More pictures that slipped through, these from the Amanda Palmer concert on 12 September 2012 at the Black Cat in DC. Due to a sinus infection I stayed for only a small part of the concert and wound up going home early because I felt so lousy so there are only photographs of the opening act.
Anyway, here they are.
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Somehow, this directory of pictures slipped through. I took a few pictures at the Dead Can Dance concert in Maryland back in the summer of 2012. Here they are.
(TODO: Yes, I know the link to the gallery is broken; I need to reinstall the gallery HTML in that directory.)
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This is one of our more tame <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/105134/risk-legacy">Risk Legacy</a> games. It only took nine hours to finish.
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One is an entire meal in itself. Hard-boiled egg, wrapped in sausage, deep-fried, and served with spicy mustard and <a href="http://www.bringoutthebranston.co.uk/">Branston pickle</a>.
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To everyone waiting on e-mail replies from me, please be patient. I'm catching up at work and trying to allocate my spoons appropriately. I'll get back to you, promise.
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This is a follow-up to the tale of woe that is my last trip to the dentist after a diagnosis of an abscessed molar on the bottom left. I kept the following bits under wraps mostly for the past week or so, save to a small number of people, and then I'll wrap things up with the events of today. To save your stomachs and appetites, the rest of the this post is under the cut. If you read the known side effects of the antibiotic clindamycin carefully you will note the following: Chills, confusion, diarrhea with blood in it …
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If there is a chance - any chance - that you have a random web application that you might hit more often than ten times an hour, do yourself a favor and stick it behind a caching proxy of some kind, like Nginx.
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A meme that some of my transhumanist and technoprogressive colleagues have been bandying around for the past half year or so is that of a universal basic income, or at least a negative income tax. The scenario goes something like this:
Greater automation in the workplace due to the ever-greater proliferation of computers and deployment of sophisticated software means that companies have to hire and pay fewer people to do work for them. Sources of gainful employment are not assured these days (even for, say, certified Oracle admins being out of work for four or five years at a time …
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