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Cultural Indicators
I went to the states over Thanksgiving. It was great. Thanks to all the people I got to see and apologies to all those I did not. I had what might be best described as a nourishing time. Which is just what I needed ( Read more... ) -
Guitar Solo Personality Testing
Earlier today I braved a drive to Oxford to do some shopping. Some Christmas, some furniture for the new place. It went surprising well despite the extraordinary traffic ( Read more... ) -
Midwest Bound
I shall be back in the US from November 24th through December 9th. First half of that in the Cincinnati area, second in the Bloomington area, with maybe some Kentucky excursions. Are you going to be in those areas? -
This American Life Ripping My Heart Out
On the train into London this morning I listened to part of episode 359: Life After Deathof This American Life. Act One: Guilty As Not Charged is described like this:
Everyone told Darin Strauss that there would have been no way to avoid hitting the bicyclist who swerved into the path of his car. When the girl died, the police said Darin wasn't at ( Read more... ) -
Vote
It's an indication of the mood of the world that this year, for the first time in my entire life of being unable to vote in US elections, I really want to be able to vote. Shit is afoot. Would be nice to be a part of that ( Read more... ) -
Newbury First Impressions
One of the first things I noticed this evening, was how remarkably white Newbury is. And English too ( Read more... ) -
English Living: Driving Licence
Every now and again I give a bit of tale to whoever might be listening on the other end of my chat session. Tale of some injustice or weirdness of living in England. Some have suggested I should be writing these down somewhere. So, in honor of the fact that it has now been a year (holy jesus) since I moved over here and because my tumblelog is ( Read more... ) -
Tumbling With Tumblr.
I've started a geeky tumblelog over on tumblr.com, mostly talking about web-related stuff: http://cdent.tumblr.com/ -
climBing
Over the weekend ben and I went climbing at a place called Portland. It's known as something of a southern sport climbing mecca. The area is a limestome lump of an island jutting out into the English Channel near Weymouth, my birthplace.
Looks like this:
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geeking
To distract myself from miscellaneous stresses I spent a few hours this evening working on my little project, called simper. It started out as a way to learn python and write a sort of wiki, blog, cms kind of thing that I would eventually use, while also playing with some ideas about document linking and associating ( Read more... )