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Last Livejournal Post
As of now I'm doing everything through Facebook. I might change my mind again later, but I have an easier time keeping everything in one place. (If I do move again later, I'll post about it on Facebook). I'm not sure if the feed links here will work, but they're the best I could find:
Profile:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=508606449Status ( Read more... ) -
Christmas List (Hi Mom!)
Stuff I want for Christmas:- An alarm clock that makes a bright light rather than a loud noise
- Nice stereo headphones (so I can watch a movie on my laptop on an airplane)
- Black macbook power adapter
- Warm socks (yeah, I'm gettin' old)
- One or two of those solar powered car window fans
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“Ordinary Election”
Joe lieberman on Meet the Press this morning, said he crossed party lines to support John McCain because “this is not an ordinary election.”
I'm going to guess that by “ordinary” he means one where there is so little at stake that it doesn't matter who we vote for, and I don't think we ever have had or ever will have an election like that. -
Really long post
Last weekend I visited to Maryland, flying in and out through DC Reagan Airport. I had planned to play tourist in DC for a bit just before leaving, but got behind schedule and had to go straight to the airport. I've been to DC once before, when I was dancing in the ACDF finals at the Kennedy Center. That was in 1998, just a few months more than ( Read more... ) -
Progress
Yesterday I noticed that I can't read the signature lines on my checks anymore. I suppose my vision is deteriorating just about on schedule. I should need reading glasses in another 20 years or so, or maybe there'll be something else by then ( Read more... ) -
Emo
Some thoughts inspired mostly by Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo
I'd be interested to see any numbers comparing the suicide rates of “emo kids” with other groups of adolescents. I wouldn't be too surprised if they are a little higher, but I doubt being emo is the cause. Rather I expect that adolescents already at high risk of ( Read more... ) -
AVG vs. Firefox
Grisoft recently released version 8 of their AVG Free antivirus software for Windows, which includes some new features intended to protect against some threats you might encounter while using your web browser. Unfortunately, enabling those features makes Firefox 2 unusable - at least, it does for me, as of the first time I open a Google search ( Read more... ) -
Stupid Award
Sorry, no virtual ribbon, but here's a Stupid Award for Comcast, for their recent mishandling of my email account.
About a week ago they changed how I needed to connect to their outgoing mail server, without bothering to let me know in advance (stupid #1).
When I first asked about why I couldn't send any mail, their first response was that I must ( Read more... ) -
Billion
I was trying to think of a way to make a billion mean something tangible.
By my estimate, if you live for 100 years, your heart might beat somewhere around 4 billion times.
Also, I'm getting close to one billion seconds old.