There are so many dandelion parachutes in the air that I am not entirely convinced a flock of geese did not explode somewhere in the vicinity.

You'd be amazed by the sort of things that get past security on US property, or even how long it could take any one to realise something was wrong. I suppose I've gotten used to a lot in the past few months... Our room is right on a field about a stone's throw from the woods, so deer flocking within a foot of our window twenty or thirty at a time ( Read more... )

Snowballs!

I have a different phone. Not a new phone, not even a new number, but something that should actually behave as some sort of long-distance communication device.

The Amazing Screw-On Head is my favourite comic ever.

My glee can only be expressed with incoherent gibbering.

My father and brother bring warm weather with them when they travel, apparently I bring transit strikes.

I am back in Pittsburgh, at least until the third, probably until some time in the future.

I will be gone for roughly a week beginning April 15thish; discovering the horrible implications of such is left as an exercise to the reader.

"(For the rigor freaks who know something about mathematical set theory: Is what I just did legit? In particular, do I need the power of the axiom of choice to make this construction work?) (If you don't know what the axiom of choice is, please ignore the previous remark at peril of your sanity ( Read more... )

I have mopped up more quarts of 'water' than hours of sleep I will get tonight.

Also, the boiler bears my name, it's somewhat disconcerting.

As some of you may know, AEPi's booths have a legacy of lacking in structural integrity once every five or so years. They were due for a mishap last year, but were fortunately able to avoid it. Unfortunately, it meant that they were over due this Carnival ( Read more... )