When my wife's alarm clock went off at 5:30 AM, she said to me, "When did you get in last night?"
Me: "3:30."
Her: "Yeah. I woke up at 2:30, and you weren't in yet. I thought, Those idiots*, and went back to sleep."
Those idiots were me and my cow-orker Craig, and the [...]
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This morning came awful early
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Contemplating a tattoo
…someday. And so here're the ones currently under consideration:
Two ravens, along with a quote from verse 80 of Hávamál: "Praise ice when over it". (But ideally, translated into Icelandic.)
This — the cherry blossom eight-sided mirror symbol of Kodokan Judo.
Eppur si muove — Galileo's (probably apocryphal) rebuttal to his forced confession that the Earth [...]
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The jetpack theory
42. Jetpack
Discovered in tom gauld's Flickr photostream.
Tom Gauld has it right. 100% right, IMHO.
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Triple threat
I'm kind of a sucker for certain things:
Images of galaxies — I love the great whorls of stars that make up the visible mass of the Universe
The history of science, especially physics and astronomy
A clever title
So it was probably inevitable that I'd check this book out of the library today:
I'll let you know what I [...]
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Profoundly [something]
Dead Tauntaun Cake
Discovered in Official Star Wars Blog's Flickr photostream.
…where [something] is either awesome or disturbing.
Awesturbing?
Maybe there just aren't words yet for what this is. Maybe the cake-maker has transcended the capacity of the English language.
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Movie review: Moon
About an hour ago, the credits rolled on Moon. I went into the film knowing very little: the only trailer I'd seen featured Sam Rockwell looking disheveled, and had Kevin Spacey as a HAL-style AI that communicated via a combination of even, soothing tones, and smiley faces.
I won't post any spoilers here, but suffice [...]
Indispensable for writers…
…the latest Dresden Codak webcomic wossname deals up a list of the Essential 3rd Act Twists.
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Tom Gauld, my new favourite cartoonist
42. Jetpack
Discovered in tom gauld's Flickr photostream.
…hits the nail right on the head with this one.
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Hello, lappy
So this is my first post from my laptop. Say hello to my ten-year-old IBM 390E running Xubuntu.
Yes, I know I'm a nerd.
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Some of what I wrote tonight
More writing in Once I Was You, involving an old French song and a pastoral vacation. This bit is set on a world called Cloedine, where our POV character is taking a break from her work as an envoy. She keeps hearing snippets of some ancient song:
À la claire fontaine
M'en allant promener
I sat [...]
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