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radiation poisoning of a former KGB operative, possibly politically motivated? If that’s not a plot right out of a spy novel, I don’t know what is.

Late at night, when I need a sense of the zeitgeist of the world, sometimes I have fun with rdr.to, which is a program like tinyurl — it produces very short redirect urls out of very long ones. It produces URLs in a form as follows:
http://rdr.to/S4
which will coincidentally take you to a report on Wikimania [...]

Randomly, I seem to have been telling everyone this anyway the last couple of days, so I guess I should announce it in journal-land also. Woo! I’ve been putting off telling people until I got the tickets settled, which only happened a couple weeks ago. But! I have news, dudes!
Which concerns my travel plans, [...]

* Gambled
* Stayed out til 1, 3, and 2 in the morning, respectively
* Played a great deal of Katamari Damacy
* Cooked dinner for a dozen people (despite only having six or so)
* and, of course, seen my awesome friends.
and I produced a Thanksgiving menu consisting of:
- 1 turkey, basted with wine, herbs & butter
- [...]

huzzah! I don’t have to catch my plane for another hour. So in honor of Thanksgiving and all its best parts, please vote in the PIE poll. Vote for as many as you please. If you do not like pie at all, first off I am not sure I can be friends with you anymore, [...]

My coworkers, while happy to have the holiday, were all mildly grousing about having to deal with their extended families. I walked around with my hands behind my back looking innocent; I would have whistled except for it being a library and all. “Where are you going for Thanksgiving?” I was asked a few times. [...]

High Culture: Last night I went to see a production of Cymbeline at Ye Olde Universitee. It was alright. I’ve not been to too many plays here, despite feeling like I have some responsibility to support the department, and anyway, cheap entertainment. Cymbeline is a fairly tough play to pull off as it has [...]