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Bomb throwing
I keep telling myself I need to get back into LJ rather than Facebook, as the conversations here are much more useful. This, of course, requires I actually do something with LJ rather than think about doing something about LJ.
So here's a contribution, based on some discussion elsewhere.
Several folks in the other discussion commented that names ( Read more... ) -
A favorite moment from Anthrocon 2010
Today I stumbled over one of my favorite photos from Anthrocon, 2010 ( Read more... ) -
Out of Context Quotes
Lasted in our series of out-of-context quotes, this time from Furry Connection North. No, I have no idea why some of these things were said. Others . . . well, I'm not talking. In most cases, I've removed the names of the speaker ( Read more... ) -
Side-benefit of working Furry Connection North
We're working Furry Connection North in April, and I've been attending the occasional convention committee meeting since they're local. Todays meeting was not only productive and interesting, but had a side benefit. This was the week they do the beer tasting to decide what goes in the hospitality suite. We're 12 beers into the list of 18, and two ( Read more... ) -
So You Think You Can Dance review
Except for the final awards, the 6th season of SYTYCD is done. My opinion ( Read more... ) -
Slices of life, part 2 - baby hunger
About six months after Kate was born I went out of town for a full-week conference. Things were perking along just fine until someone with a baby in a stroller went by. At that moment I desperately missed Kate and desperately wanted to pick up that baby and coddle it. Since then I've found that happening any time I was away from the kids for an ( Read more... ) -
Bad Code of the Day
This two-line subroutine, with the name of the actual subroutine changed to protect . . . well, to protect somebody, was stumbled across during a review of other code today. There was no comment anywhere close to it, and the name didn't give much of a hint as to what it did:
int check_something_incomprehensible(void *a, char *value ( Read more... ) -
New musical
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Summer!?
Wow. It's supposed to get into the 90s Sunday and Monday, with rain. They will be the first real summer days we've had this year. I was beginning to think it wouldn't happen at all.