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New essay is up: privacy. This puts me only one more behind for this week to be back on track. Turns out that our tax reamage is due to the fact that we don’t have enough deductible mortgage interest. I.e: We decided to live within our means … so the Man gets the money. . . . → Read More: privacy Less than half of the pictures (those from my camera, and thus my point of view) are now online. Clicky In other news, taxation this year will be most brutal, apparently. Squeeeeee, and not in a happy way. I will be in Ann Arbor from April 7 – 9 for some sort of a cappella alumni reunion. I plan to have some free time, and I would love to see each and every one of you. I was idly sketching on the backs of envelopes while on the trains last week, and I came up with the following: . . . → Read More: Compute power … Home again, home again, riggity jig. Both cats and all the plants seem to be well, though the peppers have still not germinated … and the cat is downright clingy. She’s on the desk between me and the laptop, leaning on my chest as I type. Now is that cute, or what? The trip back . . . → Read More: A very affectionate cat Posting from Venice, city of rivers. Tomorrow, we slam through the Doge’s palace before taking a water taxi to the airport and beginning the long journey home. . . . → Read More: Venice Took the train to Florence this morning. Uneventful. Apparently we’ve figured out how to take a train in just about any language. As usual, people were asking us directions in the station. Happens every single time. . . . → Read More: Florence ==Posting on the next day because the stupid internet cafe reboots their machines when your time runs out, thank God for the new Autosave feature== Just finished a very fine dinner at an upscale vegetarian restaurant and Jazz club. You heard me right. Vegetarian. Since 1976. Jazz club. Upscale. Like, “We got sat in the . . . → Read More: Rome This will be short, because I’m on an Italian keyboard (so every metacharacter is in a different place than I’m used to), plus the ‘i’ and ‘m’ keys are crapped out. I can beat the hell out of the keyboard, pretending it’s an old manual, but the control keys will really rrtate GRAH rrtate GRRRRARGH! . . . → Read More: Keyboard I will be traveling the world for the next week or so. I will be bringing neither laptop nor cell phone. If you wish to meet up, I plan to be laying on my back on a bench in the Sistine Chapel for some portion of Monday, gazing in awe at the David and the . . . → Read More: Away |
