i am reading everything i can about the crossword puzzle plagiarism scandal.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-plagiarism-scandal-is-unfolding-in-the-crossword-world/

you see a license plate with the letters STNG

Poll what is your first thought?

http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/2014/05/janet-vertesi-keeping-secrets-from-google/Read more... )

so brotherelf and i found ourselves discussing the shape of the toilet paper in our respective countries and found that it differs. and yet we've both traveled to other places and never noted that the shape of the local stuff was different from what we are used to. so science dictates a poll to discover if there's wide regional variations or whether we ( Read more... )

i maintain the website for our shapenote group. when i took on this task, the way that they showed me to update the site was to go to WinSCP, copy the file that i need to a local directory, open the copied file in notepad, make the changes, copy it back to the shapenote directory, and, voila. sometimes i would accidentally open it into html but ( Read more... )

i was going to make this into a poll but i can't frame the questions ( Read more... )

is anything as much fun as a geeky flirtation? i think not ;-) .

why does every change that google makes to gmail result in needing an extra click to get to something that i need to use all the time? in other words, why do we need to bury the sign out button behind a drop down window?

it's a snowy day, so have a poll.

one thing i noticed as i created this is that lynch really did create a lot of interesting roles for women in this series--i could have put a lot more names in in each category.

Poll "twin peaks" poll

i just realized that i never set up a newsreader to read usenet on this laptop.

i've had this laptop for a year.

(also, is it me or is livejournal down in some weird way--i can't see anyone's userpics, and this screen to write a post is completely different and lacking all images.)