I really love book release days. Yay, books ( Read more... )

I'm almost embarrassed to post this, because it's so darn positive, really, I guess. Far more than the personal stuff. This morning while eating breakfast I read a random story about women dealing with their history of abuse, and one of the comments was from a woman just starting to deal with her own, and how much she felt like she couldn't even ( Read more... )

Sometimes the best thing about working in a *nix environment is the selection of big hammers that it gives you. (No, really, I thought I had my modelling environment entirely working before going to bed last night. In fact, I just had all the parts I actually care about working, as opposed to silly things like dropping movies.)

1. Okay, so it was flaky for me to leave putting my studden tires on until this morning. But to have the only tube in that size - and a new tube, and so far unpatched, to really, I wasn't totally insane to think I was good to go - split along the inside seam? Bah ( Read more... )

I gave someone my LJ address, saying I was going to post all these pictures there... and then decided the ello photo handling interface was easier to deal with considering. So I give you, People Hiding Alone at Neurosciences. #SfNretreathttps://ello.co/tylik/post/

As promised, giant slugs. ( Read more... )

So, how many of you are on Diaspora? Do you use it? Why or why not? (I'm tylik on http://diasp.org )

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Also? The incredible animus that has been being expressed towards geek women over the last bit? Is terrible. And depresses the hell out of me.

(I've thought about writing something like this many times. It's possible I already have. If so, sorry ( Read more... )

Also... Has anyone read CJ Cherryh's Cyteen and it's sequel written twenty years later Regenesis? And might you be interested in discussing it ( Read more... )