some wordplay with your gunplay
Campers may now pack heat along with their sleeping bags when they travel to national parks. The Bush administration on Friday struck down federal regulations banning loaded guns in most national forests, a move that was widely seen as a parting shot on behalf of the National Rifle Association. The ruling overturned a 25-year-old federal regulation severely restricting concealed firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. The new rule, which would take effect in January, would apparently allow anyone who already has a concealed weapons permit in his or her state to also tote a gun in federal parks within state boundaries. Guns will be allowed in national parks: Thanks, SFGate, for “pack heat along with their sleeping bags” and “parting...
Read Moremeta is not the thing
This may have to count as my Holidailies post today, despite it being entirely meta. Whatever I write comes out as a rant about how frustrated I am to spend yet another Saturday at home and awfully sick. So we’ll skip that part. Inspired by Courtney, I now have a lifestream! The sidebar had become too cluttered, so I moved all of the blow-by-blow online notices to their own page, where you may ignore them en masse. This site now supports both OpenID and coComment Disqus. The new theme is subject to change. That is all for now. [ETA: My FeedBurner feed will cease to work in 30 days. Please point your RSS readers at http://cygnoir.net/feed instead. LiveJournal syndication has already been...
Read Moreto bed and to rise
Every night, Torgi the cat puts me to bed by chirping and nudging me until I stop doing whatever I am doing. Every morning, he head-butts me into consciousness because it is time for his breakfast. Zen, in contrast, cannot be bothered. Her whims are her own, not to be shared with silly humans. Right now Torgi is purring loudly while attempting to wedge himself in between me and my iPhone. He is winning.
Read Morethe linguistics of texting
From ‘Gr8 Db8′ Defends The Linguistics Of Texting on NPR’s All Things Considered: All the popular beliefs about texting are wrong, or at least debatable. Its graphic distinctiveness is not a totally new phenomenon. Nor is its use restricted to the young generation. There is increasing evidence that it helps rather than hinders literacy. And only a very tiny part of the language uses its distinctive orthography. A trillion text messages may seem a lot, but when we set these alongside the multi-trillion instances of standard orthography in everyday life, they appear as no more than a few ripples on the surface of the sea of language. Texting has added a new dimension to language use, indeed, but its long-term impact on the already existing...
Read MoreOMGWTFGTD
Sadly, I can relate to about half of Zen Habit’s “10 Signs You’re a Productivity Junkie”, especially #5: Conversations with friends are broken up by you jotting notes to yourself. People ask you if you’re writing a book and you reply “I just don’t want to forget any of this.”
Read Moreholiday headgear edition
Are you a Flickr fan in the Bay Area? Don’t miss the December gathering of the San Francisco Flickr Users, SFlickr. It’s a very special Holiday Headgear Edition, so bring your Santa hat!
Read Moregettin crap done
This speaks to me, as someone who has spent waaaaaaay too much time researching GTD systems.
Read Morethis is really
After a long day at the library, I walked to Hayes Valley and met with a new friend to discuss his poetry project. He dropped me off at home, where my fiancé was waiting with hugs, kisses, and a mug of freshly-brewed tea. I had Chinese takeout leftovers for dinner while watching an episode of “Fringe”. Now the cats are hanging out with me and I am fiddling with my website. I am having a serious moment of hell yes, this is really my life.
Read Moreguesswork
Holidailies is a community writing project which begins this Friday. As a participant, I will be attempting to update my website each day from 5 December 2008 to 6 January 2009. Though I failed spectacularly at NaNoWriMo this year, I expect to be able to come up with at least 50 words or a photograph each day. Instead of going to bed on time — which, regardless of my late shift, I should be doing — I am starting now with a tidbit of introspection. Quite a few topics have been rattling the old brain-pan lately, and the one at the top happens to be that of guesswork in friendships. I will elaborate: while at a dinner party last Saturday, I attempted to recall the name of an object. I speculated on the name, and asked other people if they knew the name;...
Read Morefree ride
On the train home, the coffee got a free ride. Sure, it was tipped over and spilled out, a meager half-napkin underneath it on the orange plastic seat, but it didn’t have to show its transfer to the fare cops. Only one brave person sat next to it. He was tall and had a leather jacket, so it was to be expected, that level of bravery, of sacrifice. He gestured grandly when people moved to sit down on the coffee: NO, his hands outstretched said, and he furrowed his brow. Protecting the people from stains is a difficult job. I wondered if the coffee was headed all the way to the beach, or just down to the Scientology office. To the pet store? To the dry cleaners? There were so many possibilities for the nearly-bereft container. But I was shy, and...
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