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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
6:19 pm	Commitment Ceremony Highlights (27 photos) Pati and my Commitment Ceremony* was this past Sunday. It went wonderfully. Thanks to everyone who helped out and everyone who came! *: "Not A Wedding" See on Google+ (Comment on this)
Friday, May 4th, 2012
2:31 pm	Wizard Prom/Battle of Hogwarts (3 photos) Some photos of me (Lisa Turpin) from Wizard Prom before the Battle of Hogwarts. Photo thanks to ezyang/Colin Creevy. See on Google+ (Comment on this)
2:31 pm	Reshared from Chris Lesniewski "There are 500 million surface-lot parking spaces in the U.S., covering more than 3,590 square miles, a landmass larger than Puerto Rico." Book Review: Rethinking a LotI Know It's Here Somewhere (Comment on this)
2:31 pm	Reshared from Nelson Elhage Finally released a tool/demo that I've been working on for a few months now. Live-grep on the Linux Kernel: Regex search across all 13M lines of code, with realtime results as-you-type! http://livegrep.com/ code search ⋅ search (Comment on this)
2:31 pm	Reshared from Andrew Clough Happy birthday, Red Line (Comment on this)
Friday, March 16th, 2012
4:40 pm	Plusery Doing a run of glow-in-the-dark Sport Death Eaters shirts in anticipation of the Battle of Hogwarts! Let me know if you want in. http://web.mit.edu/xavid/Public/sportdeatheaters.png "Avada Kedavra can kill you" See on Google+ (Comment on this)
4:40 pm	Reshared from Andrew Clough Genderswapped Harry Potter Characters Will Make You Think All The Things (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
1:22 pm	New Desk (5) Some photos from my new desk, featuring the new shelf and other decorations I got from my family over the holidays. NewDesk | 106067820097042125274 See on Google+ (Comment on this)
1:22 pm	Reshared from Scott McCloud Cool comic. From +Hasan Khalil. Holy Moley, what a beautiful 24-hour comic from Boulet. Took a couple extra hours I guess, but hey, I could take an extra week and it wouldn't look this good. Part of Angouleme's annual 24 hour event with about 450 participants this year. The Bouletcorp » Darkness (Comment on this)
1:22 pm	Reshared from Ariel Segall I'm a big fan of both Ariel and her chocolate. Dark Matter Chocolate Laboratory is having a Valentine's Day chocolate sale to benefit the American Heart Associated for those interested. Lots of truffles this time around, plus a bunch of new geeky molds. (You wanted a chocolate TARDIS, right?) Order before Feb. 5 for delivery by Valentine's Day, or arrange local pickup. http://goo.gl/2gliF (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 21st, 2012
1:19 am	Mage Day Photos (11 photos) A bit belatedly, Mage Day photos, featuring a holly wreath, the bird treat pinecones Sarah, Pati, and I made, and tree with lights. See on Google+ (Comment on this)
1:19 am	High School Senior Photo (1 photo) +Fish N wanted to see this, so feast your eyes on my watch-add-like short-hair High School senior photo. Alas, this is after I lost the peach fuzz moustache. See on Google+ (Comment on this)
1:19 am	Synchronicity (1 photo) My most interesting acquisition this evening, as a man wearing a trenchcoat. See on Google+ (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
10:06 am	Reshared from Rob Salzman Monster Cable Claims EBay, Craigslist, Costco & Sears Are 'Rogue Sites' | Techdirt (Comment on this)
12:35 am	Reshared from Amy Barich End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
12:53 pm	Reshared from Colin McMillen: Adding funny text to photos (5 photos) Adding funny text to photos Adding a few words can turn a silly photo into a ROFL, or draw attention to what you find most interesting. Today we're rolling out a feature that makes it easier to add big, bold text on top of your photos. To try it out, drop a photo into the sharebox on Google+, then click the "Add text" button underneath the photo. Type in something funny, then share and enjoy. This feature will be rolling out over the next few days -- I hope you enjoy it! :) We'll be keeping our eyes on the stream for the funniest examples, so have fun! #funwithphotos #googleplusupdate We made a few to get you started: See on Google+ (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
2:06 pm	Reshared from Sai . So it seems that +Stephen Harper's government just decided to retroactively annul same-sex marriages performed in Canada if the spouses' respective native countries would not have permitted them. I looked at the law that created same-sex marriage in Canada [1] (via linked metafilter) but see no mention of such a requirement. I don't see, legally, why Canada should give a shit about whether people who want to marry there could get married in their native countries. AFAIK there's no treaty obligation of this kind; if anything, international human rights treaties would argue in the other direction. Can anyone dig up the actual, formal legal argument being put forward by the Harper administration for why this requirement actually exists and is binding? I understand their action only if such requirement already exists; I don't see how they could do so merely by administrative fiat. Preëmptively: please don't use comments on my post to rant about this. Do so on your own turf. The rant is too obvious to be worth the space. (I'll summarize for you: WTF Canada, you're supposed to be our hat sane, nice friends. And what Dan Savage said [2].) So please stick to more interesting commentary. [1] http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&DocId=3293341 [2] http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/01/12/canadas-conservative-government-turns-my-husband-back-into-my-boyfriend Catch 167: Harper government pulls rug out from under non-Canadian gay couples who married here in good faith | MetaFilter (Comment on this)
2:06 pm	Reshared from Sara Lang Must Read Piece (Comment on this)
2:05 pm	Reshared from RJ Ryan Really nice outcome for the now-defunct Google Body project. Open-sourced code and the data is now hosted by the actual owner at http://zygotebody.com Google Body becomes Zygote Body; built on open source 3D viewer - Google Open Source Blog (Comment on this)
Friday, January 6th, 2012
2:32 pm	Reshared from Hitherby Dragons http://imago.hitherby.com/2004/08/a-succession-of-magical-fish/ . . . Ellen sits on the shore of Lake Tahoe. There’s a splash. A fish lands on the beach next to her. It wriggles in the sand. “Fish,” Ellen says. She raises an eyebrow. “I am a magic fish,” the fish says. “If you throw me back in, I’ll grant you your heart’s desire.” “I don’t have one,” Ellen says. “Oh.” The fish thinks. “I could give you a free ice cream.” . . . ** I've always been fond of this one. I figured out eventually that it's a metaphor for the djinn. Hitherby Dragons - A Succession Of Magical Fish (Comment on this)