I’ve had as my co-workers call it a “staycation” where I take time off but stay in town. Hanne and I do everything we can to NOT travel between Thanksgiving and New Year’s and I think we managed it this year. But I did have time-off that I needed to burn up this year or lose, and I took another day or two extra to round out the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
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Narrative of a little trouble I just had with Windows 7’s clinginess with certain files and file types.
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I thought I should deliver thoughts on installing Windows 7 Enterprise on my older Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop.
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Just a short pointer to a discussion of trans politics with respect to some feminist scholars who in my mind aren’t doing a lot of good for our trans siblings.
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I wanted to note here a couple of things about my own relationship to writing about race-oriented power disparities as well as share a portion of a comment I made in a locked LiveJournal community about race and racism.
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This is sort of inspired by REAL LIFE WORK EXPERIENCE just this morning as well as a MetaFilter post about a balloon bass (though the post seems to emphasize the Cajón-like box more).
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I wanted to point you to a very profitable discussion going on on Metafilter right now.
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I bought Borderlands on Wednesday after much soul-searching (I didn’t finish Fallout 3, which is in a similar market segment, probably because it was too creepy). Fallout 3 is Role Playing Game that is also a First Person Shooter. In contrast, Borderlands is a First Person Shooter that is also a Role Playing Game.
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This is a post composed of old news and links that are new to me, but from earlier in 2009. I encountered it today by way of a train crash type of Metafilter post about the new iPhone app from Pepsi that helps you “score” with women.
But the discussion that’s completely tangential in that thread about genius, creativity and getting started is one that I thought might help some folks close to me, and folks not so close.
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