I've let a lot of people drift away from me over the years. I moved around a lot as a kid and learned that it's easier not to get too close, because in a year or two you'll be gone anyways. I left Gloucester after high school and never looked back, because I never fit there anyway. I shut out old boyfriends 'cause it just hurts less that way, ( Read more... )

the basement sessions. live set NOW http://pugglewump.org:8000

b1o spins a good set. Check it out if you see this in the next hour or so.

Or tomorrow afternoon, when he'll probably spin again.

I somehow managed to get capsaicin in my eye today. Well, ok, clearly I managed this by making food with hot peppers in it, failing to wash my hands afterwards, and then rubbing my eye. This was cause for brief panic, but the milk eyewash trick really works, as it turns out. It occurred to me at some point during this that an alien species might ( Read more... )

I've been having fun this summer trying to identify mushrooms. I've made my first really solid identification today, a lovely little puffball called Scleroderma citrinum. It was growing in a cedar bog out on Cape Cod ( Read more... )

I completely forgot to call Kiernan for a ride to contra dancing until about 9:30, which is well past way too late. Peh. It's not even like I was doing anything else. Now I've spent the evening bored instead.

Indiana Jones was... fun, but a bit ridiculous even for Indiana Jones ( Read more... )

Somebody went and made every single featured video on YouTube a rickroll.

Also, the front pages for Questionable Content, XKCD, and Dinosaur Comics are swapped.

I'm going to bed. Wake me up when the internet is done with its holiday.

It has been really dry in my bedroom, so Lucky put a big bowl of water down in front of a space heater to create a makeshift humidifier. My cat has subsequently decided that this is the BEST THING EVAR. A heat source, a mattress, and a beverage in the same place? Brilliant ( Read more... )

I am really good at waxing the cat ( Read more... )

Sometimes I listen to music at work, not because I really want to listen to music, but because I really don't want to listen to the music playing in my neighbor's cubicle.