Speaking of procrastination, I edited and sorted these photos way back in December, and they've been sitting around ever since waiting for me to tag them and upload them (which is the easy part). Might as well finish what I start.


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I have supposedly been writing a thesis introduction for the last month. Its current form consists of a couple incomplete outline versions, a stack of rumpled papers with notes I can no longer decipher, and dozens of text files filled with notes that I can decipher but that don't make any sense (that's the magic of typesetting, folks). I've written ( Read more... )

Right. So I'm supposed to be doing all these things for school (pronounced "writing a thesis"), and I'm behind schedule and getting just a wee bit stressed out. My usual system for dealing with stress is to procrastinate a lot like always, but to do it while using what I like to think of as my "I'm not actually here right now" userpic:


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Since it's getting on toward finals season for those of us in school, it's the perfect time for unschooler.org to ease our pain with another design contest. Submit an entry and it will ease your pain too.

So I went on one of those "vacation" things I keep hearing about. It was gorgeous, but I didn't take a camera. So there. Try searching your favorite photo source for some combination of Needles District, Canyonlands National Park, Utah; San Rafael Swell, Utah; Ridgway, Colorado; Boise, Idaho; and Loon Creek, Frank Church Wilderness, Idaho.

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From #scheme just now:

Ah, Common Lisp - that bastion of baroquery.
And you know what they say: if it's not baroque, don't fix it!
RIMSHOT!
* gnomon hides
I usually don't admit liking puns, but ...
...so you're usually in favour of pun control?
* gnomon ducks and runs
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