Do you live in the Madison area?  Are you driven insane by the constant bombardment of the Shopper Stopper, that newsprint collection of coupons to businesses which you have never and will never patronize and which is thus deposited in the recycling bin before it ever reaches your front door?  Do you cringe at the many trees giving their lives for ( Read more... )

Whee!  Rockapella!  Whee!

That's the summary, in case you're skimming your flist today.  Just got home from my free concert and it was awesome, as usual.  I love seeing people see them for the first time.  They get this surprised impressed look on their face, like their whole brain just went, "Oh.  I get it now ( Read more... )

Are any of my Madison pals wanting to go to the PostSecret event  tonight?  I'm wavering, but if anyone else is going, then I'll definitely go.

Event description:
Come join Frank Warren, creator of PostSecret.com for a memorable talk and book signing. Frank will explain how PostSecret got started, talk about some of the secrets that were banned from ( Read more... )

GOOD Lord.  A bicyclist in my town had his head run over by a truck and all he got was a concussion and a really, really mangled bike helmet.  I'm just ... whoa.  I can't even process that.  (thanks to cabell for the link ( Read more... )

Spring Break Accomplishments Update:

• Finished getting rid of duplicate files in iTunes library
• Began rebuilding iTunes playlists - am up to letter "C"
• Emailed professor with idea for Top Model paper
• Switched out all 43 icons for new batch
• Finished rereading all of remix_redux assignment's fics

Wow, the buses aren't running at all - they stopped at 6 pm tonight, and will resume "as soon as the weather allows" tomorrow, which isn't expected to be until noon.  Crazy.  I wonder if the lab will be open.  I can't decide whether I'd get more done there than at home.  Staying home sounds cozier, but not losing a day of pay would be, oh, nice ( Read more... )

Hmm.  rm_renfield and I had decided to wait and see what the weather was like before deciding about the Inferno tonight.  Right now, for example, it's not snowing, and the plows have been through, and we barely got a couple inches last night.  However, this morning the National Weather Service has solemnly informed me that ( Read more... )

Wow.  That was much, much worse than I thought.  rm_renfield and I have just finished Bloodrayne, and by "finished", I mean, "finally turned off the DVD out of self-defense, 25 minutes from the end."  After ( Spoiler )

Oh, sure.  130 schools in the area (including colleges) are closed today for "bitterly cold temperatures," but UW is merrily staying open.  It is 12 below right now, with a wind chill of -30.  At ten o'clock in the morning ( Read more... )

When it's noon and the sun has been shining brightly all morning and your windchill is still 25 below?  It's chilly out ( Read more... )