(thanks, crasch !)

via crasch comes an article on how to read a lot of books quickly . The model of a book queue has failed for me. Books pile up for all sorts of reasons - generally that I want to have read them but not to read them. I get stuck, get bored, whatever. Plus, I don't have a lot of non-fiction reading time (unlike blogs, which can be read at red lights, I need solid blocks of time for non-fiction...

Hanging out, cuddling, and listening to people play folk music in an apt (where I saw euneeblic , traumentwerfer , laughingstone , seanlynch , integreillumine , crasch , and others whose LJs I don't know) was just my speed tonight. And when they ran out of songs, someone told my second favorite priest/rabbi joke, so I told my favorite one (there are...

faire was great yesterday. came in to see a whole booth w/ kiddie pool and build your own seastead kit that Liz made happen w/ no help from me - yay! Brochures were very popular, we went through all 200 before the end of the day, plus got 40 mailing list signups. At the booth I talked to Danny O Brien from EFF, Seth Roberts (of the Shangri-La Diet), crasch , Declan McCullagh, and numerous other...

via crasch , this is the best parkour video I've seen. It makes my knees hurt, but the rest of me gets pretty excited. I have no desire to learn the big trampoline moves, but he has a ton of cute little spins and flips that look hella fun. Plus he's obviously very creative - reminds me of Jackie Chan.

By way of crasch . Obama may be the most cynical President ever.

via crasch Historic times indeed for our nation.

At the social last night, we ended up sitting around some tables so we had one huge check. After collecting, we were $40 short. I figured I would just cover it, so I took the cash and paid w/ my card (for the $4 kickback!). (I didn't mention this to anyone at the time.) Then crasch , who had been on the phone, came over and gave me $8, and jhogan , who hadn't noticed the collection...

09:41 WaPo Express: 6-year-old kid borrows family sedan to get to school after missing bus, says learned to drive from *GTA*. Me: Which is worse? # 13:39 Whoa. The "Read it Later" Firefox add-on puts markers in Google Reader to do it! # 14:56 Wow, the "Note in Reader" bookmarklet that Google provides is really nice. I should have started using this thing before! # 15:08 My LiveJournal...

First, I'm not running around in a panic that LJ is about to have the plug pulled, and I found it amusing that when LJ had database problems this evening the status page update read: "LiveJournal.com is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance. Don't worry, this has nothing to do with our recent company layoffs! It's a technical problem, not a lack-of-personnel problem." Good forethought...