Some nights, when I can't sleep, I have better, clearer insights than at any other time all day. That might be useful, under some circumstances completely different from my own.

The confusing thing for Native American ethnohistorians, is why did almost no North American peoples either develop or adopt written language? ( Teal deer wherein I wax rhapsodic in my complaint that 'real' historians have to rely on archaeologists and ethnographers instead of One of Us. )

And happy 29th birthday to ianthe99!

I guess I owe you guys a weaktoast apology of sorts: I haven't been posting here much of late, because there haven't really been many things to comment on. Getting started with school in fits and jerks, because I'm afraid to drive my car (the dang check still hasn't cleared for my new tags! I sent it three weeks ago!) ( Read more... )

I meant to watch the entire West Wing before last quarter started, but before this one started was probably more ambitious than strictly necessary anyway ( Read more... )

Happy yesterday, steveedison!

No, I'm not dead or deployed to Timbuktu. My hard drive crashed, and I've been through four days of alternately drinking and swearing, playing Halo 3, and earnestly running permissions restoration and defrags on my hard drive in the hope that it would revive ( Read more... )

I thought I'd gotten two bad memory mods for the MacBook. In a row.One is possible, even plausible; two is operator error ( Read more... )

I did it. I updated my "shelves" with whatever was on my shelves this afternoon (in preference to finishing the paper I'm stuck on) and the last few books I remember borrowing from the library.

When I was moving down here last year, I spent a couple of days living in a hotel with Fred. I had his water bowl, his food bowl, his catbox all in the room with us, really everything a cat could want...except for a chance to wander around and maybe pee outside. Naturally, he got out ( Read more... )

Not supposed to drink and mow.