoming the subject matter for "A Beautiful Mind ( Read more... )

I realize that I so rarely post here, these days, but I am not entirely sure why. I know I post to OA or to my blog on jeffdisher.com (although I haven't even posted anything there in a while, either). I wonder if that says something about me or my life, at this point. I just feel as though I have nothing to say, or something ( Read more... )

I really don't understand why my login sessions on LJ are so short lived. They seem to die after about 24 hours, whether I visit the site, or not. I am pretty sure this problem only started about 2-3 years ago and it was fine, before then ( Read more... )

So, today has been one bad thing after another. Individually, these things would merely be annoying, frustrating, or disheartening but together they combine to make a rough day ( Read more... )

I woke up today to an invite to some poly speed dating event being put on by Poly Toronto. I have no interest in dating (speed, or otherwise) but something caught my eye: straight men could only come if they brought a woman. This struck me in a bad mood because it is yet another example of the division which cuts my will to live to its core. In ( Read more... )

I really don't understand why my LJ login session expires so quickly while others claim that they don't have this problem. I think it usually lasts about 24 hours and doesn't seem to be kept alive by visiting the site. I am sure that they used to be better than this ( Read more... )

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I talk through data compression, explaining the differences between loss-less and lossy compression, giving a brief overview of Huffman coding and Lempel-Ziv, and mentioning some numerical transformations used for special kinds of compression ( Read more... )

At the Cage, tonight, I briefly felt the night speak to me, as it used to ( Read more... )

For those of us who seek human connections, those mages who seek crossroads of immense power (for those who like Crusade), a trip on the subway has an oddly healing power ( Read more... )