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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
12:22 am	"Any Macbeth you walk away from with bloody hands is a good Macbeth." Saw "Sleep No More". Was crazy awesome. Also, seriously creepy. The bit where I was alone with the male witch was the most freaked out I've been in a long time. In a good way. Got a joker and some slightly bloody hands out of it. I highly recommend it to all you Boston-area fish; I could easily go back several more times. It fits together really well. Great use of space, atmosphere, music, blurring the boundary between audience and performance. (Went with Sho and Sam, incidentally. Sho had already been and is going again tomorrow.) Had some Tibetan food beforehand at a place near by (in Brookline). Good, though not quite up to the level Sunday's Mu Que Ca. Now, to try to normalize my sleep schedule a bit. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
12:05 am	Tweetery 00:11 Hmm, apparently I think it's OK to teach your kids to believe in Santa for the same reason as God. # 00:15 "Basically, next time you want me to hit you over the head instead of going along with it?" "Yup!" # 01:40 @dvperepelitsa There are better fairy tales. Some versions make pretty good ideals, though. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Monday, December 14th, 2009
11:56 pm	Midnight Cranberry Sauce The cranberry sauce I made for Maya's party came out awesome, and Tegan or someone wanted a recipe, so I'm going to try to recreate it here. It was derived from the internet with some adventure. I think I'll go for a literal rendition. Midnight Cranberry Sauce Ingredients: 1 cup water 1 cup orange juice 20 tablespoons brown sugar (things the Grotto lacks: sane measuring cups) 10 tablespoons normal sugar, plus a bit more 1 12-ounce bag fresh cranberries and most of a 12-ounce bag frozen cranberries 1 small container of fresh blueberries Cinnamon to taste Procedure: Bring liquids to a boil, stirring in and dissolving both sugars. Put in cranberries and try to bring back to a boil. This is a little bizarre because you have so much more cranberry than liquid it's hard to judge boilingishness. Also, you didn't plan ahead enough for the frozen cranberries to be much thawed. Simmer for a while. I was originally going for 10 minutes, but went for a while longer than that, I think. Cranberries should mostly pop with a sound less bold than popcorn. Maya won't be able to hear it. Don't worry if it looks really liquidy; it'll thicken as it cools. When most cranberries are popped, add blueberries and cinnamon and additional sugar to taste. Remove from heat and let cool completely at room temperature. It's rabid midnight, so feel free to fudge the "completely" if you want to go to bed. Put in the fridge and refrigerate until ready to serve. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
12:04 am	Tweetery 11:51 I forgot to mention that both sets of TSA people liked my Assume Nothing shirt over Thanksgiving. *was amused* # 23:33 Woo! Mu Que Ca + Anne + a good movie + cuddles = happy Xavid. # 00:02 Joyous Agnosticalia! # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
12:04 am	Tweetery 10:50 You'd really think Google Calendar would be able to deal better with being kept open so long your auth expires. # 13:24 imago.hitherby.com/?p=142 I've been feeling kind of like Miriam this week. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
12:04 am	Tweetery 12:14 I may have no idea what's going on, but at least I don't get bored. # 21:10 Oh no! Look out! It's a laser gun! *pyew pyew* # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
11:58 pm	By Proxy captainsquiggly's internet is sucking, so she wanted me to post that I said the following to her: "If you saw a bright blue badger walking down the street, you'd just be like 'Oh look, there's a bright blue badger.' " (Comment on this)
12:04 am	Tweetery 12:47 Woo! Voting! # 22:05 Apparently I'm not actually taller than Neil Gaiman, but shorter. *shrug* # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
12:02 am	Tweetery 07:01 A productive hackathon. Dreaming of vhosts afterwards was a bit much, though. # 08:00 I should totally run a high-concept tabletop with spells like "Defy Categorization". # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
12:00 am	Tweetery 19:39 Listening to a properly-ripped version of Marylou sounds weird after listening to the gliched version on @mixapp so much. # 22:24 "The children of Hamlin follow him, save one. Jane watches them leave." imago.hitherby.com/?p=81 # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
12:00 am	Tweetery 15:26 DARPA has this baloon-spotting thing going on tomorrow. Explore social networks, win money? balloon.mit.edu/xavid/ # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 4th, 2009
12:01 am	Tweetery 22:29 The wind today is glorious. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
12:00 am	Tweetery 00:55 ♬ “You wrestle with your angel / 'cause you hate to let it win.” ♬ # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
12:00 am	Tweetery 15:02 Like icons, the punctuation people use for poses online has a strong impact on my mental image of them. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
12:00 am	Tweetery 23:59 Returned my MITSFS books on time with 30 seconds to spare. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Monday, November 30th, 2009
12:00 am	Tweetery 11:55 “I turn into a pine tree every waxing gibbous. It’s… moderately inconvenient.” # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Friday, November 27th, 2009
12:04 am	Tweetery 21:59 “How would you balance rice to get through walls?” —Phia, to a monk of the Balance # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
12:04 am	Tweetery 00:50 #i,i "Nanowrimo: the 10-day" # 01:11 Things that are not the same: packing and catching up on work in the evening, chatting at Diesel until it closes # 10:51 You know, my well-defined tabletopping puzzles seem to always end up resembling text adventure puzzles. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
12:03 am	Tweetery 13:11 I feel like this isn't my first time eating rabbit, but I'm not sure where I'd have eaten it before. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
12:04 am	Tweetery 22:17 I like how I still, once in a blue moon get in a cello-playing mood. Last time I had shorter hair. # 22:21 “There’s a girl in Kentucky. She gets up and goes to the window. She looks at her reflection. For a moment, she sees her wings.” www.☁.ws/뻭 # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (1 Comment |Comment on this)