Our group is looking for a new software engineer ( Read more... )

( For all my LARPing friends who'd like to have some basic knowledge for LARPing medical emergencies, this post is for you. You don't need to be an EMT to be useful; in fact, if you're not practicing as an EMT, then being an EMT is seriously overkill. )

Now that we have good weather up here in Boston, there's a pretty good sighting opportunity of the space station tonight ( Read more... )

My car windshield has a giant crack in it. Any recommendations or anti-recommendations of places ( Read more... )

From mail I got today via the Broadcast MGH mailing list:

H1N1 vaccine clinics Jan. 27 and 28We would like to remind all MGH employees - as well as ask staff to remind their patients and their patients’ families - that the H1N1 and seasonal flu seasons are not yet over, and now is still a very good time to get vaccinated. Generally, flu cases ( Read more... )

Signs went up at Alewife today saying that Alewife<->Harvard traffic will be done via bus shuttles for Saturday and Sunday.

(Background: A friend of mine has just started running, and a friend of hers asked about it, and I got pointed at. Eep! :) So here goes ( Read more... )

So we got a refurbished HP Mini 1010NR, yay. One interesting/alarming thing is that it has an 8G SSD, but Windows takes up, oh, 5G. I'm throwing cygwin+emacs onto it, so I have about 2G left. It also came with a 2G USB flash drive -- it's very tiny, so it sits flush to the machine (as opposed to a thumb drive). So I'm not hosed for storage ( Read more... )

Alyse and I are thinking of getting ( Read more... )

So, naturally, it's hard to do a review of a book written by a friend. What am I going to say, "it was only okay?"

No worries, though; I thoroughly enjoyed Fortune's Folly. To those who know Deva Fagan, this is fairly unsurprising: she is a very creative and intelligent lady.

It's a children's story. The teaser from the inside jacket cover:
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