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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

Temporarily offline

I am taking a week away from the internet over Christmas. No blog, no email, no web, no nothing. Talk amongst yourselves until the first week of the new year, I'm going back to the Stone Age till then.

Tired

Courtesy of AOL and someone Hubby used to work with, we saw LOTR "The Two Towers" last night for free. It started at 10pm, we were queuing from 7:30 pm and the hold out line had already filled one and a half rows. Loved what they did

The Poetry of Programming

Read an interview with Richard Gabriel, a Sun engineer, linked from IdeaJoy. ThinkGeek has the perfect t-shirt for this guy: Code Poet. Writing code certainly feels very similar to writing poetry. When I'm writing poetry, it feels like the center of my thinking is in a particular

Things that make you go "Hmm"

I don't know who it was that landed on this site via a Google search for Intellij and chainsaw, but they sound like my kind of person. My blog comes up top on that search.

Where the Brits are

We're not too hard to find. I can vouch for the Britishness of Hubby, Paul B, Jess, and my big sister Fiona. Other Brits on my bloglist are Simon Warren, Gary Turner, Burnt Toast, and Lionel Mandrake. But if you wanted to play Hunt the BritBlog, this is

Weather

STLToday.com says "Cloudy with a bit of snow," weather.telegraph.co.uk says "Heavy snow." The British site puts it better. Every so often when it snows in England, British Rail (or RailTrack, or whatever) claims it's the wrong sort of snow on

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