Ramadan Mubarak!

Don't forget about
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I follow Live Granades because, although I don't go to the IFMud much anymore, I spent a lot of time there, and really liked Stephen, and even spent some time on vacation with him and Misty. Mostly, I like looking at the pictures of their kids and Misty's craftwork.

But this is a seriously great post:So to recap: a game intended to be religious ( Read more... )

I've been eating too much sugar recently, so I think it's a good time for a return to no-high-fructose-corn-syrup Lent. Today, for Mardi Gras, I will have the last rum and cokes I will have for a while.

I will have to learn how to perfect that daquiri.

This journal has moved to Dreamwidth. Entry originally posted at http://tablesaw.dreamwidth.org ( Read more... )

That sounds like a very nice title, but this is not a nice post.

Yeah, it's about Elizabeth Moon, who said unbelievable wrong and harmful things about immigration, assimilatin, and most especially Islam. There once were hundreds of comments carefully picking out the threads of ignorance from the post and exposing them for what they were, but they' ( Read more... )

It's Easter, but I was at work, because the firm doesn't give official holidays on Sundays, when only a handful of staff are required to work.

So I was on the 16th floor of a high-rise in downtown LA when a 7.2 earthquake hit northern Mexico. It was pretty minor in LA, but it was my first tremor in the high rise, and we were swaying enough that we ( Read more... )

It's Eid al-Fitr, and a day of feasting! If you like fanfiction, then you should check out
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I don't have a twitter account, though, so I'll have to put it here ( Read more... )

So this is Part Two of my long Holy Saturday. This is really the more exciting part. It's got God, a cute girl and me getting literally weak in the knees.
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The day was long, but very good.

My brain is still a bit sluggish from the 28-hour work-puzzle-Mass-athon, so I'll probably write more later. (The observant among you will notice the very afternoonish time of this journal entry. I'm diurnal again, for this weekend, anyway.) Highlights: Boring work. Lots of puzzles. Good response to cryptic. ( Read more... )

My feet have been cleansed, following the mandate of Christ. The cryptic is now pretty much finished and is waiting for its solvers. (I'll update the puzzle when I get home to the same link as listed yesterday. Thanks again, davidglasser, for pointing out some simple errors.) And there's actually been work today, a Court pleading that needed a grammatical ( Read more... )