Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I had a call tonight. All the person said on the line was, ‘You are nothing’, and then hung up. Odd sort of call for a crank. It came when I was in the middle of cutting more paper for another one of the books I’m making. Each of these […]
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Bookbinding and Disappointment
I had a call tonight. All the person said on the line was, ‘You are nothing’, and then hung up. Odd sort of call for a crank. It came when I was in the middle of cutting more paper for another one of the books I’m making. Each of these books is a gift for […]
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Look, do not touch
Photo credit: Ray Morris, licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. update The bear cub was not killed. They held it for ten days in quarantine, which most likely means the petting zoo bought the bear cub through an exotic animal dealer, and it wasn’t “wild”. Currently the bear cub is being cared for at the St. Louis Zoo, […]
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Can we still be friends
What happens after the Presidential elections in the United States in November has been on my mind a lot lately. The ramifications for my country are significant, and of the seven elections I’ve participated in the past (missing the eighth because I turned 18 two weeks after the election), I don’t remember one having such […]
Julie Lerman is doing a phenomenal job of taking on the discussion about women and technology. She has a web site with references, and also brought this up in a recent article where she was honored as .NET Rock Star (It’s funny, but Julie was also angry when Microsoft came out with .NET. She got over her anger. I turned […]