Hey, any of you out there doing the NaNoWriMo thing this coming November? I'd love to add you as a Writing Buddy! Feel free to add me if you want. User name is the same as it is here... Tark.

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands ( Read more... )

Thanks for the trial issues of Paste! I'm listening the the CD now and am thoroughly enjoying it! If the second issue I get is as good as this they'll have anothe subscriber. Thanks for turning me on to it!

There are some interesting comments from Google VP Vint Cerf in this article. I happen to agree with the "net neutrality" principles, so I'm glad to see someone else is taking it seriously too.

a) pick up a book which is the closest to you at the moment
b) open page 123
c) find the third sentence
d) post it in your Live Journal (plus the instructions)
e) don't choose the book, just pick up the one closest to you

"I'm sorry about the whole protect-my-wife thing, that was just to confuse them ---"
- from Betrayal, by Aaron Allston

Hey, all you Conspiracy Theorists out there, have you seen this?

Could this be true?

I like my floor / lava lamp. It's fun to watch.

... tell me computers don't have a sense of humor! I was spell checking some notes I'd taken at a linux user group meeting and the spell checker caught 'fsck', which is a disk partitioning program. Here's what it suggested at a replacement. I laughed myself silly!


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Just cut the grass for the first time this season. As I was guiding the dust monster I contemplated how many more times I'll be eating dust before the season's over. Yay.

Ganked shamelessly from my lady love, hamadryad:

Go to Wikipedia, enter in your birth date but not the year. List three neat events, two births and one death.

Here's what I came up with when I used mine, April 23. Let me tell you, there were a lot of choices. It was difficult to pin down.

Events

1533 - The Church of England annuls the marriage between ( Read more... )