OK, dorkery ho!

It's things like this that make geeking so much fun:

( The 500 Mile Email )

I just got a fortunate cookie with no fortune in it.

That's a Zen death threat if I ever saw one.

OK, so y'all may have been following Felis' data-loss travails, and from that you may have gleaned that I got a new MacBook, which she is able to use while her hard drive walks, slowly on stubby feet, from Halifax ( Read more... )

So the Borders closest to our house just closed down. There is a BN closer, so I'm not that upset, but it had one particular advantage, it was near the garage. It's much less of a hardship to wait 5 hours for a car repair if you can hang at a bookstore. It's interesting, Felis and I have opposite opinions of Borders, but for the same reason. She ( Read more... )

( Please ignore this if you don't have any cheese to go with my whine. )

I guess their violet wand was in the shop

So, the feminists have a discussion about the blood donation issue I posted about. Someone pointed out in the comments that the Red Cross keep asking Congress to remove the questionnaire restriction, but they won't. I have no problem believing that Congress is that source of the problem.

As an SNL parody of Chris Matthews on Hardball once said "I ( Read more... )

So, for *NO* reason at all other than I'm awesome, I was thinking the other day about this show I saw in the 80's. I couldn't remember the name, but it made an impression. Google helped me out. I the era of Airwolf, Knight Rider and Automan (seriously, check out the awesome), this show was born from the inimitable forehead of Glen A Larson, ( Read more... )

I want to re-read Cryptonomicon, because it rocks so hard. However I'm a slow reader, especially Stephenson, it would take me at least 9 months to get through it. So I decided to track down an audio version. Oh the sucking.

There is a version on cassette at Amazon for only $99. Whee.

Audible has a download of "unabridge excerpts." WTF? Doesn't a ( Read more... )

First off, grand thanks to slipjig for sending me the Playdate with the Loki Family mix CD collection. I've been cranking it for a week now. I was actually planning on a more detailed post going in to all the things I like about it, but it was taking so long to get around to that that I wanted to throw out the props before then. I'll try to get my mixes ( Read more... )