I've been buying waaaaay too much stuff lately.

CD.
Stuff from Beckett. (Well worth it.)
Shoes.
Headset.
Bugs. (Yes, you read that right. $40 worth. To be little buggy assassins.)
And now....a Lamy Studio Fine Point fountain pen.


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My friend, the amazingly fantastical artist Beckett Gladney, has finally set up an Etsy shop. She has just a few items to start with, but they range from prints to very pretty knitting markers. Go check it out!

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7160505

Queen Elizabeth I has to appear in one of the final three David Tennant Episodes, or the writers should be soundly flogged.

Re-watch the ending of The Shakespeare Code.

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Ah, yes. The thank you post I had intended to write about this time, two weeks ago....when I was instead trying my best to hack up a lung ( Read more... )

How best to make a barman look at you with disgust:

Bring in your own (giant) mug, and ask for mugsfull of hot water to make tea throughout the evening.

Good session tonight. Still not over this ^$@%#$@ cough, though it's not as bad as it was.

General announcement, since I met/got to know a lot of cool folks at Consonance ( Read more... )

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Got a question about combining records in MS Access. I can think of a convoluted way to solve this problem, but I'm hoping for a simpler solution ( Read more... )

So, I made an interesting (to me) realization last night: I have little to no aural depth perception. I knew I tended to hear recorded or amplified music as a wall of sound, having trouble listening to the line of a single instrument. Even when I'm sitting amongst instruments, it's sometimes hard to hear just one ( Read more... )