The day after Christmas, I was walking down to the main drag to buy too much discounted candy, and I found a Christmas stocking on the ground. I presume someone was loading or unloading a car, and dropped it. Mostly to be helpful, partly to be amusing, I hung the stocking on a low fence surrounding the adjacent yard, and continued on my way. When I ( Read more... )

I'll join a community, and at first it's great, but as time passes and I see how well everyone gets on with each other and how little any of it has to do with me, how it feels like a closed palisade of friends I have nothing to contribute to, I'll grow increasingly unhappy and lonely, until I want nothing to do with it anymore.

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[Apologies to the three or four people actually following my journal. I've alluded to this rant, but until now saw fit to keep it out of your way. Now that tumblr has credibly dismembered itself, it seems relevant enough to post ( Read more... )

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I have finally imported my LJ entries to Dreamwidth. The only reason I didn't do this sooner was that I resisted accepting the new terms of service. I just didn't want to click that button until I was absolutely ready. I'm doing this now because I've reached a tipping point of frustration with Twitter and its Web 2.0 cohort; and my hope, unlikely ( Read more... )

I wrote this during the Bush administration:

The year is 2003 ( Read more... )

Currently reading an anthology(?) of two novellas by Russian siblings Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The novellas are Roadside Picnic and Tale of the TroikaThe context of this publication interests me as much as the content. The book came out in 1977, and is part of Macmillan's "Best of Soviet Science Fiction." The 1970s were the era of détente, ( Read more... )

I just finished In Our Time, a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. In general I enjoyed them and was impressed by them. Their brevity helped. I'm going to list my disjointed thoughts here ( Read more... )

The sky was really interesting and I wanted to take a picture of it, laying on the ground so I could get a lot of it in along with the scenery. I wanted to get a friend of mine into it-- I liked the contrast with her long black coat --but she wouldn't stay in one place. There were these ads for a company looking for repo men; instead of a flyer, it ( Read more... )

A Soma cube made from origami. I worked on this project in between other models, because it involves a lot of folding and quickly grew monotonous. I was really more keen on having a Soma cube than making one from origami, particularly. But I was quite satisfied when it was finally done.
After doing the test piece, I decided the way to go was to ( Read more... )