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Most weeks, I feel like for every N items on my plate, I have enough time to accomplish N-1 or N-2 of them, and I’m generally okay with that. If things slide a little, so what, as long as I get to them eventually. This week, I feel like I can only get […]

Well, I never saw this one coming: the Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible.

Mood:befuddled

A spot of interesting reading: Times Online article on the biology of happiness. We may, in fact, be hardwired by millennia of cognitive development to accentuate the negative. Can we learn to prolong and improve our lives simply by finding ways to outwit countless generations of neurological heritage?

Mood:intrigued

Were you a budding computer geek in the mid 1980’s? Deadly Hippos has an interview with Philip Bouchard, one of the designers of the immortal Apple II game Oregon Trail. Good stuff that really brings back memories… If you get similarly overcome with nostalgia, you can bust out the emulator and play […]

For ages, I have pooh-poohed Joss Whedon’s “Firefly”, thinking it a silly trifle of network TV, the kind of thing that can’t stand up to “real” sci-fi. “It’s no ‘B5′,” said I, despite how my coworkers tried to change my mind. Then the trailer for the movie arrived, and I started to wonder […]

The lovely folks at LEGO have brightened my day with what is a strong contender for Best Thing Ever: using their software, you can design and order custom LEGO models! The icing on the cake? There’s a Mac version as well as Windows. (Sorry, no Linux version, but two out of […]

Just closing some Safari tabs, and I’d rather link here than bookmark for some reason.
Hubble spies lord of the stellar rings (thanks to gieves for the link)
Das Keyboard, which I think I might want to try out.
Sloganizer (thanks to supercarrot for the link)
The Victorian Sex Cries Generator, stumbled upon through Neil Gaiman’s journal. Mildly […]

Behold: Kitten War!!!

Mood:giggly

I’ll be leaving the office shortly for PyCon, a Python conference in DC. I’m excited, because it’s the first time I’ve been able to get work to send me to something even moderately worthwhile (as opposed to my usual method of professional development, being chained to my desk), but I am also somewhat out-of-sorts, […]

Presenting a desperate attempt to stave off the boredom of a long, cold winter…
Behold!
hidethewookiee

Mood:silly