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Just checking...
Hmm... still people here. -
When did I become a Russian?
I just logged in to LJ, and got a Russian-language form to fill in. Still, here I am. -
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Regent Book Sale on Friday.
I have stuff on LiveJournal I don't want to lose, and they're now erasing accounts that have been inactive for two years. So... -
Would a true geek freak?
I think I should feel concerned. My avast! antivirus program has, up until very recently finished each run by telling me that it has tested somewhere between 305,000 and 310,000 files in however many folders and found 0 infected files. I have run it three times today, because it is now telling me that has tested 78010 files in 6256 folders, and ( Read more... ) -
The Last Post?
I've reached the point of pointlessness where LiveJournal is concerned. Everyone's gone to FaceBook. My sister Cathrine rang me yesterday morning, to see how JB was-Anna is one of her FB friends. I told her that she (and others on FaceBook) are probably more up to date with Anna's news than I am, even though I see her every day. I have a ( Read more... ) -
...again, or, instead
Okay, I invented enenēkosioienenēkontaenneamania on the analogy of hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. But of course the hex word refers to the number 666, six hundred and sixty-six, and the mild hysteria that surrounded June 6, 2006, which was probably largely media-inflated ("Okay, guys, there's got to be a few looneys out there making a stir about ( Read more... ) -
Enenēkosioienenēkontaenneamania
Tomorrow is 9/9/9. Last chance of writing a three-digit (truncated) date in the lifetimes of most of us. Next one is 1/1/0. (Don't think I ever did write 0 for 2000.) -
Depending on which Wikipedia article you read...
I just found out that we're in the same taxonomic suborder (Eupelycosauria) as Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus. Apparently we're closer to the Dimetrodon, which means that Dimetrodon is more closely related to our Permian ancestors than it is to the Edaphosaurus.