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Via BoingBoing, here’s how I plan to encourage any children in my life to keep their rooms clean. Ska. Next up: find a way to encode other parental phrases like “wash behind your ears” in ska. (Current frontrunner for that particular phrase is the opening few bars of the Skatalites’ “Man in the Street”.)

As it turns out, the tooth in question (upper left first bicuspid, if you must know) got that way because of pressure from a wisdom tooth. Wisdom tooth pressure was squishing the whole upper left side, but the broken one had a small weak spot that eventually just caved, and now it’s infected. Yow. Have [...]

I just can’t focus on a damned thing, thanks to all manner of random activity in my brain today. Hopefully I can alleviate this by dumping core here. I am semi-secretly stoked that geekslut has returned to blogging. Wikipedia’s completed its upgrade to v1.5, thank God. Now I can breathe easily and go back to [...]

If you hop to it, you can get free MP3 files of Beethoven’s nine symphonies, as recorded by the BBC Philharmonic. At this writing it’s just numbers 1-5, but in a couple weeks the other four will be available (mark your calendar!). BBC – Radio 3 – Beethoven Experience – downloads Please note that they’ve [...]

Yeah, I know, I suck because I haven’t updated y’all all recently, blah blah blah. I have an excellent excuse named Fred, who has been mentioned here before and who is my boyfriend/partner/sweet babboo. Started singing with the Gateway Men’s Chorus, the local gay men’s, uh, chorus, at the urging of the aforementioned BF/P/SB. I [...]