I'm going to Worldcon, in Chicago, in a couple of weeks. I have a sleeping room for four people reserved in the main hotel. Unfortunately, two or the three people with whom I was to be sharing have had to drop out. Is there anyone out there in friends-listland who would like to or who knows anyone who might like to join us?

On this date, in 1991, Con_girl and I decided to try being a couple. Twenty years! OMGWTFBBQ[other acronyms and expressions of amazement and delight]!!!!1!!eleventy!! Yay!

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Hello, all you lovely people.

Do you know anyone (yourself included) who prefers voice-activation over keypad response to prompts in automatic telephone customer service systems?

I am embarrassed. Mortified. If you don't see me around it may be that I've died of it. I took a bus to Montreal to catch a lift to the Boston area, with a friend. When I got in the car, he asked everyone whether we had our passports. I hadn't even thought about it ( Read more... )

Two fun things that I found following interesting-looking links from PDQ Bach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_dKCrKJR7Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yflWG-e38OU

My, oh my...

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I’ve been somewhat in charge of building on a file system at work. There's been a bunch of thinking about what subjects will be covered by future documents. We’re building ships so there’s lots of hull this end engine that. There's also a section under Information Systems that includes such subjects as ( Read more... )

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Pronunciation guide and map. Neato!

This evening, around 7:00, as I was walking home from the bus, with Raynedaze, I saw a police car sitting at the corner, in front of my house. A moment later, it took off at high speed. We wondered what was happening here, in my usually very quiet neighbourhood ( Read more... )