I've been writing an awful lot of stuff in the key of D lately. Not necessarily D major; in fact, it's usually a blending of major and minor. Unless I'm overlooking something in my notebook, all but two of the pieces I've worked on since March -- that is, from my M.A. thesis forward -- have been in D, and one of the two counterexamples is a ( Read more... )

So, last night I pondered the problem of improving LJ's message filters through additional operators. In case you skipped over that entry, here's a summary: with LJ's current filter setup, which allows you to send messages to the union of any collection of filters, if you have n journals on your friends list, you would need n filters, one for each ( Read more... )

So, I was talking with sammka tonight, and our conversation turned to Livejournal. Specifically, friends lists. I was mentioning why I chose to keep my own friends list small -- I wanted to make sure my private posts were only seen by people I trusted, and I was had mistakenly thought that message filters were only available as a paid feature. Sammka ( Read more... )

Nearly a month after graduation, I'm finally closing the door on the two years of my life spent at Tufts. After a few weeks of fruitlessly searching for subletters, (That could be an entry in itself, if I wanted to whine. Two people got lost trying to find my place. Two made appointments to see the place but never showed. Two people were ( Read more... )