The thunderstorm made it up here about 6 hours later than it did my friends. Which is about 6 hours too late. Because around 5 o'clock, some pollen that I am allergic to go into my eye again. Not quite as bad as last friday, cause only one part of my eyeball swoll up this time. I do not look pretty today.

Email is bouncing cause of some DNS error.

I will be in town. No party. You are welcome to stop by though. I just can't deal with organizing.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity.

By September I want to look fantastic for my 20 year reunion on September 5th. I was at 23% BMI on Friday. Before the reunion I will be at 21% or less.

As motivation, I am putting up my signed China Miéville books. If I don't make the goal they will be run through the dishwasher.

From The Unapologetic Mathematician:

George Carlin is dead at 71. Since any appropriate words would be inappropriate here, I’ll just say “good riddance”. I think he would have, too.

I am listening to a polka version of Pink Floyd's Breathe/Time. Kind of intriguing. I might buy the rest of the album...

Current Music: The Polka Floyd Show - Breathe/Time

Guinevere is home. She's not happy. I'm getting the silent treatment.

She's all stitched up though. In another couple of weeks she'll have forgotten all of this.

I noticed Guinevere limping on Wednesday evening. Yesterday not so much but still a bit. So I made an appointment for today. Turns out she got bit (I think maybe a week ago), and has an abscess. They are keeping her overnight and she will undergo surgery tomorrow morning.

She should be fine, but she's about 17 years old.

Really? How can you expect me to take anything you say seriously when your web site is all about astral projection?

Tags: skepticism

Dang the new Firefox is fast. I suspect the Javascript engine has been improved. Also, so much better with the memory.

I just need my Tab Mix Plus extension to be updated...

My hay fever can just fuck right off.

Some people have to watch their cat to make sure it doesn't run outside when the door is opened.

My cat won't go more than 3 feet off the porch. I closed the door cause I wanted her to get some exercise. She's freaking out now, desperate to get inside now that she's spent a whole 30 seconds in the big wide scary world.

I've eaten a lot of broccoli salad this week. Every day. Salmon too. Every damn day.

I'm sure I've posted this before, but I'm a gonna do it again.

"Passive aggressive" does not mean "avoids confrontation." Nor does it mean "disagrees with me." Nor does it mean "disagrees with me but doesn't fight about it." Nor does it mean "disagreeing in a way to avoid being the bad guy."

It does avoid confrontation, but it's a very particular kind of avoidance. Passive aggressive is when a person disagrees but says they agree, and then actively but secretly tries to undermine the purported agreement.

For instance, your girlfriend wants to go to Maui on vacation, but you want to go to Miami. Leaving a long-winded letter to her saying you don't want to go, or posting to LiveJournal that you don't want to go, and then avoiding the girlfriend for a month so she can't disagree, that's not passive aggressive. It's passive. It's non-confrontational. But not passive aggressive. Telling her you'll go to Maui, but then fixing it so you "have to work" or "losing your tickets"... that's passive aggressive.

If the person disagrees with you such that you know they disagree with you, it's probably not passive aggressive.

This is mostly directed at the Stranger writers and SLOG commenters, but I see it on my friends list on occasion too.

Baby, if you were in my game I'd give you an eighteen Charisma!

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao




Pretty solid writing, but I'm only 100 pages in to it so far. But it's chock full of geek references. In a passage about Oscar Wao's mother's adolescence:

But before Beli could bring her colossal cleavage to bear — her very own wavemotion gun — Wei, blushing deeply, ran over and buttoned her up.

FYI I will not be in Seattle tonight. I will be arriving tomorrow. I have no specific plans for the day. Saturday I will be attending Chief Sealth graduation and plan to go out Saturday night (Noc Noc most likely).