According to footnotetoplato, the last time that Ascension day fell on the first of May was in 1913, so getting to post about both on the same day is fairly unusual. I haven't yet been able to discover whether there were any local elections held on that day in 1913, but my guess is not, so it's probably the first time all three fall on the same day, and the last ( Read more... )

It appears that it's been rather a while since I made any post that contains what we usually refer to as 'content'. In a conversation the other day, sir_rosealot was querying the status of the word 'content' in this context, as it was confusing - surely everything is content? Yes, I am trying to include lots of words with 'con' in the title, for no apparent ( Read more... )

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I should be doing analytic topology. Instead I am writing 'Ode to James Martin'. I blame foreverdirt.

More on this later.

85% Dennis Kucinich
84% Mike Gravel
78% Chris Dodd
77% Barack Obama
73% Hillary Clinton
72% John Edwards
71% Bill Richardson
70% Joe Biden
48% Rudy Giuliani
41% John McCain
38% Ron Paul
33% Mike Huckabee
31% Mitt Romney
20% Fred Thompson
17% Tom Tancredo

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

AAARGH and other thoughts of incoherent rage ( Read more... )

The past two days have been bad for going to bed at reasonable times.

Last night I intended to go to bed at a reasonable time, and then stumbled across a link in narahtbbs's livejournal to a piece of Stargate: Atlantis fiction called 'Written by the Victors'. Now, I don't particularly like SGA: I think it was a poor spin-off of SG, but there was ( Read more... )

People! Stop being at the protest and come and post on livejournal about it, damnit!

Completely useless week, this one. Finally managed to cajole myself into actually doing work last night, only to wake up this morning with a splitting headache that felt like daggers behind my eyes every time I moved. Hence the work I did never actually got handed in, and I've missed lecture/class things for the first time this term ( Read more... )

I have absolutely no motivation today. Or, indeed, this week. I think last week and the week before were sufficiently full of difficult, irritating stuff that I spent enough time worrying about it that I've now exhausted my quota for this term. I have three sheets due in tomorrow; I have done about half of one, a few scattered questions on another ( Read more... )