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Continue reading →: Happy New Year!
No, I’ve not converted to Judaism; today is the first day of the US government 2009 fiscal year. And I get to go to work this morning. Funding for my lab is not immediately disappearing, though it is not completely secure since there is no Federal budget and we’re on…
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Continue reading →: Dear Bank of America
The first I knew that my credit card number had been stolen was when I received a fraud notice from you. This was only a day after the number had been stolen, though the card was still in my possession. It must have been somebody at that restaurant we’d eaten…
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Continue reading →: Big numbers
The northeastern United States: 12 states 299 counties 589525180 30m x 30m grid cells My not-so-new computer isn’t very happy with me right now.
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Continue reading →: The bloggy thing
The LJ Crossposter decided that a subset of my archive should be sent over to LiveJournal. That was kind of odd, so I just sent the rest of the archive. My entire back catalog, such as it is, should now appear on LJ as well as String Notes. (I still…
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Continue reading →: Quick Photo-update
Upon being introduced to fresh figs: T: That’s odd. It doesn’t taste anything like a Fig Newton. B (source of figs): Sorry, I don’t have a Newton-tree in my yard. Maybe you had to be there… And pretty, pretty shiny fiber: And now, back to Thing 1…
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National Punctuation Day
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Continue reading →: National Punctuation DayToday is National Punctuation Day: Strike out incorrect apostrophe‘s. Eliminate excess exclamations!!!!!!!! Erase, the overabundant, comma. Keep “your” quotation marks corralled.
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Continue reading →: In memoriam
Life is fragile. One slip, repairing a roof, can shake the foundations of a Kingdom, leave family and friends heartbroken. Life endures. Morguhn will continue to serve as long as there is strength in any single part of him, though the man we knew is no more.
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Continue reading →: Cooking summer
Roasted Whatever Take whatever you have lots of in the garden right now, plus whatever herbs are handy. Chop the herbs, mix with a bit of sea salt and some olive oil. Chop the whatever (tomatoes, in this case), or not as need be. Toss with the herbs and oil,…
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Continue reading →: Wow!
The LJ Crosspost (ljxp) plugin works, more or less. I had to comment out line 527 of the PHP code, and I still get an error, but it does post both places. Happy now??? :)
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Continue reading →: A day to myself
Ah… a Saturday at home alone. Nick is off doing SCA stuff, and I’m here doing… whatever I want! After a lazy morning, I put on Amanda Palmer‘s new album, and set to it. I’ve cleaned the kitchen and put away all the crap in the dining room so I…
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I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
I’m Phiala most places on the internet.
