I'm not sure whether to lead with the back-story, or the song. I think the song. One of the songs. For some of the back-stories.
Today's song is Janis Ian's "Welcome to Acousticville" (Lyrics). It's on her album, Hunger. Go and listen. I'll wait. Back-story - the song

I first heard "Welcome to Acousticville" the one time I ( Read more... )

Just a gratuitous icon post, to show off the sign on our gate.

Don't be alarmed by the location -- Colleen is just in for another endoscopy, having a gallstone removed. She should be waking up soon.

[Crossposted from mdlbear.dreamwidth.org, where it has
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Both the job search and the house triage continue, if not apace, at least ( Read more... )

Hmm. I think it was a pretty good day, but mostly I kept busy and didn't notice. Which I guess makes it a very good day, in some sense ( Read more... )

It's been a long, strange trip. It still is. The journey started three and a half years ago on livejournal, with this post and this song.

It's been quite a while since I was posting regularly on this tag, since I ( Read more... )

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Read the Wikipedia article.

Watch the video.

Look at xkcd 442, which is indeed awesome, and the comments on the LJ feed post, where the fun began.

Track the progress on xkcd_boomdeyada.

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