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I’ve now spent almost a month working on my maths with Aleks.  We’ve gotten along famously, and I’ve gotten a handle on most of the things one might need in order to slide into harder math with relative ease.  Congratulations, me.  I’ve graduated! I have a few branches I can choose from in order to…

Ah, election season. The honeycrisps are back in the produce section, the air has an unfriendly chill, and our level of discourse has degenerated to the level of grade-school boys.  Why is it that people who are so brilliant in every other area of their lives have to stoop to ad hominem attacks and meaningless…

Finally, I’m feeling human.  Between slamming my endocrine system into some kind of bizarre state and weaning off of Wellbutrin, I spent the last two weeks essentially in a supreme fog.  I think I’m emerging from it now, but boy do I ever dislike having such a huge lack of energy. Bleh. n nn n…

Last week after returning from burning man, I rejoined the work world from my standard perch in my woven rope hammock chair on the porch. The weather was perfect, warm and breezy, and so I was loathe to pay any attention when a hole appeared in the hammock. I tied it off without much thought,…

For all of you who have been beamed over to here from the PerlGoddess website, a little explanation is probably in order. Before I started working at my current company, building applications involving graph databases and freebase, I used to do all of my coding in Perl. Alas, this is no longer the case. In…

I swear I meant to write this post a month ago, and in a horrible burst of irony never managed to find the time to do so, but here it is anyhow. I think I should warn everyone that my only degree is in Philosophy, and I’ve managed to shove that part of me down…

I haven’t knitted in forever. Life just keeps getting in my way. But then a fickle friend pulled me back into the knitting world, and I figured it was ok as long as I limited myself to only one kind of knitting, so I picked socks. And, since I’ve done a whole one pair of…

I’m sure I’m not the only one who gets periodically overwhelmed by the number of things I’m not doing right. I still shampoo my hair, my kids watch TV and play video games and despite my best efforts we still seem to end up with transfats and other evil plastic foods in my house. Every…

At Pantheacon last week I attended a talk by a Tarot guy. It was really interesting, and I learned a great deal (and reminded myself that I want to learn more). One of the concepts he brought up was “reversed” cards – when the card is laid out upside down. Various people have all sorts…

Don’t get me wrong. I do like django. I’ve been working back and forth in Pylons and Django, trying to learn each of them well enough so that I can figure out which one will give the right answer when I know better what the powers that be want. So, if you, like me, have…