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Considering how much I fly, this is both interesting and scary. Does anyone know anything about these programs? Legit? Can anything designed to ease your conscience possibly be this easy? Does it matter? Should I pay the $100 US or so that they estimate carbon offsets for my trips this year will cost? Is this [...]

Today in my email: * a forward of a really old chain email (from an otherwise sensible relative!) * spam about “coke vs pepsi — vote today” * a note from the Human Rights Campaign about an older man who was beaten to death in Detroit, apparently for being gay. For better or worse (mostly [...]

– the ever-awesome xkcd translates George Washington’s Farewell Address into the vernacular. I have to confess I’d never read the original; the modernized version is wonderful. I am absolutely in favor of this kind of modernization: for one thing, the content is informational (not primarily poetic), and modern language is a far better way of [...]

Home safe from Boston — or more properly, Cambridge — which was all covered over with snow and ice. It was perhaps forty degrees colder on average than here; which was a little shocking at first but also fun to have a bit of ‘real’ winter. Some nice things that happened: * I met the [...]

I am only awake 17 to 18 hours a day, usually. This gives a limited amount of time to think about things. Since I more or less earn my living by thinking about things, how I spend my brainpower (which is not so very great to begin with) is important. You would think that my [...]

That goes for all ya’ll. —- I have been tired and migrane headachey (gah) for days; thus not posting much. Tonight I am doing laundry, baking cookies, and otherwise preparing to go to Boston tomorrow night. I have to find all my warm clothes; hopefully I won’t freeze to death. Tonight I watched The History [...]

The Grammys are bizarre. Al Gore and Queen Latifah? That is all.