The last half of April remains something of a blur, in part because of 3 trips to 4 cities plus an extra 500 miles of driving, two separate grant proposals, more house shenanigans, and negotiating care and related services with 3 health systems and 2 lawyers. At this point, the less said about all that, the better ( Read more... )

Quick thoughts on today's Marvel news:

On Captain Marvel: OMG YAY IS IT 2018 yet?

On Black Panther: OMG YAY IS IT 2017 yet?

On Captain America: Civil War: OMG, y'all, I fucking called it a year ago! Is it May 2016 yet?

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Slowly but steadily, I'm catching up. Before it gets too far into the New Year, let's take a look back at the last one, shall we?

( 2012: the year in review )

It's actually fairly early to be taking lunch over here, but I looked at my calendar for the afternoon and realized that this was the best chance I was likely to have for several hours, so... lunch it is ( Read more... )

After that last wee-hours post, I did manage to fall asleep --

-- and promptly spent the rest of the night dreaming confused dreams set in the Marvel universe, with a large cast of characters involved.

I blame Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes. :)

(Note to self: update icon set.)

Right. Time for coffee. A lot of it.

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Because it appears to be That Kind of Day for a number of people around the Internet, I thought I'd share some links from my morning reading that have one great thing in common: each and every one of them made me smile.

• Gaslamp Games - promoting safe spaces for women gamers. Quoting the post's author: "I’m about to tell you a story about ( Read more... )

Today's links all have a theme - SCIENCE!

• SpaceX's Falcon 9 blasts off for the ISS. Welcome to the final frontier, by way of commercial spaceflight. Seriously, I'm excited about this - I've been keeping an eye on SpaceX news since 2002, and they've gone from proof-of-concept to success in practice. They also have a NASA contract to develop ( Read more... )

I had a wonderful few days in Boston this past weekend with
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