Happy birthday, patsmor. Hope you're enjoying England!

Tonight, the damndest thing happened: the guy I voted for won an election. The person I voted _for_, rather than the placeholder I used for voting _against_, won an election. First time since ... well, forever, since before this election I've never had a candidate I could honestly support ( Read more... )

Oh, my. Paul Krugman at the NY Times directs us to this article [PDF] by John McCain in the Sept./Oct. 2008 issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries ( Read more... )

Some of you have been asking recently about the server that had the MP3s of Leigh Ann's music on it -- it's been down for a long time, and "Real Soon Now" has come and gone several times trying to get it back. Well, okay, so I punted; but they're back now ( Read more... )

Aeron, hyla_regilla's Himalayan cat, died in the wee hours this morning, aged not quite 14. Went to sleep on a blanket, didn't wake up. Goodbye to the sweetest cat I ever knew. Fare well ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, motogrrl. I love you.

Not exactly spam haiku, but. Hoping it makes you smile ...

The titles of the first 5 message in my spam "almost certainly" file since I last cleaned my traps:

Describe your day
If you are looking for
third world debt
Oprah raises money for Obama fundraiser
Describe your day

...and the last 3:

consumer credit
Join best casin0
to get out of debt

Lately, my home email has been getting several spams per day with the title "christian debt relief". Just a thought, but: didn't someone already allegedly do that for me, a couple thousand years ago?

Aw, shucks. Because I'm sufficiently bored, an end to radio silence ( Read more... )

It's an anniversary. Hooray. One year ago today, give or take about 5 hours as I write this, Leigh Ann died.

But, what I actually came here to say is: everyone who knows me in this forum also knows Leigh Ann. In fact, most of the people I know here, I know because I know Leigh Ann. From pagandom, the SCA, SF fandom, music, WetLeather, the OTO -- ( Read more... )