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And by matching, I mean things of the identical color or pattern, not just a complimentary color.

I am bemused at how the assumption is that San Francisco, the Silicon Valley and the Bay Area are widely presumed to have superior consumer and other technology. I keep recalling two comparisons to the place we used to live - DC and Northern Virginia suburbs ( Read more... )

When we drove a lot the weekend before last, we started listening to an audiobook, William Gibson's Zero History. We got more than halfway, but Andy decided that he doesn't care enough about it and I finished it on my own, in 20 minute bursts. I was getting a bit tired of NPR and my seldom-updated music collection, so I've decided to switch to ( Read more... )

Grrr! I was doing so well with all my piercings, and I fucked up my right ear while cleaning it! I've seen people before with unevenly stretched ears and that always looked funny to me, and now, at least for a time, I'll be one of them! I've done a pretty good job of fighting the OCD, I hope it doesn't kick in now ( Read more... )

My phone has been giving me enough grief without actually being broken that I want another, but can't completely justify the expense. Because my contract does not subsidize phones, it doesn't matter when I buy it, I have to pay a non-contract price. Probably $300-400 or more. I know I'm not going to be able to get what I want because there is only ( Read more... )

I know I have no real right to be, but I'm a grammar nazi. Yes, I'm ESL, and I make plenty of mistakes in English and Russian, but it really bothers me when people use your/you're or their/there/they're or than/then or it's/its incorrectly if they should really know better. Like on product packaging. Or when you're a native speaker with a ( Read more... )

So, my body has been going through cycles of weird pains. There were the arm pains and the nausea, and now I also got these all-body tension pains. I think it's from repetitive motion or bad positioning, so I've been finally thinking about giving up computing in bed. I'm doing it now, except I'm seated totally differently. But I think a better ( Read more... )

Technology has been absolutely hating me lately, especially in the past several days. Just a quick rundown ( Read more... )

Seriously. I'm not sure what kind of a bug it is, but half the time, my comment threads don't expand properly. I can live with the aesthetic changes, but not the functional. Not sure how I feel about this new icon selector, either. And the interesting fact that these changes appear half the time and the other half it's back to normal remind me of ( Read more... )

We made another Ikea run today and after I told Andy that we need to get some art for the other bedroom, I talked him into buying fabric and some metal rails, so now I have to step up and put it all together. The fabric is more than twice as wide as the rails, so I've decided to turn it inside out and stitch it into a tube, then turn it right side ( Read more... )