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Yes, there are now ads tucked away at the bottom of the rightleft sidebar and of the page as a whole. I don’t expect to retire on the revenue, but they’re there to help offset hosting costs (such as they are). update: now ads are in the left sidebar. They work better there.

So. Thanksgiving weekend was mostly consumed by a road trip to Oklahoma City. Here’s the ten-minute recap, which undoubtedly leaves out something important. Thursday was deliberately low-key. We had been planning to attend dinner with Fred’s family, but backed out when we learned that there would be members of his extended family there. Instead, we [...]

The construction workers redoing the lab across the hall from my office sort of started an acetylene fire this morning. I heard it happen as I was washing my hands in the bathroom: first there was a loud clang (tank falling over), then there was a loud whoosh (ignition), then there were about four or [...]

Found a way to post the blogroll on the main page instead of a backwater. This will make them easier for both humans and search engines to peruse. Widget is OPML Browser, running off a local copy of the OPML file because my hosting provider doesn’t have allow_url_fopen enabled. (Cron and wget are our friends [...]

showing off the hottie designer in his underwear. I got home from class tonight, looked over, and WHAM, mostly naked man on-screen. (not that i’m complaining.) Also: Christian — the youngest designer with the meticulously swoopy hair — is already getting on my nerves. He epitomizes “angertwink“, and his egomania is already old.