WHAT, YOU'RE STILL ON LIVEJOURNAL?

WHY?

WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE????

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This is hereby my last blog post ever to be cross-posted from DreamWidth to LiveJournal.

Would love to see y'all on DreamWidth. Same user name there.

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There I was, in a grocery store in Canada, looking at the bacon. None of the bacon looks like "Canadian bacon" (i.e. what's called "Canadian bacon" in U.S. restaurants). I got some bacon that's as Canadian as can be: grown and processed in Canada, of a Canadian brand named "Maple Leaf". Looks and tastes like American bacon ( Read more... )

Tomorrow at 1:00 pm I am going to go to the hearing in the Massachusetts State House on carbon pricing legislation. It will be in the largest hearing room in the state house, the Gardner Auditorium ( Read more... )

I wish to launder my large, thick comforter. Although the big washing machine in the laundry room downstairs claims to be a triple-load washer, I don't believe it's big enough to handle the comforter. I could cram the comforter in there, but I believe prior experience shows that it doesn't properly tumble, and the cleansing does not penetrate the ( Read more... )

We have a PC, running Windows 7, which Sophia inherited from Rich. We don't have a password for this PC, which has not been an obstacle for Sophia using it because it automatically logs in; but, I think this might present an obstacle for, oh, installing security patches. Yeah ( Read more... )

Article on the fucked-up economics of publishing scientific research.

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Astonishingly, buying a plane ticket for a trip only 10 days out turned out to be not all that expensive. Maybe it would be for a further trip, but, I guess, the flight to D.C. is so not a big deal ( Read more... )

Relevant to trying to not be that person who's too anxious to ever move a bishop, knight, or queen out into the middle of the board, I'm planning to spontaneously do a bit of extra traveling. At first I thought "this is going to be so hard" but the plan is coming together, maybe it won't be that hard.

Original plan was to take the bus organized by ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I played chess with my mother for the first time in at least 40 years. I rarely play chess and hadn't played a human opponent in decades. Observations of how I behave in a chess game ( Read more... )