No supermoon here; the Pittsburgh sky is a giant snow-cloud. I'll just have to wait to see others' pictures.

While today's snow is not the first snow of the season, it was the first snow on a weekday during commuting hours. The roads were fine; other drivers were the usual beginning-of-season challenge. Ah, winter.

I got what might be a bug bite on the back of my leg, but given where it is I couldn't get a good look at it to evaluate. So I tried to use the camera on my phone to get a view of it, but I was having trouble focusing "blind". Then my phone backed the pictures up to the cloud and I decided that was creepy, so I stopped (and deleted those ( Read more... )

Message from landlord: "In accordance with city ordinance blah blah, we will be conducting a mandatory evacuation drill on $date at 10AM."

Implied message from landlord: "Unless you particularly want to walk down 43 flights of stairs, that might be a good day to make other plans ( Read more... )

I needed a fairly long ethernet cable to run to the TV room, and we failed at making our own so I decided to just buy one. Amazon has 50' cables for $6-10, but I wanted it today (new TiVo, for which "wireless" on the feature list apparently really meant "wireless-capable, if you get a peripheral", fooey ( Read more... )

One morning back in June a police officer stopped me, said I hadn't ( Read more... )

Last night my watchband broke (one of those metal expanding/stretch ones, my preferred style). It looked like it might be fixable with the right tools and know-how, which I lack ( Read more... )

More from that parlor game: Comment to this post and I will pick seven things I would like you to talk about. They might make sense or be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
unique_name_123 gave me: computer, spirituality, laurel ( Read more... )

This parlor game comes via talvinamarich:
Comment to this post and I will pick seven things I would like you to talk about. They might make sense or be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
He gave me: Lisp, On the Mark, Accessibility, Books ( Read more... )

Come Thursday I will have read torah four times in three weeks. Fortunately none of the portions were new to me (Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur afternoon, Shabbat during Sukkot, and coming up, creation for Simchat Torah). And I led a good chunk of a service on Yom Kippur, which was nifty but of course required prep ( Read more... )

At first I thought the person next to me, whose desk touches mine, was having a really intense hacking session. Then I realized two things: I wasn't hearing the clickety-clack of keys being pounded upon, and my chair was vibrating. And no, not construction downstairs either, as it turned out. Oh, ok ( Read more... )