You know, there's something both tacky and amusing about DC Comics wrapping up their big, year-long crossover about Death and Resurrection just in time for Easter.

Rand Estate Announce Official Sequel to Atlas Shrugged; Stross, Doctorow Tapped To Scribe.

It's a law of the internet: any mention of a holiday always gets at least one reply asserting that the respondent pays no attention to that holiday, and why ( Read more... )

Gung Hay Fat Tuesday!

… President Valentine … ?

For Lent this year, I think I have to give up procrastinating.

I will, of course, start tomorrow.

After sleeping in far too late yesterday, I went to bed earlyish last night, determined to roll out of bed at a decent hour, hop in the shower, and fire up the computer for the usual rounds of email and job boards ( Read more... )

I had a very pleasant Christmas with my family ( Read more... )

I'm here in Berkeley, at my sister's place. My folks are here. This is the first time we've all been together for the holidays since -- 1982, at least, when my grandmother died right after I went off to college. My middle sister isn't here, but, still, with two of the three of us, it's a quorum.

Stopped off at quelonzia's place before work tonight, just to ( Read more... )

A year ago today, I did something I rarely do: I wrote down an explicit list of New Year's Resolutions. The other half of that tradition, of course, is to sit down at year's end and evaluate my progress.

( 2008 Report Card )

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I had a slice of pumpkin pie, on Boxing Day, on Boxing Day
I had a slice of pumpkin pie, on Boxing Day in the morning!

(For the full impact, this should be sung in the voice of BRIAN BLESSED.)