The conclusion of Flint & Drake's Belisarius series, The Dance of Time is scheduled for release in February. That's good news for us alternate military history buffs. And because Jim Baen is a marketing genius, you can read the first nine chapters online.
Since I've stumbled into a job this winter, I gave myself a Christmas present: I bought two new disks[1], the idea being that I could run my desktop RAID-1 and finally have a spare disk to stick into my nominal Linux box
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o/~ Watching a vegetarian being told she just ate chicken; or watching a frat boy realize just what he put his dick in; being on an elevator, when somebody shouts "Hold the door!" No! Schadenfreude! Fuck you, William, that's what jails are for. o/~
Some of you are likely aware that I spent November obsessing about the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School Board case. To summarize the sumary of the summary: They amended the science standards to mandate that biology teachers inform students about the supposed "gaps" in evolution theory and the existence of "Intelligent Design". Parents who misliked
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"It's 106 miles to Arroyo, we got a full fusion cell, half a pack of Radaway, it's midnight, and I'm wearing a 50-year-old Vault 13 jumpsuit. Let's hit it."
The semester is nearly over. Counting the lecture I'm currently sitting in, there are three C++ lectures left, one of which will be devoted to a quiz
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