Archive: 2011

18 entries. 3,176 words.

January, 2011

• George Allen Running For 2012 Senate. 2011-01-31 11:20 PM.
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  So I saw that George Allen is running for Jim Webb’s Senate seat in 2012, which I suppose means we can look forward to another Virginia election cycle full of Democratic bloggers and consultants pushing “macaca” as their go-to strategy. Everything old is new again, or something. 179 words.

May, 2011

• Vocabulary Lesson from A Game of Thrones. 2011-05-20 10:59 PM.
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  When I’m reading books on my Kindle, I’ve taken to highlighting words that I don’t know at all or don’t know well enough to come up with an exact definition from memory, with the hope that I will review them later and perhaps find a way to insert them into my own writing. 601 words.

July, 2011

• Too Many Social Media Sites. 2011-07-13 12:40 AM.
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  I’ve reached a social media crisis point. With the release (sort of) of Google+ it’s now clear that there are simply too many social media sites to keep up with. 649 words.

August, 2011

• John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. 2011-08-11 11:06 AM.
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  What is the backstory of John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt? Why is his name the same as my name? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Jingleheimer_Schmidt 19 words.
• Natural Disaster Week. 2011-08-26 9:16 PM.
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  It’s been a big week for natural disasters here in Virginia. First a 5.8 magnitude earthquake, complete with aftershocks (which caused a lot of excitement but we didn’t suffer any discernable damage), now we’ve got Hurricane Irene bearing down on us. 123 words.
• Irene: Saturday Morning. 2011-08-27 12:27 PM.
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  Hurricane Report From Richmond: It is raining. I would describe it as a completely ordinary rain, not particularly heavy, but steady. A little while ago, I heard a mild gust of wind outside. 38 words.
• Irene: Saturday Noon. 2011-08-27 4:23 PM.
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  Steady rain continues, with occasional bursts of heavy downpours. 37 words.
• Irene: Saturday Afternoon. 2011-08-27 8:46 PM.
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  Power out now, probably for good and all. Strong gusts have knocked a tree onto our shed… the only damage in the neighborhood I can see, naturally. Dogs are busy with bones. 32 words.
• Irene: Sunday Morning. 2011-08-28 11:07 AM.
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  Storm is gone. 30 words.
• Irene: Sunday Noon. 2011-08-28 4:28 PM.
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  It’s bright and sunny outside, and the ground is quickly drying. The power was miraculously restored here at about 11 AM, far exceeding my expectations. Other than the maple tree sitting on our shed, there is little to indicate that a hurricane passed by yesterday. 57 words.

September, 2011

• Irene: Redux. 2011-09-02 12:52 AM.
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  So we thought everything was great when we got power back on Sunday. Then, the power went out again at noon on Tuesday. It’s Thursday night now, and we are not “scheduled” to have power restored until tomorrow night. 113 words.
• A Rainy Day. 2011-09-24 1:39 PM.
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  So I’ve been putting off writing this post for a while, mainly because as soon as I post it a bunch of people will probably start asking me about it, but there isn’t really much to say about it, even if I wanted to have a conversation about it, because it’s kind of private, ya know? But today being a rainy and dreary day seems like an appropriate time to mention it. Cynthia and I are separating. 94 words.

October, 2011

• Code Update!. 2011-10-17 11:54 PM.
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  At long last, I fixed a little problem where people could view private posts if they happened to know the URL. 34 words.
• Perdido Street Station. 2011-10-20 11:53 PM.
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  I just finished Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, which I read because it was supposed to be an example of the “fantasy steampunk” genre, although it turned out to be more in the “Lovecraftian horror” genre. Mieville’s writing is incredibly detailed and imaginative, and he’s pretty creative with his vocabulary, too. In other words, I was using the Kindle’s dictionary feature quite a lot. It wasn’t quite pretentious, but it seemed a tad unnecessary at times. 195 words.

November, 2011

• Happy Belated Thanksgiving!. 2011-11-26 2:23 PM.
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  I was reminded that I haven’t posted anything on my blog for a while, so I thought I would do that. 687 words.

December, 2011

• Post-NaNoWriMo Depression. 2011-12-05 10:41 PM.
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  I’m suffering from a major case of post-nanowrimo depression right now, which I would assume is pretty similar to post-partum depression. Or drug withdrawals. It’s pretty simple really. The act of creation is so thrilling and stimulating and awesome that when it’s over, there’s nothing left inside but a black empty void of nothingness. For me, it generally manifests as a fervent desire to stare at the walls and feel useless all day. It’s really bad after nanowrimo because a lot of concentrated creative energy is released in a short time, which makes the corresponding crash even worse. 196 words.
• Bye bye uvteksoftware.com. 2011-12-05 10:44 PM.
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  I let uvteksoftware.com lapse for a month, then I had a change of heart and tried to re-register it, and some place called GO MONTENEGRO DOMAINS had already bought it up. Damn cyber squatters! Now they’ve got uvtek.com AND uvteksoftware.com. 56 words.
• NTSB Doesn’t Go Far Enough. 2011-12-17 2:41 PM.
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  The NTSB wants to ban cell phones and texting while driving. If they really want to save lives, they need to ban driving. Seriously, have you guys seen how many people are killed driving every year? 36 words.