If you normally post to LJ from a client, check out the buttons when you post from the web interface today. "Processing whining..."

Lois McMaster Bujold's next book, Hallowed Hunt, is now available for pre-order holds at the Seattle library. (It's scheduled to come out at the end of May.) King County doesn't seem to have it listed yet.

Headline of the week: Candles recalled because of flame risk. Article here.

From ubiquity, a New Scientist article on "13 things that do not make sense", including the placebo effect, dark matter, tetraneutrons, and the Kuiper cliff.

And finally, an Angst Technology comic for all the goths and gamers- because gods know there aren't any of those around ( Read more... )

My office is in the International District (Chinatown). Of all Seattle, we have the highest density of good restaurants within easy walking distance.

So for the IT departmental lunch, why do we bus and walk two miles, through driving rain and unusually heavy winds, to eat mediocre barbecue?

I've had a borderline migraine all day. This sucks.

I can't wait to go home and lie down for the rest of the night. Hopefully our wireless will be working better than it has been lately.

Why LJ went down

Another customer in the facility accidentally pressed the EPO button, then depressed it, replaced the protective case, and left the building.

Brad is being very kind here. It should read:

Another customer in the facility "accidentally" opened the protective case, pressed the EPO button, then depressed it, replaced the ( Read more... )

Global dimming: why global warming is having less effect than expected

You know, this could also be why seasonal affective disorder is on the rise.

After so many of you have taken it, my lemming tendencies won. So here you go:


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Neil Gaiman writes in his journal, "Henry Selick... will be making an entirely stop-motion version of [Neil's book] CORALINE (all stop-motion, like his most famous film, TIM BURTON'S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, which some people mistakenly think that Tim Burton wrote or directed)."

Now there's a movie to get excited about.

Last time I moved, I changed my address with the DOL (WA's DMV), and checked off the box that said "update my voter registration". This was around March. I never got any confirmation that they'd changed my voting address, so I was a little concerned. However, since my mail still forwards from the old address, I figured it wasn't a big deal, and ( Read more... )