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Feels like I haven’t posted anything in a while. No idea whether that’s true or not. redmed is home safely from her international adventures. Today we’re supposed to take delivery of a futon, which will get its inaugural use this weekend when friends from Minnesota come to visit. The weather is grey and nasty. Temperatures . . . → Read More: I live! Gah. Years ago, my officemate and I sat and babbled about a pattern recognizer that would allow you to whistle a tune, and would provide the name of the song and the artist(s) who performed it. Of course this would only work if there was a really large database of music available online, and computing . . . → Read More: Another idea stolen. People who have been listening to me gripe for long enough know that I get really irate about coal. I think that one of the symptoms of our continuing slide into oblivion, as a species, is the fact that we’re going back to coal power. In my opinion, any power source that we have to . . . → Read More: Coal! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I don’t know why everyone doesn’t put marshmallows in their coffee. I happened to try it out, and it’s at least as good as putting marshmallows in hot chocolate. Call Starbucks. While we’re on the topic of Starbucks, I think that they should put a caramelized crust on top of their high end drinks. Sprinkle . . . → Read More: Ideas There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. It’s finally a quiet and relaxing day in the tiny province of “me”. redmed is off in Denmark. Put her on the plane last night around 7:30pm, and then skipped over to capital_l and technolope‘s place for pizza and conversation. simianpower was there, wrapping up his Boston vacation. It’s nice to have friends within reasonable . . . → Read More: Weekend The juxtaposition of a quiet laundry scene with random, thoughtless brutality fills me with giggly glee. click here to understand. Sunday evening, I crashed at around 6pm. By my math, I had been awake (minus a couple o fitful naps in the air) for about 40 hours. It was very rapid. redmed and I were out shopping for a futon, and I was participating usefully. Then I sat down on a futon, and she was . . . → Read More: Back to it… CNN says that: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states may not pass laws blocking outside wineries from shipping directly to customers. This squares well with my reading of the constitution, and that whole “no interference with interstate trade” bit. This means that I will no longer have to impose on my friends in MI . . . → Read More: Ship me the booze! I’m safely home, and had a nice sleep. The end of the trip was uneventful. redmed picked me up at the airport. Unfortunately, I’m also wide awake at 3 in the morning. It’s 9am in Delhi. My body is convinced that we’re late to be somewhere. Ah well. This too will pass. Pictures from the . . . → Read More: Safely home, and pictures |
