It'll be a busy, busy week, but it's high time I remember to use this account and read back a bit, catch as catch can, to see what I've been missing. Mostly I'll be blogging at WP and linking here so as to avoid all manner of head-scratching as to what goes where :)

New personal blog, Skeptical Solipsist

Dear DC area residents. I fear I may owe you an apology. I only just heard about the 3.6 earthquake a little while ago upon waking. It's not that I missed it. It just happens that at 5:06 AM EST I was engaged in the sort of activity that prompts one to ask, "did you feel the earth move ( Read more... )

Kerik Is Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison in Corruption Case

You ever try to make sense out of someone else's half-baked idea? The general notion of it is there in their head, but it's still just that, only a general notion. It's an idea of an idea trying to happen. If you're the owner of that half-baked idea and try to communicate it, nothing sensible comes out. No way can the listener get it. Until ( Read more... )

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Go look it up :P

Seriously: First I've heard of this new featureAs it happens, I was mucking about in Google translate when I noticed the addition of Haitian Creole BETA. For completely Haiti-unrelated reasons, I was looking up translations of the phrase "host of despair" and thought, hrm. Wo dezespwa, indeed. Translating that back into ( Read more... )

Completing one's email address as name@host (whilst omitting the critical .wtf in the address ( Read more... )

Completing an application for a certificate needed to maintain licensure in the worst possible handwriting. Good luck getting that delivered correctly with yer name spelled right ( Read more... )