MegaPoMo is over! I finished ( Read more... )

So, I heard my first Christmas Muzak on October 31. How about you? Poor MegaHAL is having some problems with a certain Yuletide carol this year. Well, everybody gets confused about all those fa-la-las when we first start out, don't we?

Centuries later on the tongue ( Read more... )

Physically, I was doing a little better today than yesterday. Emotionally, for various reasons, I've had feelings of loneliness alternating with rage. Illness is really cramping my style, you know ( Read more... )

was useless. There wasn't much point in getting out of bed because I couldn't function well enough to do anything once I was up. Had an appointment, which I had to cancel. Did get out of the house, but probably walked less than half a mile--as it probably took me less than a quarter mile to figure out that I would not be able to make it to that ( Read more... )

Just last night, I got my very first comment spam in my LJ! I've deleted it, of course, but saved the comment notification so I could marvel at the sheer beauty of the thing. If anybody ever needs heral vigra, these are the guys to buy it from ( Read more... )

Another day in which I have done very little, though at least I did a load of laundry, make a few phone calls, bought catfish pieces at the grocery store, and read a bit (some of Michael Shermer's Why Darwin Matters and some stuff online). Mostly I rested in bed, nursing a succession of cups of hot tea. Fried some catfish (unbreaded), onions, ( Read more... )

The phone problems may have been solved! At least for now, until the next time. Anyway, it's time for another bit of MegaHAL, about a rather frightening tree limb.

Here's a story of an old tree limb ( Read more... )

Megahal is able to do with the humors of the energies ( Read more... )

Connection speeds have been ridiculous numbers like 9600 bps, things that make my old 14.4 modem look good by comparison. Of course the problem here isn't the modem, but the landline itself. Still, I'd like to be able to do something on the internet, and that isn't really much of an option today ( Read more... )

I keep getting disconnected from the Internets! Woe is me! I am undone ( Read more... )