Normal duration for total trip time from Fredricksburg -> My Apartment: ~7-8 hours (1.5 hour drive to Washington Metro, .5 hours Metro, 4.5 hours bus, .5 hours NYSubway + Walking, .75 hours assorted waiting ( Read more... )

Just a quick rant, but it seems that a fad in some high academic circles lately is "person first terminology." The theory goes that by saying "diabetic," you are defining a person solely by their diabetes. If you say "a person with diabetes," then you show that they're a person, first, who simply happens to have diabetes. Except... a diabetic ( Read more... )

Status Report: Vaguely sucky. It's annoyingly hot again- there's something up with the thermostat again, I suspect. Plus, I'm hungry. Oh well. The heat makes it hard to sleep.

As for the other thing? Bah. The aide gave me a very serious look about not going to the pharmacy, and suggested that I get it just in case since by the time it ( Read more... )

Meh. It has been reminded to me that I never actually posted Thomas's requested rant, back when the "rant topics" meme was going around. This is one of those unusual memes I highly approved of, so, um, oops. Thomas wanted me to rant on Logic. I've other things to post, but these rants are better their own post, really. Coming up: Bar-hopping, ( Read more... )

I've been set upon one as I read The Dresden Files, which are fairly good, but also have some warts. It's ( Read more... )

The hardboiled private eye sits down at McAnally's (what the hell kind of name is that? Is this a porn movie? Speaking of which, you all heard that Justice Rehnquist might be Deep Throat, right? This has been around before, but the evidence seems to be getting stronger. That'd be awesome if he was.) and gets sidetracked by parenthetical ( Read more... )

Hi. My name is snowflame, and I... I... have a bit of a confession to make. A problem. I... I don't watch that much telvised sci-fi. In fact, I don't read that much of it, compared to the other books I read ( Read more... )

Okay, any sensible rant on pirates has to judge at least three different facets of piracy.

1. Modern Piracy. It ain't dead, folks. But there's so little press on it! Aside from a long segment on NPR I heard while driving on the LIE for an interview that ended up not getting me a job, you barely hear about it. It's mostly in the Indian Ocean ( Read more... )

1. Comment with any subject that you would like me to rant on, with possible swearing involved. Any subject - I don't even have to agree with it ( Read more... )

Is it too much to ask that on New Year's Eve, I sit in a 24-hour diner, picking at pancakes while sipping orange juice, and reading a bad fantasy novel loaned to me by scattercatYes. Yes it is, apparently. It's also too much to ask for Windows freakin' Explorer not to crash after writing up the more extended version of the event, complete with sidetrack ( Read more... )