OK, I rarely (never) post and seldom visit LJ any more these days. But that doesn't mean I welcome spam comments added to my existing posts. Is anyone else having this problem, or is it just me?

I suppose on the bright side, it least it gives me an excuse to log in and delete the spam.

Even though I pre-supported the Reno bid, I'm very sorry to hear that the Seattle committee had to pull out of bidding for the 2011 Worldcon. We would have been happy to attend a Worldcon in either city; obviously Seattle would have been much more convenient, and probably cheaper (at least as far as travel costs) for us. Still, from what I knew I ( Read more... )

Life has been very interesting lately. I won't go into details other than that I am now completely unemployed, and I can't seriously start looking for work until we return from Venice (although if you know of something, let me know). And since I hadn't posted for a while, I thought I'd start providing some progress reports. ( More after the cut )

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I just learned that Peruvian singer Yma Sumac has died. My parents had a copy of her album (literally, an "album" of 45s in a box) "Voice of the Xtabay" and I grew up loving her astounding voice, not to mention some of her fantastic "Inca Princess" costumes. I used one of her recordings as music for my presentation "The Explorer's Surprise" in ( Read more... )

Go to YouTube, search for the year of your birth, and then post a video from that year.

Mine: Television - It's Ready for You

On Sunday, Greg and I were running around working on cleaning out his dad's apartment at the assisted living home (Joe Sardo passed away on May 17). We had a few other errands to do that day, but cut a couple of them short in order to make it home on time to watch the NASA channel's coverage of the Phoenix landing ( Read more... )

A few days ago bovil posted a meme that I couldn't resist trying:

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