Yesterday I spent what amounts to about a dozen hours on a bus from DC to Toronto.  I've come to the great white north for the TEDxLibrariansTO conference.  I've been psyched about this conference for weeks and the fact that this is my first trip to Canada as well is also a kind of joy.  Counting the United States I've been in five countries this ( Read more... )

Dear Boomerang Bus,

I understand that you are the place for people to get their drink on and party while riding around town.  I get that.  I actually kind of respect that.  But you know what I don't respect?  Douchebags fucking with me.

Tonight around 10:30 I was waiting at the bus stop with four of my friends.  We're all big guys, 200+ lbs.  We ( Read more... )

Yesterday I didn't get to bed until about 4:00 am.  I was watching Game of Thrones and internetting and basically still believing that it was the afternoon where I was and not the dark of night.  So I headed up to bed and slept, but only until 9:00 am.  The fact that we have no actual curtains in the house, and only shears makes the morning sun a ( Read more... )

I'm continuing to plod along through this work.  It's striking me as a slightly more readable, and far less reliable version of Manly P. Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages. At times I find it fascinating and others completely infuriating because it's blazingly clear that whatever research he did to go into this book was only half-baked.  As if ( Read more... )

No, I'm not writing about The Secret, as I have been for days now.  No, I'm finally writing about Wikileaks.

Like much of the world I have been obsessed with reading about the Wikileaks cables.  Julian Assange cutting his creepy albino Bond villain poses has weaseled his way into my brain and will not let go.  But beyond the revelations that are  ( Read more... )

Several of my Facebook friends have gone beyond dislike to outright disgust with the President because of his stance on Don't Ask Don't Tell, and many of them pointed to Lt. Choi's statement that he wouldn't vote for Obama in the 2012 elections.

I understand that the actions of the President to have the DOJ pursue the DADT policy decision and get an ( Read more... )

So, yesterday we had a plumber come to our house to fix our shower. He fixed the shower, and last night I reveled in the glory of our fixed shower. This morning I thought I would make breakfast and take a shower before work. So all the roommates showered and everything was fine. Pancakes and sausage and good things. Then I get to the shower ( Read more... )

Sometimes it's best to just take care of your yardwork at midnight. I don't know why that is, but there's something about hacking things apart in the dead of night that appeals to me.

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Anyway, last night faeboy81dc and I went to work on the back yard and finished clearing out the last of the weed infestation we had going on back there. I have yet to ( Read more... )

I have been feeling like total garbage the last 24 hours. My allergies have blossomed into the fullness of the season and this means that my eustachian tubes in my ears are loaded with fluid and my throat is tightening with volumes of mucous unprecedented in human history ( Read more... )

Where the hell have I been living that I've totally missed the boat on this? Apparently conservative activists are going to be having a bunch of tax day demonstrations dumping tea into harbors and sending teabags to Congress and the White House for some kind of anti-tax statement that is still to me wholly unclear ( Read more... )