Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to a set of birthday triplets: gridlore, it_aint_easy, and figmo!!!! Have a great one!!!

Hey, George!

In the interest of not feeding my depression, I don't think I'll make any political posts today other than pointing at ravan's annotated copy of the Declaration of Independence.

I find the name of our country's current president theocratic dictator ironic in the extreme.

added: Also go watch/listen to this opinion piece by Keith Olbermann, or read the text which has the last paragraph that was cut off in the video.

Total preorders for Westercon 2007

Total for the con: 5 new pre-orders and 11 bonus disks delivered. You can still pre-order Coffee, Computers, and Song! -- I expect that it will finally go to the duplicators sometime this month. Hopefully in the next two weeks, which would let me throw a release party at ConChord.

Life, the universe, and lemmings

Seen many places on my flist, here's a link to my 42^nd LJ post. My life in a nutshell, I guess. Can't speak for the universe.

tracks: drive a stake through it

Finally got back to working on Vampire Megabyte. Stick a fork in Drive a stake through it -- it's done. Added a 2600Hz tone in front of the DTMF tones, and a 2100Hz tone after them. Could, theoretically, go back and fix the modem tones now that I know what they're supposed to be, but I prefer the musicality of what I came up with. Follow the title link to the audio -- I just uploaded the current version.

Library Thing

From meglimir comes the latest potential time sink: LibraryThing.com. I'm going to wait before attempting to enter my library; I've done most of my Cordwainer Smith from memory. Same username as here, of course.

Should have the Wolfling take me a userpic in front of some bookshelves. It's not as if we don't have any...

Walking

[x-posted to healthy_fen]

Took a five-mile walk this morning, which kind of makes up for the negligible amount I did over the weekend (though I did do a lot of stair climbing, and don't seem to have gained much, if any, weight).

From meglimir, a pointer to this article on walking. Not sure I believe walking barefoot is as magical as all that, but I certainly prefer shoes with a wide space for the toes, and go barefoot around the house.

Fireworks

Just spent a pleasant half-hour or so watching the few fireworks we can see from our front porch. The neighborhood is mostly one-story houses with a few tall trees, but the left side of the porch and the driveway get a pretty good view of the top half of San Jose's show.

I've always loved fireworks, though it's been several years since we went out of our way to watch them.