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livejournal is my new this is my jam I guess
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Halloween
Halloween is different for Sabrina and me, because October 31st is the day that she and her mother decided to leave her abusive father. (Seven days later, he took his own life.) Little things about the season that other people find enjoyable, or don't even notice-people dressing up in costumes, jack-o-lanterns, the leaves turning color, even just ( Read more... ) -
HOWDY
I issued this challenge on Twitter and I wanted to let you know that I am not a hypocrite. I have been posting a bunch of stuff, but it's all been friends-only! If we know each other and you'd like to read, friend me up and I'll friend you back. -
Clothiers stop without a farmhouse near
I teach a class in making computer programs that manipulate text. One of the examples I teach is a program called "rand_replace.py," which takes some input and randomly replaces words in that input with words from a Scrabble dictionary. (For every word in the input, there's a one-in-eight chance that the word will be randomly replaced in the output ( Read more... ) -
Music in 2010
For better or worse, I've been paying about as much attention to music lately as I pay to books and movies-i.e., I'm a consumer, not a connoisseur. I do a bit of digging on my own, but most of my non-video game media purchases are helter-skelter, word-of-mouth affairs. Just the same, there was a bunch of music that came out this year than I bought ( Read more... ) -
Chocolate oatmeal
I can't decide if this was the best idea (because it was delicious) or the worst idea (because it probably had like nine thousand calories ( Read more... )
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