My delightful friend golux_org, among his other excellent qualities, is an astronomy buff and a photographer. He posts a daily photo at http://photo.bluebrook.com/potd.html, which I read through its LJ feed, bluebrook_potd. Usually he posts (gorgeous) nature scenes, but today’s photo is of the ISS, with the shuttle docked, passing overhead on Saturday. As it happens, ( Read more... )

Well, plumtreeblossom and I made it home, despite two delays and a quite serious sprint with our carry-on bags to a different terminal in Philadelphia to discover that our connecting flight had left and we had to go back to the original terminal to get on the next flight.

Our checked luggage has not made it home, and had not made it to Logan several hours after ( Read more... )

List from the Science Fiction Book Club; meme from hrafn.

( 50 important SF books per the Science Fiction Book Club, and the 22 I’ve read )

What a full and fine weekend! Saturday morning I had dim sum with plumtreeblossom and a bunch of her friends and mine (and in the process discovered that we have some friends in common I didn’t know about!). Dim sum was yummy as always, and I was ravenous when I got there, so I stuffed myself ( Read more... )

[Whoops; I meant to post this to what_a_crock; that’s why it’s so detailed and didn’t name the other people mentioned until I edited it. But hey, maybe some of you care, so I’ll leave it mostly as-is.]

Some time ago I stumbled across this recipe for crockpot Kalua Pig. Kalua Pig is a Hawai‘ian dish which was traditionally made by salting a pig (with sea ( Read more... )

I was recently introduced to Pandora by darxus; you can read his post about it, but basically, you tell it music you like, and it plays similar music. For free, over the net. And you can give it as many different seeds as you like, and keep them separate, so you can listen to fast bluesy jazz instrumental stuff today (what I’ve been listening to today ( Read more... )

Hi! So the current two leading contenders for Wabbit veterinarian are Alex Gonzalez and Janice MacGillivray, both at Fenway. Anybody besides the people who recommended them have opinions about them? (Also, Tom Barber is at Quincy Medical Center and has a strong recommendation; I’d love further opinions about him as well ( Read more... )

Aargh. I recently tried to get in touch with my doctor about getting a referral for a sleep study, to discover she is no longer practicing (or if she is, not through Fenway, and I don’t have a way of getting in touch with her).

cathijosephine had previously given me a glowing recommendation for her doctor, Kevin Kapila, who also works with Fenway. He sounded ( Read more... )

I finally finished Humphry Clinker a couple weeks ago, and enjoyed it quite a lot, despite the preachiness. (I haven’t made much progress on my father’s book about it, though.)

I then read and really enjoyed The Great Time Machine Hoax by Keith Laumer. Somebody on my Friends list, or perhaps on OKCupid, recommended it, so I tracked down a copy ( Read more... )

bearsir, a/k/a S. Bear Bergman, is a wonderful performance artist. I’ve only seen one of his shows, but it was really amazing. (Aside: Bear, I bet you and Kala would have stuff to talk about.)

Anyway, his latest show is called Monday Night in Westerbork. From his post about the show:My new solo play, Monday Night in Westerbork, recounts the untold ( Read more... )