Category: lj-import

Well, this is a day late (because the internet was absolutely not working last night), but that\’s okay. Happy birthday, dear sister. I hope you had a lovely day. And now you\’re old! Heh heh heh. Here\’s your birthday present:

This is a touching discovery of a pair of 3000-4000 year old skeletons eternally locked in a tender embrace. Ann writes well of it, so I\’ll pass you along to her. [ read Ann\’s post ] [ read the article ]

It looks like the Bush administration has finally admitted that global warming might actually be a real problem: In a grim and powerful assessment of the future of the planet, the leading international network of climate scientists has concluded for the first time that global warming is “unequivocal” and that human activity is the main…

If you make one, it is likely that someone else has made the same mistake, in a more important setting. Take, for example, a common search and replace in an html page. If you have a bunch of <div> tags, and you want to replace them with more semantically correct <p> tags, you might do…

A few nights ago I had a dream. It was the most internally-consistent and plot-driven dream I have ever had, as far as I can remember. An excerpt: A few friends and I were standing in a dark forest. Above us, silhouetted against a twilit cliff face was a large puma. It turned towards us…

I'm a occasional Facebooker. I accept many friend requests, but I can't remember when I last made one myself. Some of my closest friends also have this strategy. So, today, I added Cami and Becky and Aaron, along with a few others. I thought it was a shame that I have a bunch of Facebook…

I feel like an addicted man who has been denied his pleasure for a month, finally getting back on it. I'm back in Spokane with my computer.

Chinese facing shortage of wives China will have 30 million more men than women by 2020 making it hard for them to find wives, a report says. Mexico leader in tortilla pledge Mexico's President Calderon vows to tackle the soaring price of tortillas, the flat corn bread which is a diet staple. Also, Making Light…

So, you may remember Aaron Brown's post about torsion of the testis. I assumed that it was a morbid way to kill someone, but I was wrong. Most people have some structure that keeps their testicles from moving around too much. Overexcited genitals can get themselves into trouble without such structures. Apparently I'm some mutant…

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at…