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Via sanspoof: hundreds of people draw Batgirl.  Maybe the artist types who read my journal want to participate in the mindless nuttery, too.

Via jennyaxe: "[Alito's] motive... remains unclear."

Don't recall where i saw it, but this proposal for a one-party political system in the United States makes so much sense, i predict it will be widely ignored.

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Via sanspoof: hundreds of people draw Batgirl.  Maybe the artist types who read my journal want to participate in the mindless nuttery, too.

Via jennyaxe: "[Alito's] motive... remains unclear."

Don't recall where i saw it, but this proposal for a one-party political system in the United States makes so much sense, i predict it will be widely ignored.

guess who...

... needs a senior UNIX sysadmin.

guess who...

... needs a senior UNIX sysadmin.

i'm not playing civ4

And it's not because i'm afraid to see what happens after Elizabeth planted a stack of 7 Redcoat and at least 13 Cavalry units (i say "at least" because the stack ends in an ellipsis) just outside a city i took from her some turns ago (which, in a strange coincidence, is named "Teoihuacan"; i am playing the Aztecs, so how did she end up founding a city with an Aztec name? way i see it, she was asking me to capture it!); i presume that after she's done with that, she'll probably go on to fully remove the rest of my presence from the continent she inhabits.  I hope i can delay her, sue for peace, and get on with maybe shooting for Alpha Centauri before time ends.

Anyway, the real reason i'm not playing is that i want to get a hold of my free time so i can get back to writing (both e&tg and the proto-novel) and reading (since i came back from Las Vegas and finished Pratchett's Thud! and James Rollins's Sandstorm, i've started reading a few pages of the following books but then stopped: Sideways, The Name of the Rose, A Fire Upon the Deep, A Confederacy of Dunces [reread]).

In other news, Kim and i saw Murderball last night and it was quite good.  Tonight we met vito_excalibur and had dinner with her and palecur and amywithani at the local Colombian joint (they were out of Colombian beer! WTF!).

But no writing tonight.  Now, bed.

i'm not playing civ4

And it's not because i'm afraid to see what happens after Elizabeth planted a stack of 7 Redcoat and at least 13 Cavalry units (i say "at least" because the stack ends in an ellipsis) just outside a city i took from her some turns ago (which, in a strange coincidence, is named "Teoihuacan"; i am playing the Aztecs, so how did she end up founding a city with an Aztec name? way i see it, she was asking me to capture it!); i presume that after she's done with that, she'll probably go on to fully remove the rest of my presence from the continent she inhabits.  I hope i can delay her, sue for peace, and get on with maybe shooting for Alpha Centauri before time ends.

Anyway, the real reason i'm not playing is that i want to get a hold of my free time so i can get back to writing (both e&tg and the proto-novel) and reading (since i came back from Las Vegas and finished Pratchett's Thud! and James Rollins's Sandstorm, i've started reading a few pages of the following books but then stopped: Sideways, The Name of the Rose, A Fire Upon the Deep, A Confederacy of Dunces [reread]).

In other news, Kim and i saw Murderball last night and it was quite good.  Tonight we met vito_excalibur and had dinner with her and palecur and amywithani at the local Colombian joint (they were out of Colombian beer! WTF!).

But no writing tonight.  Now, bed.