The Daily Dot "Why Etsy's Brave New Economy is Crumbling ( Read more... )

This is in response to "Will Success Ruin Etsy?" by Megan McArdle ( Read more... )

A friendly face ( Read more... )

Thanks, K.A., for posting good TED talks until, unemployed as I am, I finally start to look at them. Here's one that's about electroconvulsive therapy, and I'm posting this because I want to have it somewhere that I can find it. It's not just about ECT. (I like to collect educational media about mind, brain, and mental illness, that if I were an ( Read more... )

So I'm in Al-anon. It is a fruitful enterprise. I am still having my own personal problems with the god thing, though. The groups have been above complaint in this regard. They are really not specific. It would just be so much easier to do the 12 steps as a committed monotheist than as a skeptical agnostic. There are plenty of 12 steppers ( Read more... )

Mostly I want to remind myself of this blog so that I can adulate and ask her questions later.

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I don't think I ever posted about my chickens.( Read more... )

Got a computer. It's a 15" laptop from THinkpenguin, which means it runs on Linux (Mint, version 13.) I in my living room. I happy ( Read more... )

To restore my mood after an unfortunate parking lot dispute earlier last Saturday, I paid the $7 gate fee and went in. ( Read more )