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On Blogging
...so, I need to accept that blogging, like all creative endeavors, needs to be approached with some degree of discipline ( Read more... ) -
misc linkage
...I feel like I should just update this as I see interesting things throughout the day.
Anyway, Bruce Schneier speaks the truth again (turns out power is an idiot, and it's all because of poorly designed incentives! Who knew?!).
Exoplanets turn out to be inhospitable, at least by our anthropocentric standards.
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Political stuff
Just a reminder -- for all Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blusters and blows, his authority is limited to domestic issues. His rants against Israel have about as much bearing on Iran's foreign policy as would those of, say, a U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
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Memes etc.
First off, courtesy of the lovely TrinityvixenBOOKWORM ( Read more... ) -
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On a whim, I decided to look up DangerMouse, the old British cartoon that I saw a bit as a kid.
I went to WikiPedia, wrongly searching for "Danger Mouse," which directs to DJ Danger Mouse.
Now look at that image for a sec...
I am like 95% sure that the background is actually my building! Huh! -
Regarding Health Insurance
I was discussing the necessity of same with moonlightalice today ( Read more... ) -
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Knitting and Higher Mathsinteresting ( Read more... ) -
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So I was told this pretty well sums it up:
Wellgull: The New York Times runs three kinds of stories. Occasionally, there's great in-depth reporting. The other 95% of the time there's either pointless, out-of-touch stories about the petty non-problems of the upper middle class, or current-events reporting that's just behind the curve enough to ( Read more... ) -
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So, I just got back from taking Dad & Deborah (his new wife) to the airport so they could go to LA for today and tomorrow. (This meant getting up and moving to the car at 4AM, then waking at the airport around 5 to drive home -- in the dark, when I haven't driven in months... well, I'm posting, so I must've been fine, right?) Anyway, it's 6:30 ( Read more... ) -
Medical Problems
So....
I went to another foot doctor today and he, unlike the guy who I'd been seeing for the last 9 months, was able to come up with a diagnosis for the problem with my toe.
Specifically, hallux limitusSince you don't want to click the link and read about it (and why would you), it's a problem where the joint of my big toe (where it joins the ( Read more... )
