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Writing: level up! (through shame)
Last week I finished the first chapter of The Tinker's Daughter, which might end up being called The Tinker's Children. I asked avivasedai for feedback; she read through it and we had a conversation that went a little somethin' like this:
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My microwave is magical!
I made myself some tea this morning, and then I started playing harp; when I finished the tea was stone cold. No problem, this is why God Percy Spencer invented the microwave. I go over, opened the door...and there was tea there! Even more amazing: it looked exactly like the mug of tea that I made yesterday and never drank ( Read more... ) -
Fun with Desktops
El Capitan has a new1 feature, which is Desktops. The way this works is that you have 'Desktop 1' and you put windows on it. Then you can create 'Desktop 2' and put windows on THAT, and so on. Only one desktop is visible at a time and you can slide between them to see different sets of windows. For example, you might have a Desktop for "work- ( Read more... ) -
El Capitan stuffs it up with SSL
Well, this has been a fun day. The following is programming/techy stuff, so it's that's not your bag feel free to skip.
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Data transferred, first impressions
Short form: on OSX 10.11, is there a way to search for more than one tag at a time? How about a way to see my home directory without manually creating a symlink?
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Computers, for good and ill
My computer is dying. The DVD drive hasn't worked in over a year, a few months ago the USB ports stopped working, several of the keys (notably e, a, m, and recently r) are flaky, and it is literally falling apart: the screws that hold the case together are getting loose, and I have to keep tightening them again. Two of them have already fallen ( Read more... ) -
Woot! The carpets, they are clean!
I talked to Trinity about getting the carpets replaced. They said they'd get the guy out to do an estimate on what it would cost to replace them.
In the meantime, I found Bay Area Carpet Cleaning. They came in and for $109 and 25 mins or so, they made the carpets look almost new again. They were moderately wet-to-damp for about 18 hours, but ( Read more... ) -
Trinity Property Management of San Francisco: Where shoddy and shabby are good for business!
The carpets in my apartment are old, beige, and stained. They've been like that since I moved in. After 6 years I decided I couldn't take it any more. I thought "well, maybe I can get them replaced?" So I called my landlord (Trinity). I was told that no, company policy is not to replace carpet during tenancy. I asked if this was regardless ( Read more... ) -
Obama says we can own asteroids!
Woot! We can own asteroids.
Many asteroids are literally worth trillions of dollars; this is a great reason for people to fund space development. Since "space development" includes things like space-based solar power (unlimited energy!), this is great news.