My house is less than a block from a junior high school. At this time of year, the athletic field is taken over by 12 to 14 year olds (and their parents) practicing football and cheerleading. Also, my street is jam packed with minivans and suburban assault vehicles. My own SAV can barely fit between . . . → Read More: Cheerleaders
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I went to bring in the mail this morning, and there was a pair of moths on my screen door. Butt to butt. I can only assume that they were busily copulating. They didn’t seem at all disturbed by me opening the door, getting the mail, and closing the door again. Kids these days, I . . . → Read More: Moth sex We recently got netflix, and I’ve spent the last hour or so populating my queue with the 30 or so movies I’ve been meaning to watch for a while now. If there are movies that an adult life can’t be complete without seeing, or even ones that are well worth an evening on the couch, . . . → Read More: Netflix Okay, it was freakishly hot today. Far too hot for manual labor. So, of course, that was what we did. Started off with a nice round of mowing the lawn and then ripping rotten wood off the garage and nailing up non-rotten wood. Then up to Boston to help technolope and capital_l move from one . . . → Read More: Spent Wild, party time Friday night at my place. I got 5 6′ lengths of 1×6 pine, and 3 8′ lengths of 1×4. I then ripped the remaining pieces off the sofett on my garage (the corner edging where the roof meets the wall) and began to screw the new stuff into place. redmed had ripped . . . → Read More: Late Spent the last hour or so wrestling with Retrospect, which is my answer to the “I need to back up my laptop” question. It’s very easy to define an “internet backup” using this software, and to point it at an FTP server, like the one in my basement. Turns out it’s just a hair trickier . . . → Read More: Details, details… I just ate the second tomato of summer. It was perfect. I made a veggie burger sandwich, with cheese, on pumpernickel, and I put the center slice of the tomato on the sandwich. The rest of the fruit was chunked up in bite size pieces, with a bit of salt and pepper. On the . . . → Read More: Food bliss Thanks to amnesiadust, I know that there’s a decent article in the current New Republic that proposes a “new”, New Deal. I like it a lot, because the authors first state their goals, and then propose a plan that seems to address those goals: (1) The federal fiscal system should be moderately progressive. In other . . . → Read More: Economics… This morning, I was dreaming when I woke up. I had been having trouble hearing, and so I dug around in my ears, and started pulling out snails. Live ones, with shells. They were just normal, like, 1 inch across garden snails. In my ears. Ick. Worked today at MIT. I like MIT. Wrote (you . . . → Read More: Dreams… So apparently (and here, and here) Dick Cheney likes to go to those “hunting” facilities where they toss pheasants into the air for you, and he shot 70 of them in a single day. In 2003, the farm tossed 500 birds, of which his entourage killed 417. Meanwhile, the death toll in Iraq is 1827, . . . → Read More: Sick, sick, sick… |
