Some real updates will follow when I'm not so busy. For now, though, I'm just trying to get rid of stuff in preparation for my move. And, procrastinator that I am, I've put it off until the last minute. Anyway, here's some stuff (mostly books) that I'm intent on getting rid of. If you live in SoCal and are willing to come get it, it's yours. ( Read more... )

Um... hmmm.
This is.... hmmm.
Well, *I* thought it was worth 22 minutes of my life to watch this. I make no promises that you'll feel the same. I'm sure some of the people reading this will find it entertaining or... something....
http://www.scifi.com/amazingscrewonhead/

( A Sudoku Curiosity )

I've been off traveling this last week. My brother and I have accompanied my mom on her annual driving trip back to visit her family in Texas. This includes stops in Plano to see her father and brother Mark, and San Antonio to see her brother Alan. This year, my brother Keith drove back to Texas with her, then I flew in to Dallas to accompany ( Read more... )

For you Mudders who've moved to colder climates...
(thanks to porfinn for finding this)

EDIT: To give you all an idea of just how observant I am not.... Cj found this page while doing a web search for snow chains for my car. No idea how this came up high enough in a "snow chains" search to get noticed. Anyway, she forwarded it to me, I was amused, I ( Read more... )

So I got one of these little legal notices in my most recent credit card statement. Normally I just glance at them and toss them, but this one was about a class action suit brought against Citibank, so I decided to read it and see if I was going to get a piece of the pie. I got as far as this bit and gave up:
( Yes, it's all one sentence. )

( What an exciting life I lead... )

I'm not usually one for passing along stuff I get in my in-box, but....
watch me

There follow three random, unrelated things that I have recently found noteworthy in my life (or, at least, felt like babbling about):
( The End of Cerebus (Part II) )

So went an infamous graph theory problem some years ago... and so it went today while playing level 4 of Planarity. This game is not hard at level 4, but this time I was stumped! After having no luck for about 5 minutes, I thought maybe I'd just missed something obvious, so I hit "Shuffle Vertices" and tried again. After a second failed effort, ( Read more... )