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That was zoomy
Dear god, Amazon's customer service is sometimes alarming. I feel mildly guilty shopping there at times, giant monopolizing megacorp, but they also do things right. Case in point: a few minutes ago, maybe 20, I noticed that two mp3 albums I purchased from Amazon before their cloud service existed weren't in my cloud player. So I went to customer ( Read more... ) -
Christmas present employed!
You wouldn't think that a 4 qt braising pan would be hard to find. The requirements were simple: oven-safe, low profile, loop handles instead of a long bar handle so it would fit in my small oven. But this seemed to be the killer: no cast iron, because I wanted something lighter if I was pulling it in and out of the oven filled with liquid. The ( Read more... ) -
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So someone, I think it was rfmcdpei, recently linked to a piece collecting laments on how technological change has slowed. Well, my grandmother also lived from before cars to after the moon landing, but I'm not going to be lamenting about missing out on technical change, because someone isn't looking in the right places ( Read more... ) -
2012 wrapup
Ended up skipping out on the NYE party, because I didn't think I was going to want to be out till midnight and curling up in a nice chair with candles and a book seemed more enchanting. Made it a little past midnight, long enough to hear the neighbors counting down the year, and then crashed. Had a very nice brunch of bacon, scrambled eggs, and ( Read more... ) -
A couple of Yuletide recs
I haven't poked much at Yuletide, but there are two that I can recommend to anyone at all familiar with their canons:
The most perfect companion to Pratchett's _Nation_ that I can imagine, The Light Always Burning. Just astonishing; the voice is dead on, and the content fills in the future history of the Nation in the most believable and ( Read more... ) -
The (soon to be former) house across the street.
Pretty thoroughly gutted. The back's even worse, but I didn't get a good shot of that.
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My neighborhood smells like a fireplace
Long time readers of this blog may remember the murder house across the street from me. Well, the house is no more, or mostly no more, as it caught on fire this evening. Possibly not by accident, from discussion with my neighbors, who saw it go from a single flicker at a window to wholly engulfed in fire in something like a minute. Plus one of the ( Read more... ) -
I hate propositions
Verbatim from the League of Women Voter's Smartvote ( Read more... ) -
bleargh
You know you are sick when making instant ramen seems like entirely too much effort. At least I have made it out of bed and into the living room for the first time in 20 hours.
