APPARENTLY, Snert's school thinks that because I'm going along on the 8th-grade weekend trip to NYC to be her medical aide, that means she can't have hotel roomies from among her classmates ( Read more... )

I'm graduating from Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science this week, and I want to celebrate with friends!  So people who want to celebrate with me are invited to Mary Chung's in Central Square, Cambridge MA on Saturday, May 10 at 7pm, likely adjourning to Toscanini's for ice cream afterwards.
Please let me know by Friday ( Read more... )

Edit:  added cut.  Also fixed index bugs that made first evaluation task impossible.

My index to Hyperbole and a Half is up at http://web.simmons.edu/~kadel/handh.htmlIt's lacking data on the last few stories in the book, but it should be complete for the blog.  (For some version of "complete" -- this sort of indexing is a subjective process, and ( Read more... )

Here is the first 1% of my index, as it stood when I went to bed last night, except in the real document the entry titles are links and some things are indented. This, times 100. Not user friendly at all ( Read more... )

Edit: yikes, I seem to have indexed entirely too deeply and need to restructure. Sorry peeps, I accidentally made the thing too damned big and don't know how to cope ( Read more... )

That would have been a better movie and a more effective use of the resources at hand if all those buffed and waxed dudes in little bits of leather had just gotten off their boats and had an orgy on the beach presided over by the badass ladies and the gay dude dressed entirely in jewelry, and skipped the battle "plotline" entirely.

When I accidentally go to the front page of my LJ instead of my friends page, I notice that this is not scintillating commentary on the high points of my life. Just last night I was contemplating doing something about that. But right now I am not being the change I want to see. Soon. Sorry ( Read more... )

otter-batch.tumblr.com has an abundance of depictions of Benedict Cumberbatch as an otter, and Martin Freeman as a hedgehog, with a smattering of other animals.

Sunday was the Chaves, an annual Judo tournament hosted by my dojo, Tohoku Judo. It's held at St. John's Prep school in Danvers; it's way too big an event for our dojo in Somerville. The tournament is set up with three competition areas, and this year all three were in use from about 10 am until at least 6pm ( Read more... )

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