Monday Update
Nov. 1st, 2010 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightcastleNovember begins, which it means it is time to start worrying about the $WINTERHOLIDAY
Bureaucracy
I need to get a new Canadian Passport and deal with the IRS. I also need to get a mattress.
Technology
I am hoping to get all the info off my backup external before it grinds to a halt. (It got kicked over and has started making terrible grinding noises.)
Arts
Week two of Hope in Chaos at Mainline. Come on out and see it! After that, no plays lined up, although I want to get back to storytelling and some stand up. I am also hoping to find time to put up actual websites.
From elsewhere, lovely underwater photos.
News
From the New York Times, Europe's Plagues Came From China. The great waves of plague that twice devastated Europe and changed the course of history had their origins in China, a team of medical geneticists reported Sunday, as did a third plague outbreak that struck less harmfully in the 19th century. The three outbreaks are The Plague of Justinian, the Black Death, and the Plague of 1900.
I think I might want to pick up this book, Proofiness, about the dark art of mathematical deception. The book reminds me of this classic about how gender studies are reported.
Sady Doyle on the Hate Snowball on Stephen Fry, with followup, and the simple eloquence of Stephen Fry's Twitter response to this all.
Random
From Information is Beautiful - Every Doctor Who trip through time
Bureaucracy
I need to get a new Canadian Passport and deal with the IRS. I also need to get a mattress.
Technology
I am hoping to get all the info off my backup external before it grinds to a halt. (It got kicked over and has started making terrible grinding noises.)
Arts
Week two of Hope in Chaos at Mainline. Come on out and see it! After that, no plays lined up, although I want to get back to storytelling and some stand up. I am also hoping to find time to put up actual websites.
From elsewhere, lovely underwater photos.
News
From the New York Times, Europe's Plagues Came From China. The great waves of plague that twice devastated Europe and changed the course of history had their origins in China, a team of medical geneticists reported Sunday, as did a third plague outbreak that struck less harmfully in the 19th century. The three outbreaks are The Plague of Justinian, the Black Death, and the Plague of 1900.
I think I might want to pick up this book, Proofiness, about the dark art of mathematical deception. The book reminds me of this classic about how gender studies are reported.
Sady Doyle on the Hate Snowball on Stephen Fry, with followup, and the simple eloquence of Stephen Fry's Twitter response to this all.
Random
From Information is Beautiful - Every Doctor Who trip through time
