Yes, LJ is dead. I would have liked to see things migrate to G+, but it doesn't look like that will happen. Here are some things that were, some things that are, and some things that have not yet come to pass ( Read more... )

Two Fridays ago, I got a vasectomy. I don't care for kids. I don't want kids. And I see no reason to spend the rest of my life putting the burden of birth control on my partner. So, snip snip ( Read more... )

I have been reading. This is unusual for me. It is a long time since I read regularly. It is something that has gnawed at me. I feel like I am less intelligent now than I was ten years ago. Well, not less intelligent. Less possessing of trivial knowledge. Less likely to do well as a Jeopardy contestant. And I do love Jeopardy ( Read more... )

I don't have a lot of memories of the old Gargoyles cartoon, but there are two things about it that have always rung clear in my head: that it was a pretty good show, and the cast was chock full of people from TNG. So I'm looking at the credits on IMDB and... while it's true that Riker, Troi, Worf, Data and Pulaski were all on the show, the last ( Read more... )

Linus died last Sunday. I haven't wanted to write in this journal because I felt like I needed to mention that before I mentioned anything else. At the same time, I have no interest in talking about Linus's death. It was sad thing, and awful, but the last thing I want to do right now is listen to people talking about how sorry they are for my ( Read more... )

Yew is dead. Long live Couma ( Read more... )

My phone is broken in a really stupid way. The same stupid way as the last time it broke, in fact. There is a design flaw which causes a short to develop in the power button circuitry, making it progressively more difficult to turn the phone on over time. Right now I am at the point where I can get it to turn on on maybe 1% of attempts ( Read more... )

I just got back from a week in Rochester ( Read more... )

I just sent my book to the printers. Holy shit I hope I got the margins right.

Allison leaves for London... five hours from now? Maybe six? I don't know. Soon. She had discussed with her biggest client the possibility of coming over there for a few days this summer, and last week the client responded with the only time that is good is five days from now. So Allison is going to London ( Read more... )