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Found in a collection of photos of dogs, hanging out car windows. To this one I could only say, "Holy Cow! It's Jay Lake reincarnated as a dog!"


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The Polling Point people are running essay contests through the election, requesting opinion-driven essays (blog posts, really) and videos on various issues. The current one is on the prompt, "If you could speak directly to Obama and Romney, what would you tell them they had to do to secure your vote?" What follows is my take -- it's a short ( Read more... )

Boy, being on Facebook means never having to say, "No one remembered my birthday," I tell you what. Took the afternoon off to goof off a bit, try paint-your-own pottery for the first time, and take afternoon tea with a few friends. Got flowers from Hal and had steak for dinner. A lovely day. This weekend I'll make a pilgrimage to Kirkland to ( Read more... )

So dinner was particularly nice today, and I was especially pleased with my experimental variant on the Asian-style dressed salad ( Read more... )

I'm still far from well, but yesterday libertango did manage to get me out of the house long enough to eat some lunch at Noah's. At the last moment I took a pass on the bagel&lox, and went for a pastrami-on-bagel sandwich instead on the theory that if I continue to avoid large glops of tasty dairy I may also continue to avoid glops of sinus- ( Read more... )

Actually, it's been more than a year since I moved up, but I just hit my one year anniversary at work ( Read more... )