It's sad that the best thing we can say is "Well, we survived Andrew Jackson," but - at least we did survive Andrew Jackson.

One component of admission to practice as an attorney is the multiple-choice ethics exam. The best advice I got about this exam was that the people who consistently fail this exam are people who try to pick the most ethical answer; that the goal is to pick the least ethical answer which is still allowed by the rules. This sounds awful to a lot of ( Read more... )

David Bowie has been one of my favorite artists at least as long as I have had access to a CD player - Hunky Dory was one of the first CDs we got. I've probably listened to that album more than any other single album. But as much as I love his music, and as much as I adore his passionate, spectacular life, the thing I love most about David Bowie is ( Read more... )

Well, crap. The Girl Who Died / The Woman Who Lived have made me care about Doctor Who again.

But looking at the schedule, I see that the last two episodes of the season are credited solely to Moffat. So I know that only heartbreak lies ahead.

Last year, on the first Sunday in November, I ran my first half marathon in 2:45:36. Since then, I've run over 450 miles, and today I ran another half marathon in 2:06:09. I definitely feel better right now than I did after the first one. The first time, I thought to myself "there is no way I will ever run a marathon." Today, I am thinking to ( Read more... )

Are the singer-protagonists of Time For Me To Fly and Keep On Loving You addressing each other? I'm pretty sure they are.

So here's a compromise, of sorts. I'm now using Facebook in write-only mode. It's just going to be a mirror of my livejournal from here on out. I'll pop into Facebook from time to time just to check the notifications ( Read more... )

What we have done in the 35 minutes since waking up, thanks to the two-year-old ( Read more... )

On Usenet* there was a thread about a no-knead bread recipe. Some people had a lot of success with it, some people weren't so impressed, and one dude couldn't make it work *at all*, and was very upset eager to let everyone know how smart he was. So he responded listing all the things he had done to fix the recipe - changing proportions, adding ( Read more... )

Huh. Apparently, I'm a spammer. I tried to post the following as a comment to this post:"Also, alien dog-analogs die ( Read more... )