khedron

an unexpected Thanksgiving guest

khedron Nov 27, 2012 23:34

Click to embiggen the Great Horned Owl in my in-law's back yard.

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things I've liked lately (NPR edition)

khedron Nov 16, 2012 21:58

1. The interviews with the Rolling Stones on NPR this week. They've putting out a new album and going on a limited tour! I caught Keith Richards & Mick Jagger when they aired; I'll have to listen to Charlie Watts & Ron Wood later.

2. Martha Stewart on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me". Maybe I'm going daft, but I thought the story about not being ( Read more... )

inspiration for "Dracula"

khedron Oct 30, 2012 11:52

Here's a slate story on the inspiration for "Dracula".

Apple Maps, all is forgiven!

khedron Sep 28, 2012 13:50

I know some guy (Tim Cook) wrote an apology for the changes in the Maps app this morning. And in all honesty, it's deserved -- we've all seen or heard about the crazy results & deficiencies in the new program. But here's my story about living in the future ( Read more... )

fix for Aperture plugins that stopped working with v3.4

khedron Sep 25, 2012 11:10

In the unlikely event that anyone reading this a) is using Apple Aperture, and b) had plugins that stopped working with the update to ver. 3.4, read this ( Read more... )

that's what Bilbo Baggins hates

khedron Sep 16, 2012 01:02

E. was reading this today, and it reminded me of the Hobbit. The boy even looks like one! The dwarves, alas, are being viewed unkindly through the eyes of someone protective of his larder...

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away camping

khedron Jul 28, 2012 06:19

Away camping. That's all.

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the XKCD you can see is not the true XKCD

khedron Apr 04, 2012 09:27

I read XKCD on Monday morning. Of course I did, I always do; it's a daily habit. And I saw the title, and I saw the hover-over text, and I thought, hm, that's mildly curious, but I didn't look further.

Apparently I was missing out.

The hover-text read:Umwelt is the idea that because their senses pick up on different things, different animals in ( Read more... )

guess I should've paid for Amazon Prime!

khedron Apr 01, 2012 16:32

Remember my long-delayed Brust order? I figured it was just something that's slipped through the cracks, but there's been an update. This is *not* an April Fool's joke -- at least, not by me. The joke could definitely be on me, but I'll have to wait & see!

("April 3rd! That's soon... Oh!")

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Google privacy, etc.

khedron Feb 23, 2012 00:02

"New privacy policy consolidates all your activity data at google.com unless you erase it first"

I'm not going to bother. Edit: I am going to bother, because I don't think I gain anything by Google having this ( Read more... )