Many moons ago, when I was in high school, I had the coolest email address on the planet. antieuclid at therantinggeek.com. I registered the domain name mostly because I wanted the email address, but once I had it I also starting experimenting with HTML. And with getting other people to do mySQL for me so I could set up forums. (Thanks, confuseacat .) I had a ( Read more... )

I just finished my taxes for 2008. Some interesting numbers ( Read more... )

When Mom's working or out of town and I'm on Grandsandy duty for days at a time, he tends to get a bit bored. In my defense, I'm quite good at coming up with old BBC documentaries he might like and similar, but I can't drive and he can't walk to the bus stop, which leaves us stuck in the house. Until now ( Read more... )

I don't need to be told the answer to this question. I already know the answer. What I would like to know is whether you know the answer to the following question ( Read more... )

I hereby officially take back anything nice I ever said about the American version of Life on Mars. I would say more about the series finale I just saw, but I suspect that the swearing to content ratio would be too high to be useful. So let me sum up: That ending was even worse than the one for Angel. And that's saying a hell of a lot.

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I'm listening to NPR about the outrage over the AIG bonuses, and I have to say I'm a little annoyed at it all ( Read more... )

I only have three more days to level a set of characters in World of Warcraft before my Recruit-a-Friend bonus runs out and it takes much much longer. They're currently at level 44, and I need to get them to 60. I can do it as long as I'm diligent about it ( Read more... )

My sister is a senior at a "leadership academy" high school for kids who have had behavioral problems. Seniors have to write a senior thesis on ethics, which my sister is working on while she's home for break. This has led to two entertaining ironies ( Read more... )

The dye workshop went very well, especially considering that there were 17 students. I could have sworn that I told the knitters' guild 12. But we managed, everyone seemed to have a great time, and by the end of the class three of them had signed up for my spinning class next week.