Somehow I managed to miss the following IMs last night:

qousqous: ok so i have a question for you

qousqous: say rehnquist dies this weekend, and there is a lawsuit over the election, and it goes to the supreme court

qousqous:what happens if the court splits 4-4?

qousqous:because i for one have no clue.

I have no answer, except, "Then your Election Night party becomes even ( Read more... )

So I finished Dhalgren today, and now I'm taking notes on all the pages I bookmarked and dogeared (I know, bad me) so I can finally return it to the library more than a month overdue (and that's double-bad me for abusing a library book, yes). And then I ran across this little gem, which seemed entirely appropriate for inflicting on my LiveJournal:
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in no order except what my brain randomly produced them in:

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  Go to Saturday Market and pick up our first CSA box! Woo! (done as of 3:30 PM Saturday)
  
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  Share said box of veggie goodness with theshytiger
  
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  Get groceries: laundry soap, shampoo, conditioner, sundried tomatoes, and maybe others depending on the contents of the CSA box (mostly done as of 7:15 PM ( Read more... )

I got this email from NaNoWriMo headquarters and without thinking too much about it followed the link in it, and sha-wham! I'm registered for this year. So now I really have to figure out what I'm writing, I guess.

When I realized what I'd done, I fled the house, checked out some yard sales (the neighbors weren't the only ones taking advantage ( Read more... )

So help me, I cannot remember figuring out the concept of mathematical inverses (multiplicative and additive), let alone when they were first introduced to me. I guess at the time I didn't even think it was cool, probably because it was only explained to me in terms of how to solve simple algebra problems, and not in terms of "ok, so this is one ( Read more... )

So lately it seems like everything I read is sad: currently it's Kelly's copy of Stone Butch Blues, before that it was a reread of the Dark Tower series, because Book 5 (The Wolves of Calla) is coming out this year or I'm going to go seriously Misery on Stephen King's ass. To counter this trend and try to win back the feeling that there's hope for ( Read more... )

So I'm at the Eugene Public Library feeding my LiveJournal and Everything2 addictions, with varying degrees of success (Internet Explorer can suck it! I want my tabbed browsing, dangit!) I want very much for our DSL to start working now please. On a related note, if you've sent me email in the past five days, I haven't gotten it. Sorry. Them's ( Read more... )

The title of this entry comes from an actual wine review published in today's New York Times. It made me giggle, especially when contrasted with the rest of the article, which was much more highbrow: "Reds Easy to Drink, Easy on the Budget" (I think you need a login to view it.)

In other news (longer discussion hidden behind ( Read more... )

Matt Ruff's new book is out! It's called Set This House in Order, and it's about two people with multiple-personality/dissociative identity disorder, and as of about 30 seconds ago I'm 3rd in line for it at the Eugene Public Library. I don't know if I can wait that long, although I kind of want to wait for the paperback before buying it, since it ( Read more... )