Oh, flist (dwircle), it's the weekend! \o ( Read more... )

From Alan Turing: The Enigma, on the death of his first love, Christopher Morcom: [Alan] had surrendered half his mind, only to have it drop into a void.

From thousandpages, who officially tagged the whole list, ten things that make me happy:1. Nightly glee. This isn't really redundant, because the act of recalling and verbalizing daily joys itself makes me a ( Read more... )

It's Ash Wednesday. Blessed Lent to all those who are observing it.

I'm not sure exactly yet what I'm doing for Lent. I don't really think of it as giving something up with the implication that, well, the implication is usually that it's sort of a pointless exercise in self-deprivation. Lent should never be pointless. The point of Lenten devotion ( Read more... )