What I’ve been up to, November 2009 edition
I last posted a life update a week and a half ago. Since then: Had a lovely long dinner+conversation with...
Video roundup: animals edition
A bunch of nifty and/or cute animal videos: Encounter with a leopard shark. Yikes! Poor penguins. But still, fascinating. Baby...
Still more messed-up spam filtering
We sent out two rejections the other day that got bounce messages from a server between us and the intended...
Guest blogger on my word-blog
Over at my words-and-wordplay blog, Shmuel has joined me as a guest blogger. In his first entry, he discusses the...
Queer/marriage news from all over
Article from the Sunday Times (UK) says: "Lesbian parents better at raising children." I'm always leery of any claim that...
A followup survey
What do you wish you had in your pocketses? (Or other small regularly carried container.) (Must be something(s) that would...
A survey
What have you got in your pocketses? Added later: it occurs to me that this question discriminates against those who...
The night has been long, ditto ditto my song
Let's try that again. The past couple weeks have been kind of a blur. Or a daze. Or a dazed...
Die Zeitflieger
Can you tell I don't speak German? I started out wanting to say "time flies," and picked German more or...
Earworm: “I’m Yours”
Seems like I keep running into Jason Mraz's song "I'm Yours" lately, and every time I do, it runs through...
Writing tool + personalized customer interaction
I've been hearing a lot of good things about Scrivener lately. It's a Macintosh word-processing and document-management application for writers,...
Leonid meteors tonight and tomorrow night
BDan writes: The Leonids will be at their peak tonight and tomorrow, so go out and take a look (just...