Thanks, Scalzi. You hit all the points I was trying to say about this latest news of trolling on Twitter / internet. I had a draft here and killed it off. drwex pointed out Scalzi would probably make some coherent points on the topic, and lo! Not 2 hours later, that comes true. <3

Last night a guy murdered a bunch of people in Nice, France. This following last week's tragedies with police shooting citizens, and citizens shooting police ( Read more... )

Work... Day 2 back to work after most of a week off has been fractured, but quite nice ( Read more... )

No T = No work.
I live next to Watertown, Belmont, and Cambridge so I feel compelled to keep an eye on if they tell me Arlington should duck and cover, too. In the meantime, here we are, wiping yogurt out of Crime Fighter's hair, doing laundry, and making breakfast.

ETA (12:22): primal_pastry and rintrahroars combined households were home, making late breakfast and acting ( Read more... )

So, I'll let you pick your flavor of news to hear about today's latest act of hate at the Boston Marathon ( Read more... )

I'm headed to Dewey Sq./South Station for the AFL CIO rally for Occupy Boston. Check out FB for details-- xo!

Did I mention, mangosteen , I came across your doppelganger?

Proof:

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(Point of clarification: today is the quiet day. Yesterday, really not)

Yesterday was entirely dedicated to getting into London and going to Pico Con.
Imperial College is very similar to MIT, just -you know- more English (and as Tom points out, more Irish). It has focus on math/science and pretty much ignores humanities. That lack made for some fun ( Read more... )

Ok. I just listened to the NPR 7am podcast (all of 4:46 long). It makes me wonder why I get out of bed in the morning.

So with that in mind: tell me something good that's happening either in the world or to you. Or both.

Surreal. "Amazing Grace" started playing when I was reading Bhutto was just killed.