1. I publicly post only things I think are inconsequential. If you want to know what I'm up to, ask me or see about getting friended.

2. I don't automatically friend people who friend me, even if I like them. I usually require putative friends to send me a pound of flesh their middle names. You can comment it in. All comments get screened ( Read more... )

Maybe a new editor will make WP less of a freshwater-economics-pushing misogynist sneering mouthpiece for the self-satisfied.

I can't get it out of my head that "binders full of women" scans perfectly in Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns, and Money".

You know those times when you try to type "Rick Santorum" and you type "ick Santorum" and you go to correct it, but then you think No, that's completely apropos, so you leave it?

crystalpyramid posted about cooking and food security. I thought it was great and I didn't want to dominate the comments with a million self-centered things, so I have made my own post. Even if it's mostly a response post ( Read more... )

Today a man asked me if I was Amish. And he explained that he could hear my accent.

Check out the title.

1. The earth is constantly moving around the sun, so if you stayed the same exact place in the solar system from one day to the next, the earth would have left you behind ( Read more... )

If you want me to derive Avagadro's number from the fact the sky is blue, I can probably do a reasonable job (with access to a couple references) in about half an hour. If you want me to ship something international without specific and explicit instructions, I can probably do a reasonable job(with access to a couple references) in about an hour.

When did things stop being addictive and start being addicting? I can't believe in descriptive grammar here, even if it is technically correct.