Me: books hotel in foreign city ( Read more... )

Dear Charities1 That I Already Support,

I sent you a sizable donation this year. Recently, even, because I mostly do that at year-end when I know where the annual finances ended up. You acknowledged receipt.

So stop bombarding me with email asking for donations, will you? If I weren't inclined to support you the repeated appeals would not ( Read more... )

My employer provides free drinks, including soft drinks, but because ours is a small office we have to do our own buying. When supplies get low somebody goes to the store, which requires carrying cases of pop a couple blocks. Particularly during the winter this sometimes broke down, so that got us to look at options.

It feels wrong that it is ( Read more... )

I'm interested in answers from all religions/denominations. (Please identify which you're talking about.)
I grew up going to a Roman Catholic church. Collection baskets were passed ( Read more... )

From Fantasy in Miniature: Check, Please, on playing a certain game with Death.

From Meirav Beale on G+: an epic tale of technology and grandparents. Excerpt: Some in the kingdom thought the cause of the darkness must be the Router. Little was known of the Router, legend told it had been installed behind the recliner long ago by a shadowy ( Read more... )

I got a surprisingly-slick call this weekend. The caller said he was ( Read more... )

( yesterday's d'var torah )

I used to occasionally have a problem with an overnight power outage killing the alarm clock and causing me to oversleep, but I've more recently realized that having a UPS or three means never having to fear that again. :-) (Fortunately, today's power outage came after we were up, not in the middle of the night, and only lasted about five minutes ( Read more... )

It looks like Congress is on the verge of passing the bailout bill. Sigh. I feel like I want to say more about that, but it's not coming. In the meantime, this background explanation from David Director Friedman seems sound to me.

To maybe bring some cheer in the wake of that, it's clean-out-the-browser-tabs day:

The sanctuary in the desert, ( Read more... )

The bookshop that has all the books in the world -- except one is a lovely 8-page graphic short story (link from shewhomust).
Joel on Software and Coding Horror (I hadn't heard of the latter before but looks interesting) have launched Stack Overflowwhich looks like it could be a good resource for answering technical ( Read more... )