When Martin was in the NICU, the nurses gave us a hat. It was bright yellow, crocheted. They didn't say, but I'm sure they got it either from a hospital-based or a wider-reaching crafting charity. I've never actually run out of projects far enough to start making stuff for one of those, but I know the type. Anyway, the hat looked like the sort of ( Read more... )

I think it was someone on my flist here who complained awhile ago about how Google Chrome's behavior on opening a link in a new tab put the tabs in the wrong order if you were, for example, opening a bunch of stories from a news site, wanting to read them in the order they were opened. (Google opens new tabs next to the tab that opened them; ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, we find out if tactisle gets to stop taking the scary drugs in 6 months, or if they're to become a permanent fixture.

Also tomorrow, I must decide what project I'm going to work on next, although 2 of the options haven't yet gotten back to me about whether they really have space for me or not.

Skyler is in the hospital. He has a deep-vein thrombosis ( Read more... )

So it turns out, there are no fire halls available for our usual Chocolate Party weekend (Feb 21). We're considering alternate dates. Also, Skyler will still be recovering from surgery on his foot, so I'll need more help than usual. Any answer or lack thereof here will not be binding (except that we're going to choose the actual party date in the ( Read more... )

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I've started making Flying Spaghetti Monster hats. Well, OK, so far I've only been making the underlying hats, not the decorations, but I'll be starting on the rest soon. They'll look something approximating this when done, but without the ear flaps:


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So I promised you all a little explanation of that poll I posted awhile back, and then never got around to it. Nothing is getting done at work this afternoon, so here I am ( Read more... )

I've been doing this literature course on CD. I read so much anyway, and it seemed like an interesting thing to do. This poll is partly inspired by that, and partly, well, I'll tell you more about it in a day or two.

Poll

A couple of months ago, on one of the public whiteboards in the halls of the office, I saw a dollar. It was held to the whiteboard with magnets, and there were notes around it saying "Free money! Take!" and such. Also a note saying "This money cannot exist, because in an efficient market someone has already taken it." And one responding to that ( Read more... )