Of teeth and tax refunds

Last night was the next chapter of the Tale of Tooth Twelve: Post and Filling. After the excavation, the dentist left a temporary filling over the gaping hole. I managed to crack this temp filling on Tuesday night while eating a granola bar (damned delicious almonds), revealing the rubbery plug providing support underneath the filling. [...]

Update on the server revamping, et al.

Well, between the dental drama, a few other money-type commitments, and the sometimes-iffy availability of the hardware itself, I think I’ll wait on the Kurobox. Still looking for something smaller/quieter/more energy efficient, though. Today, while digging through shelves at the office I stumbled across an unused “bronze keyboard” Powerbook that appears to be in good [...]

Watching The Defectives

Joe. My. God. posts on how Pride doesn’t need to be “reformed”, on why drag queens and leather dykes invariably wind up in news reports on Pride festivities, and on how the political aspects are nowhere near as important as some people think they are. Probably the most insightful piece I’ve yet read on the [...]

All of Ludwig Van’s symphonies in MP3 – free

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 [...]

Random ramblings.

I just need to get these things off my chest. My new candy obsession: Liquorice Altoids. They are not for the faint of heart, and especially not for you poor misguided souls who think that Twizzlers are “licorice”. (um, NO. they are most certainly NOT.) I’ve become fascinated lately with two blogs, The Rude Pundit [...]