I recently realized that I am paying more for phone service in Ottawa
than I was in Montreal, despite making hardly any long-distance calls
here at all. A close inspection of my phone bill reminded me that I
signed up for a voicemail/caller-id/dozen-other-services bundle that
I thought would be Real Handy, but that I never use.
Since I tend to [...]
Tragic news, comic footnote:
It seems the Duke University Medical Center has inadvertently (!)
performed a transplant which gave the recipient a heart and lung
which don’t match her blood type. This is, of course, a Bad
Thing, but plenty of people report bad. I report surreal!
This
article in the Raleigh News and Observer covers the story,
but ends:
Mahoney said he [...]
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I meant to mention in my previous post:
Thanks, all, for your comments in my post about
crime
writing. My to-read shelf is filling up fast!
I found a neat local bookstore,
Prime
Crime, which happened to be a whole block away from the Bridgehead I
tend to show up in after work to read for a bit. They carry nothing but
mystery [...]
Now reading: Tourist Season, Carl Hiassen
I promise this will be my last post about notebooks.
So I bought a Moleskine address book, because I wanted to have an
address book that will last me decades, and because I wanted to compare
the Moleskine construction to the Cavallini that I recommended earlier.
There’s definitely a difference — the Moleskine is [...]
If my friends jumped off a bridge, I’d be flying through midair by now.
http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=mendia
Discussing The Grifters on #perl:
<mendel> What other authors would one want to check out if one were
becoming a fan of, say, Jim Thompson and Raymond Chandler?
<Fletch> go to amazon and see what they reccomend.
Why ask people about books when you can ask a machine? Argh.
So, anyhow, [...]
Metafilter catalogs the current state of online
radio, with a handy list of the stations that have survived the
CARP ruling.
If you’re like me, you stopped listening to a lot of your favorite
net radio stations when they all disappeared a few months ago. A
lot of mine have come back, and I’m slowly rediscovering them.
This article’s a great [...]
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