Does anyone know what the little icon that looks a bit like DO NOT ENTER sign that has suddenly appeared on the left end of some of the message lines in my Thunderbird inbox mean?

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I've been largely avoiding the news for most of the past three years for the sake of my sanity. But I went to the BBC this morning because of the Google doodle on the web's 30th birthday. And while there remains plenty wrong with the world, I also found a trifecta of stories to feel good about: A heartwarming family story, featuring a ( Read more... )

A FOAF needs quite suddenly to move. Like in 48 hours. I'll edit this with more details when I know some; meantime if this sounds like a {mitzvah | opportunity to address karmic balance | cool thing to do} to you, please let me know. (Email is best, or comment here.)

After fifteen years on LJ, I have joined the great exodus ( Read more... )

I continue to lose weight - and continue to be astounded. Two weeks ago I finally decided it was real and I wasn't really at risk of embarrassing myself half to death by posting about it and then gaining half of it back the next week. Last week I was down another 1.8 kg. Which I decided not to post about it because I know better than to get too ( Read more... )

I'm a tiny bit under the weather - just enough to dull my driving skills oh so slightly and to make staying up late and exposing myself to other people's germs a little ill-advised. Which wouldn't ordinarily be enough to keep me from a chance to visit with friends I don't see often enough. But throw in the earlier rain, the forecast hard freeze, ( Read more... )

Ten weeks ago today, I weighed first thing in the morning, swore under my breath, and muttered something to myself along the lines of "I've got to get serious about this before it kills me."

That was probably the hundredth time I've enacted that little scenario in the last few years. But this time it took. As of this morning, I've lost 12 kg in ( Read more... )

I couldn't afford to, but I just made my first political donation since the 2016 election. After two years of apathy and despair and generally avoiding the news because it would only make me feel worse, I saw a chance to maybe make a difference in the future of my country. This country I used to love.

People For the American Way was founded close ( Read more... )

I love Adam Savage not least for his unabashed nerdiness - and his infectious enthusiasm for other nerds and their work.

Barnaby Dixon is a stop-motion animator turned puppeteer, who's devised his own puppet techne. Which is interesting in its own right, and doubly so for what it lets him achieve artistically.

In a video posted earlier today, ( Read more... )

I lost my phone Tuesday. Skipping the details, I've now given up on finding it, and have ordered a refurb and a new SIM. Which, because I didn't want to pay the penalties for panic shipping, will arrive next week.

But now it occurs to me that not having a cell phone during the first weekend of rush is tempting Murphy's laws.

So: does anyone know ( Read more... )

I just got off an hour-long phone with my surgeon's nurse, discussing the stuff I need to do in preparation for my carpel-tunnel surgery Tues. In which I learned something I had not anticipated: There needs to be someone accompanying me home. And I have to let them know the day before who that will be. (I wasn't expecting to drive myself home ( Read more... )