Remind me to turn off "provide feedback with sound" in Word when working at night and listening to music through headphones attached to my computer.

This creepy exploration of childhood imaginary friends reminded me of Alana's miniature white buffalo in a box. And a whole host of others, like

the Creepers

Now I've gone and done it, looking up an old personal site on the Wayback Machine. Nothing really ever goes away, does it? Although this made me smile and realise that the current ( Read more... )

First the White House requests $160.5 million to pay for credit monitoring for people whose information was compromised, and then the laptop is recovered and the press are reporting that the data were "apparently unaccessed." Erm, how exactly do they know? The quote from VA Guy: "They are diligently conducting forensic analysis on it to see if they ( Read more... )

Plus: I made kitsune soba today with improvised vegan dashi (no kombu, so I used a boatload 'o' dried shiitake and some nori sheets; wow, but nori goes all gloopy when cooked), and we ate it, and it was good.

Minus: The animal shelter phoned today and said that lil' Bruiser (as he is known at the shelter, anyway) cannot come home tomorrow because ( Read more... )

So I don't even really try to go to sleep anymore. I just lie in the dark and attempt to make my body comfortable while my monkey mind chatters away. Last night I did get in a bit of a nap. I know I dozed off because I found myself staring at a popup ERROR MESSAGE IN MY BRAIN, which said something to the effect of This filetype is not supported. ( Read more... )