I am on the cutting edge of Xubuntu LTS, woohoo!

Note to self: 10.04 was not why your s3fs wouldn't compile. It wanted dev versions of the required packages, is why it wouldn't compile.

The new Xubuntu interface (not Unity), though I already changed the theme and icons:


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I... never mentioned here that I had another baby 13 months ago? Sorry, I've kind of been on Facebook. Now I have a boy kindergartner and a girl almost-toddler. Someday I expect I'll have hobbies again, besides an obsession with BBC-sponsored escapism ( Read more... )

A couple hundred people in London got to see the first of three new BBC Sherlocks tonight. And they're not talking. Except to say how mindblowingly good it is, better than the best of last season.

!!!

C'mon, people, post some spoilers fer chrissake!

Yesterday the baby caught her brother's cold, learned to crawl, and stood up on her own.

I think that's not the first time she's made leaps while sick. I guess when we're sick maybe we forget what we can't do?

So glad I finally modified my home-grown RSS reader so it can access protected LJ posts! I haven't been reading LJ from LJ for a while. Looking forward to catching back up!

...driving past our house the last two days. It looks like something from the Brass Age, all shiny white with gold trim. Today I noticed that it was not just driving by on the main road; it turned at our corner, coming out from our own neighborhood before heading down the larger road ( Read more... )

Several years ago, I used to be able to talk to my parents about religion and politics. Now I can't even talk to them about the weather.

(Good thing there's a grandchild to talk about! And genealogy.)

Shortly after I wrote the last entry, I stopped listening to Animal Collective. I'd digested the albums I have. When you can listen to your favorite parts anytime you want by playing them in your head, who needs MP3's? I had a near-constant soundtrack of them running inside ( Read more... )

It's been 7 months now of compulsive Animal Collective listening. I have the album I started with, two of their earlier albums, a solo album from one of the members, and some live concert recordings, and I plan to buy more albums as I get to them ( Read more... )

Again I am overflowed with the odd corners of reality, courtesy of Teresa Nielsen Hayden, this time due to her footnotes in the Tor.com re-reading-with-commentary of the Sandman series ( Read more... )