Capsule of thoughts: The Middle Eastern revolutions and rebellions are inspiring. But they will probably make my life harder. But I don't care.

Here's my breakdown of this line of reasoning:

Inspiring: It's impossible not to be inspired by huge numbers of human beings trying to seize control of their own destinies. They are likely to do stupid ( Read more... )

So CNN is quoting the Wikileaks documents in their reporting now-- in fact, in this article on Mohamed Tantawi, they hardly do anything else. One paragraph of lede saying who the guy is. One paragraph for a quote from an American military official. Three paragraphs of capsule bio and service record. *Eight paragraphs* dishing up the dirt from the ( Read more... )

My friend eredien is looking for someplace to live. In her own words:

Hi! I'm a 29-year old queer genderqueer woman looking for someone to ( Read more... )

( You may find this depressing, although I didn't. )

For the first time evar, I'm playing the role of the grown-up householder this holiday, and giving away candy. I think I'm trying to buy karma, as well as trying on one of the more trivial and easy adult responsibilities. I think the reason that I've never done this before is principally that I've never previously been willing to let strangers peer ( Read more... )

For my own notes -- an article on resilient gardening. Paging John Robb, white courtesy phone. I'll probably end up buying these guys' book.

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Mike Van Winkle, a spokesman for the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center, [...] explained the surveillance of peaceful protesters opposed to the war in Iraq like this: "if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that's being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that protest. You can ( Read more... )

Quick addition to the previous post: the LED flasher circuit that I dug out of the Brit Box seems to flash from 1-4 times, then pause. Some example number sequences: 3 4 4 4 1 4 1 1, 1 1 3 2 4 2. Any thoughts about that, folks? I am painfully ignorant of math. Now I see why I shouldn't have dropped the subject in grade 10. :) Also, there are three ( Read more... )

( Largish image; more electronics neepery. )