If you were born in a certain time and place -- specifically, Rochester, New York, in the waning days of the Ford administration -- You can't help but feel more than a little invisible in the endless stream of speculation about the Millennials and how social media transformed what it has meant to grow up in America in their time ( Read more... )

This is a gratuitous "still alive" post. Were this an actual post, I would have something more to say... probably.

Chicago-folk: Anyone or anytwo want to join me for the Lindsay Mac show tonight at uncommon ground (Devon) at 8? Folk-rock'n cello played like a guitar + super singin' and songwritin', occasionally channeling Ani, etc. Also, great dinner stuff and desserts. Carey has *BAND PRACTICE*. Grr.

If you post a post to LJ, and your LJ world has disappeared and/or put you on their "mom-safe posts only" filter due to your incipient creepiness (or for just having not posted for awhile), does it make a sound ( Read more... )

From today's Chicago Tribune, page A8:


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Finally bought a reasonably priced KVM switch today and hooked my home desktop's monitor, keyboard, and trackball mouse up to the extra work laptop docking station that's been locked in a drawer in my cube the last 5 years or so. So, now I have a sorta worky-type place where I can actually work at home. Still need that new desk and chair, tho ( Read more... )

I got sidetracked from useful things and instead pulled a bunch of pix off my cell phone. Now they can waste *your* time, too!

I'm not sure I was built to withstand these seismic shifts in dewpoint. Tuesday morning, the NWS reported that water literally would not precipitate from air in the liquid phase (dewpoint = 26 degrees F). Tonight, at bedtime, a glass of Tab with a single ice cube evinced perspiration (dewpoint = 67 degrees F).

I wish I could just go indoors... to ( Read more... )

European Union fines Intel $1.44 billion for monopoly abuse

They *always* take the cool car and make me be the *shoe*.

Going on hour 13 with this client team's benefits documentation. For this population, the author notes, "cleaned up spacing and grammer from Jon's document above."

I guess she didn't say anything about *spelling*, so points for honesty?