www.patheos.com/blogs/unequallyyoked/2014/07/sondheim-symposium-on-friendship-sequence-index.html

Leah (who is an excellent blogger who came up with the Ideological Turing Test), has a whole mini-sequence of posts about the nature and importance of friendships. As someone whose fantasy future involves living in the same house or just next door to my ( Read more... )

aka, a distinction that people don't make nearly often enough or in the right ways

siderea.livejournal.com/1147219.html

A couple of relevant excerpts:

"an awful lot of people get themselves hung up on the idea that the party who is at fault Should be the party to be responsible. "I'm not the one who broke it, I shouldn't have to clean it up!"

It's ( Read more... )

gifs of various chemical reactions. I wish a lot of them were animated with more frames to go slower, but that's really a minor quibble

http://m1ssred.tumblr.com/post/69667336839/chemical-reaction

The fridge delivery So there we were on Friday afternoon at Oporto getting lunch when we got the call from the secondhand furniture shop that they wanted to deliver our fridge to the flat. Twenty minutes later and we arrive at the flat clutching our take-away bags to find the dude waiting outside for us. Then we get upstairs with the fridge and he ( Read more... )

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_politRead more... )

An update on things is in order. Also I'm trying to write this before the lack-of-sleep-induced energy wears off and I collapse ( Read more... )

http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html

Poor Supes.. no kids for him.

In other news, my glasses unexpectedly came in yesterday! So now I can see again :)