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Pancake Day!
I think Shrove Tuesday sounds much more dignified, and Mardi Gras is all furrin and such, but my calendar declares it to be so. Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day. No mention at all of drunken partying. I duly mixed up some pancakes and had them for dinner. Perils of being an archaeologist (or at least a scientist)…
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Substandard eyeballs
Hooray, I’m almost human again! My cold has subsided finally. I have also successfully stolen my parents’ software and done my taxes, efiled, and scheduled for Uncle Sam to suck what I owe out of my account (Sigh). Staying at my parents’ has made me realize how my prescription really has risen, the way the…
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Plague vector
I should be careful when I celebrate–I remarked to a friend on Sunday that I thought I’d conquered whatever con crud germs I might have picked up because I’d been sleeping deep for a week, but feeling just as tired. Immune system in action! Not an hour after saying that, my sore throat started. So…
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Fish triangles
Sometimes I fail to understand advertising. Since I was away at con, I didn’t cook this weekend, and I decided I’d just pick up a package of breaded fish for dinners. Now, I am not proud. I do not care if my breaded fish comes in the form of sticks, and dinosaurs would be a…
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Radcon photos
I have arrived back home and survived a somewhat blurry day at the day job! Radcon was lots of fun, and I have assembled a few illustrative photos to demonstrate such.
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FlatPie
Greetings from RadCon! Between my panels this afternoon I’m going to take my camera around to get you guys a few photos. I wish I’d had my camera at the hotel cafe this afternoon, though. I had a sandwich in the green room for lunch, so when I went to be social, I ordered a…
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Ladies unite!
I cannot comprehend T-shirt manufacturers. I’m not talking about shirts you’d walk into a store and buy: those brands seem to have grasped female anatomy. I’m talking about shirts you buy for screen-printing for your choir or team or club, and the organizer offers you a choice of S to XXL. I remember the days…
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Sexah page numbers
I find page numbers to be so under-appreciated. Especially in Microsoft Word. My office actually usually uses WordPerfect, except when a client specifically requests a Word document. I can hear you out there–I scoffed at WordPerfect too when I was hired, but now I’m a believer. I formatted my thesis in Word, even, and I…
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Crtl-f
It’s not Thanksgiving, but this is still a post in which I am thankful. What am I thankful for? Find and replace! Or really, find, since in my revisions I’m not replacing wholesale but tweaking a handful of a term to something else. It makes me imagine what it might be like to be some…
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