I don't do politics. And I won't make this a political space. But this struck me today, since I deal with a largely very conservative family:
But meanwhile, kindly reflect: if you support the war on terror, then you're also supporting a policy that has brought concentration camps back to the western world. (Charlie Stross)
I guess being Better ( Read more... )

It has now been 8 weeks since I quit smoking. After the first few days of crawling-skin, edgy, everything-is-irritating misery, it hasn't been too bad. Remarkably, I felt notably physically better almost immediately, which helped enormously ( Read more... )

November 2 is National Celibacy Day:

No Dick, No Bush.

(I can't take credit for this, but I heard it yesterday, and had to pass it on.)

I had resolved that I would quit smoking August 1st. There were lots of fortuitous indications that it was a good time for new beginnings, to turn over a new leaf (or discard old ones, as it were). So I burned the last cigarette in my possession on Saturday at 3:30 PM.
For four days, I wrestled with the (now familiar) withdrawal, and the ( Read more... )

I'm currently reading Nightfall, by Isaac Asmiov and Robert Silverberg, and the following passage jumped out at me (said by Theremon, on page 246 of my paperback copy): "He had long ago decided that no worthwhile woman could ever be seduced; you could present the possibility to them, but you had to leave it ultimately to them to do the seducing ( Read more... )

One of my best friends (pkos) lives over 2300 miles away, and though we communicate constantly, we've only met "in the flesh" (no, not that way) twice in the two years we've known each other. Needless to say, we're both fairly good at expressing ourselves in written language. He's better at writing conversational dialog than I am (and somehow manages ( Read more... )

So, I finally succumbed to peer pressure and started a Livejournal. I had looked at a few different ways of hosting this myself, both manually editing raw files, and a couple of small packages of cgi scripts. But the one thing I couldn't match is LJ's community and "social network". So here I am ( Read more... )