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to-do
Goals for Pesach vacation:- recover from today's minor periodontal surgery (on which more later)
- submit complete revised final book files (text & cover) for press
- finish (if not actually order printing of) L&E's ketubah
- do enough shopping and cooking to keep us thoroughly fed on vegetables and animal proteins
- take justom to 1st-night seder
- tie up a bunch ( Read more... )
- recover from today's minor periodontal surgery (on which more later)
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#upgoer5: Putting Things On The Face Book
lyonesse and bluepapercup were doing an #upgoer5 meme, explaining one's profession using only the "ten hundred" most-used words (inspired by xkcd). So I did too.
"I work for a school, putting things that parents and teachers need to know up on the computer so they can find it out. I also take pictures and moving pictures to show parents what fun things their kids do ( Read more... ) -
2012 Christmas recap
Had a really nice Boston trip to justom's family Christmas, and also managed to see two shows AND get in a lot of excellent social time with excellent people (even though I had to miss Staxmas to get my return bus the evening of the 25th, in order to be at work today). We were holed up on the South Shore with the family from Sunday night to Tuesday. justom's ( Read more... ) -
Send me a web developer!
I need (in my workplace capacity) an ASP programmer to help me think through and build a couple of webform/transaction pages. Gentle readers, can you refer me to someone with clue in this area? We'd ideally want them to be NYC-local so they could come in to discuss the project in person, but if it's a friend-of-a-friend, I could deal with them ( Read more... ) -
Perceivable joys of today
10. Last day of work before Passover vacation = veritable ghost town and leaving promptly at 5:30pm
9. Ordered flowers for my mom, to be delivered tomorrow to the rehab center (where she's recuperating from hip replacement surgery, you morons)8. Picked up library books (one on reserve, a few more at random) for vacation ( Read more... ) -
Poll: Splitting the blog?
Something I've started pondering of late.
Poll The Personal Is Professional?
Note: For those to whom "personal brand" is actually a foreign concept, here's a useful summary:
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Linkfest
I've been wanting for days and days to write some stuff about what's happening on my interior landscape, but have been too busy churning out actual work (made some updates to my website, though, alongside working on the big book project). So, in lieu of content, you get some of the interesting things that have come up in the past several weeks.
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Geeking out
Sometimes I think I should really just take up programming. I apparently have a much neater sense of code than plenty of the geeks I know ( Read more... ) -
Art, or, some things I learned last night on W. 21st St.
Apparently:- The neighborhood of Chelsea is the epicenter of the global art world.
- You can print off daily listings of gallery exhibits, events, and openings (this is, I'm sure, a no-brainer, but I'd never been aware of it before).
- Head-to-toe black (turtleneck, knee-length tiered skirt,tights, motorcycle jacket) plus funky shoes constitutes Artist ( Read more... )
- The neighborhood of Chelsea is the epicenter of the global art world.
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MuffinButtons at Arisia 2012
As previously noted, I will once again be vending MuffinButtons at Arisia! ... Yeah, I need to update the site, but that's not important right now. Trust me, I've expanded the collection by quite a lot from what's shown there.
But I'd like to expand it further.
So: market research.
Poll Order me up some custom buttons!(No one can see your answers, so be creative. You can also make ( Read more... )