Jen’s Corner

The Grand Master (both of them!) at his best. Spider Robinson did a fantastic job fleshing out RAH's outline - Variable Star has the spirit and flavor of the best of Heinlein's work.
I was a little worried at the first couple of chapters; they were good sci-fi, but the contemporary references were a bit [...]

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In a little over four months, I'm going to be 40. The big Four-Oh. Age is just a number, but I've been noticing… changes that I'm not too thrilled with. One, of course, is the grey hair. Hoo boy I've got more grey than I need. Granted, it did start [...]

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I’ve ordered stuff from play-asia (imported!) with no problem. Hell, I’ve had no problem buying stuff on ebay. But these guys?? Forget it.
Timeline:
June 30: Pre-ordered Talking Sumomo figure from Toys N’ Joys. It was supposed to be available August 30th.
July 21: Charge for Toys N’ Joys showed up on [...]

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Nothing to see here, really. Nothing interesting anyway. Well, it’s interesting to me of course. Sorta.
Look! A kitten!

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Just seeing if this will post to LiveJournal.  I'm not sure it'll post to WordPress, so chances are I won't use it.  But, as Gir always says… “What's that do?!?  What's that do?!?”

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I'm trying a new crockpot recipe today - Chicken Chow Mein. It's out of one of our newer crockpot cook books; last week I tried the beef stroganoff recipe and it was loads better than the recipe I used to use. So, I figured it'd be worth it to try different recipes, especially [...]

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Using Blazer on the T|X to make an LJ post.
Writing in Graffiti, wheee!

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Things are always more complicated than they should be.

Shiny has been acquired. I went with the Palm TX, because I really couldn't justify the need for the LifeDrive. Really, this TX is fabulous, and all I really need or want.

It is now also syncing w/ iCal, AddressBook, and SOHO Notes. Due [...]

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Thanks to 's reader we know that Firefox extension AdBlock is causing the Firefox kablooie livejournal pages.
The CSS LJ serves up for ALL users is getting caught by adblock. Most likely because of “ad_base.css” in the code.
Anyhoo, if you're using adblock (and WHY aren't you?!?) just whitelist this:
http://stat.livejournal.com/??lj_base.css,xc/basic.css,xc/menu-normal.css,xc/normal-fonts.css,ad_base.css,xc/extended.css?v=1154390211
Problem solved… until they jack w/ [...]

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Read this link. It's all I would want to say about 9/11 if, you know, I wrote good and all.

I'll be skipping the movies and as much of the hype as possible.

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Our PS2 broked.

This is a Bad Thing™, so I guess we'll be heading out to get a new one soon. Bother.

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Error running style: Died in S2::run_code running EntryPage::print(): Database handle unavailable at /home/lj/cgi-bin/LJ/User.pm line 296.

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I'm seriously thinking of letting my paid account lapse. If I'm using WordPress, with the fake crossposter, why not? And if they can't keep CSS working properly, why am I paying for this??
Yes, my style/user info page (and even http://www.livejournal.com) is screwed up again in Firefox. It's fine in Safari.
Hmm. About [...]

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Nothing more really needs to be said. :-/

xkcd

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After three years of planning, the Microsoft Corp.-designed “School of the Future” opened its doors Thursday, a gleaming white modern facility looking out of place amid rows of ramshackle homes in a working-class West Philadelphia neighborhood.
Hm. Think I need to read Jennifer Government again.

When I was in grade school, I went to [...]

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