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A Good Question


From Satan’s Laundromat. Funny how nobody seems to be asking this question anymore.
I’d like to request an MT feature — autosave. This is, like, the tenth time I’ve had a slip of the fingers and accidentially hit the combo for closing Firefox, losing everything I’d written for an entry. This is particularly maddening since I [...]

Vinyl Rocks Again


One of the first things I bought for the new computer was a tape deck. It’s pretty damn cool. But wow–check this out: the world’s first USB turntable. Now that’s old school.
Amazon has it. Kind of tempting…
And hey, remember way back when when I wondered aloud if there was any kind of book trading network [...]

It’s The Little Victories


Our breakthrough last week is bearing (stinky) fruit: Darcy is now a potty champ. Not a single accident yesterday, and now the potty is a friend instead of foe. It has even become her lofty goal to top her sister; Miss D did #2 on the potty without ANY help or suggestion from me whatsoever. [...]

Roastin’


So what I want to know is, does she get to keep the cash? Those $500,000 clams? Since it’s now been revealed that Kaavya lifted from not just two or three books but possibly over half a dozen, does her “book” even deserve to bear her name?
My first reaction to the scandal was that [...]