impudent strumpet

Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Books read in December 2014

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New: 1. Crashed by Timothy Hallinan 2. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes 3. Yes Pleas...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Fanfic drought

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Another recent stressor has been that the In Death fansite has stopped posting fanfiction, and another reliable source has not yet materiali...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Contemplating my next computer

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All of my computers have been Dells, always because I got at least five years out of the computer and was extremely happy with their warrant...
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Monday, December 22, 2014

Horoscopes

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From the Toronto Star (can't find an online link, typos are my own): This year your creativity soars. You also seem to develop your in...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

What to do if you're offended at being offered a senior's discount

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DEAR ABBY : I was at the hairdresser yesterday, and when I went to the register to pay, the receptionist asked me if I was over 65 "...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

BIOS sometimes (but not always) doesn't recognize the operating system on my hard drive

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The computer: Dell XPS 15 running Windows 7 In early December, one of the built-in diagnostics found that the hard drive failed a "SM...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Dreams of being stalked

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Lately I've been having dreams of being stalked and harassed to an extent that has never happened in real life. For example: 1. I dr...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Things I Don't Understand: smoothies

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People talk about smoothies like they save time, but they don't!  Preparing fruits etc. to go in a smoothie requires at least as much pr...
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Monday, December 15, 2014

Blogger is imposing captchas on me against my will

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Recently, captchas appeared on my comments pages.  I didn't put them there, my comment settings have Word Verification set to "No...
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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Extended public celebration of Christmas is unkind to children

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My fairy goddaughter, who just turned 3, is getting impatient about waiting for Christmas.  Some days, the fact that Santa isn't coming ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Things They Should Invent: MoralOfTheStory.com

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My fairy goddaughter has an uncommon name.  I decided I'd try to find a book with a protagonist who shares her name and, after much sear...
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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Books read in November 2014

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New: 1. The Long Way Home by Louise Penny 2. Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church by Lauren Drain with Lisa Pulitz...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

The opportunity to be good at something

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I recently realized that, based on the various jobs I've had, the "better" my job is (in the sense of more specialized, social...
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Sunday, November 23, 2014

What if suicide prevention were removed from the mandate of mental health care?

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When Robin Williams committed suicide, many people responded with the "Genie, you're free" scene from Aladdin. This response ...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

The time I accidentally meditated

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I've been carrying around a lot of stress and worry and general disproportionate bad feelings about the latest round of condo drama for ...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Improper use of photoshop

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In the past year, there have been a lot of fit and flare dresses in stores that have one thing on common: when I put them on, it looks like ...

57 channels and nothing on

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This whole blog post is obsolete, in that it applies to the world before streaming and on-demand.  However, it just occurred to me now, so I...

My latest Twitter win

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@impstrump It was, initially, but I ended up writing the article in a direction that made the poll irrelevant. — Wil Wheaton (@wilw) Nove...

The negatives of having a system

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As I've blogged about before , I have a system and I find it beneficial.  But there are two consequences of this that sometimes seem a b...
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I collect languages, give away free ideas, and construct precision analogies.
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