Maps!
I saw an internal demo of this a couple weeks ago, and I've been biting my tongue to avoid talking...
Wee, sleekit, cow’rin’, tim’rous beastie
A couple hours ago, I heard rustling from downstairs. No, not people poaching my cows; just a noise as of,...
Delivered to my door
After this morning's two phone calls from DHL and the update on their tracking page (see my comment on the...
Travel and visitors
This year is shaping up to be a busy one. Here's a rough version of the parts of my travel-and-visitors...
Return of the service demon
I've had remarkably good customer service (most of the time) for the past several weeks, so it's no surprise that...
Items: sf, comics
These are a little more connected, I guess, or maybe it's just that the theme is broader: Locus is doing...
Items: bodies, creating and disposing of
These don't quite have a unified theme, but they seem distantly connected: Ted pointed to a great MetaFilter thread on...
Mouse update
Yesterday, I called Orchard Supply Hardware to ask if they had live traps for mice. The person who answered the...
Submission report update
Now that January is over, here's the official count: The SH fiction department received 270 submissions in January of 2003;...
I want 2 proffred ur storey!
In the fanfic community, the verb to beta means to edit (and/or critique) someone else's story. Ceciliaregent points to some...
Who are you?
A few months back, Josh sent me a list of the LJ users who were subscribed to the LiveJournal feed...
Movable Type
I'm installing Movable Type to see if it'll be a more user-friendly journaling system (for a nontechnical friend who wants...