Well, there’s a bit of work happening, but after yesterday, I’ve decided I’m not going to treat this like a work-week. It’s not a Great Week To Be Single as Lileks suggests, but it’s not a horrible week, either.
Yesterday’s a day I’m glad is done, though. I muddled through some of the things I’d planned to do, then lunched in Dinkytown, chatting with a few of the bored shopkeepers, and headed home to relax. Not to be. I’m not going into details, but I spent the twelve hours between returning from lunch and finally going to bed trying to relax, punctuated by episodes that tensed me right up again. Nobody who reads this was involved in the tension, so don’t worry that it was you. Advice from the Reverend Jim seems useful about now.
- Is it too late to learn the art of the party before Friday? I suspect so. Guess I’ll find a way to muddle through. [press-patch]
- Davezilla has his snowfall edition of Things that sound dirty, but aren’t. I wish we’d get some snow around here. [davezilla]
- I don’t think I ever linked to it, but Alek’s Christmas Lights Webcam is NOT real. There really wasn’t a webcam and lights that you could control over the web, just a bunch of pictures that were cunningly put together on-demand. [fark!]
- Here’s a site describing How Communities are Re-Using the Big Box when a superstore moves away. It’s good to see the variety of uses these basically ugly buildings get put to. [kottke]
- Hugh, of gapingvoid, is putting together a book on how to be creative. Sounds like a fun read. [boing boing]
- A Proposal to adopt Software Patents in the EU was derailed by Wlodzimierz Marcinski, Poland’s Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Science and Information Technology. There’s a move to send him a ton of thank-yous. [boing boing]
- I’ve updated my Magical Macintosh Key Sequences page again. No major changes, just small notes that readers have sent in.