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Moving

There used to be a white house on Olive not far west of I-270. It's not there anymore. Now it's in Kirkwood, several miles south and west of where it was built. The entire house was picked up off the foundations and put on wheeled supports

MP3.com

I've been plundering MP3.com again for coding music. If you like electronica or trance, these are the best I've found: * The Cynic Project * Bassic * Kryptonic * 7.1 * Kooz * Digital Cardboard * Skuz Plunder, plunder... That's a good word, plunder.

Umm...

Some weeks it just gets really busy. I'm not dead yet.

Wallpaper

Much happiness. Hubby gave me one of the top ten best birthday presents ever today: a year's subscription to Digital Blasphemy. If you're going to be staring at a computer for most of the day, put something there you actually want to look at. Run, do

Knock and Die

Timothy gave me a door handle hanging thing that says this: I need total peace and quiet. I'm in touch with a creative love vibe from the center of the earth, tapped into my own special personal meditative wavelength, tuned in to all the earth's positive

Sorry, but the Emperor is naked

Some troll posted the URL of my Linux usability rant on comp.os.linux.advocacy. I took that file down last night because I was appalled, but not surprised, at the vehemence of the personal attacks from that group. Rather than believe that anyone could be less than expert with

New tea in town

Starbucks has been supplanted by St Louis Bubble Tea, on the Loop in University City. It looks odd to have a cup of milky sweet tea with several layers of black balls at the bottom (called boba) and a 12mm diameter straw to accommodate them, but once you get over

Barbarian Northlands

Just to be perfectly clear for the Canadians and Americans, the definition of the North of Britain I grew up with was this: You draw a line going from the Wash (at the top of East Anglia, on the Norfolk Coast) to the tip of the Bristol Channel (just below

Vet

We're taking our kitten Tangle to the vet. He's bleeding, I'm worried. Update: We have stuff to squirt down his neck until he's better. Vet says he'll be OK, but needs to go on adult cat food. Much relief.

Leftishness

Two problems with being a former left hander are ironing clothes, and sawing wood. I used to be ambidextrous (which comes from the Latin for "right handed with both hands," dexter meaning right, sinister meaning left) until my teacher stepped in. She told us "your right hand

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