best_of_five is leaving tonight - I have to take her to the airport in about an hour - so I am extremely sadface about that. D: D:

So here - have the most adorable panda bear cubs ever playing on a slide. Because it's hard to be sadface while watching this:

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Just taking a few minutes to share a fun and informative Leap Year vid about the angst of mathematicians. Well, tangentially at any rate.

Happy Leap Day! Hat tip to The Dish.

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ETA: Also, on a somber note, I was very sad to hear of the passing of Davy Jones today. I grew up with the Monkees (albeit in syndication) and while I wasn't as big a fan ( Read more... )

Being a New Yorker, 9/11/01 will always remain etched in my memory. The friend I lost that day, my cousin's best friend whom he lost that day, and the thousands of others -- in New York, Washington, D.C., and a lonely field in Pennsylvania. (RIP Kevin and Laurence!) I remember, and always will remember, the sheer horror of that day, and also the ( Read more... )

I've opened this window every day this week, but I really haven't had much to say, so I end up closing it, sighing, and think, "maybe tomorrow." Not that there's nothing going on in my life, but it's just not all that blogworthy ( Read more... )

Recession = bad, so one would think getting more work from a client would be a good thing. And well, okay, it is. Except for the fact that everything has to be done RIGHT NOW and I've barely had a moment to myself in the last two weeks ( Read more... )

David Eddings, author of one of my favorite fantasy series (well, two - The Belgariad and its sequel, the Mallorean) passed away on June 3 at the age of 77.

Damn.

Time for yet another re-read, I think. Maybe some Silk can cheer me up.

(After I pick up best_of_five from the airport. *checks time* Um...Ah well, she's used to me being late. :-P)

Natasha Richardson dies after ski fall

Damn.

*sigh*

I owe comment replies to a few of you, but I'm a bit busy today, trying to finish my work so I can go see my niece at her swimming lesson later. Apparently she's become part dolphin over the last year or so, (just like her auntie when I was young) and she's going to try out for the swim team as well. (unlike her auntie who just liked to swim for ( Read more... )