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Recent entries
some death-defying species from madagascar, my death defied and her extinction defied, yeah both in one trip - 2009-08-11
the borg - 2009-08-10
appearing soon in your hometown - 2009-08-10
tweet - 2009-08-09
don't be talking about me in front of my face, yall - 2009-08-06
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By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets.
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A bibliography of my published books and stories.
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Here's my card-counting FAQ. |
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| Visit my original website but I recommend putting pop-up/banner blockers on first. |
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| A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!!
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Adult readers only please -- explicit sex and violence. For updates
on the "Dead Tree Project" and other topics, you may visit
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| Visit Peachfront's Cookbook, for recipes that are fast, cheap, and good. A work in progress. |
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| The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill blog by Mark Bittner about feral Cherry-Headed Conures in San Francisco. |
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that 2007 resolution scorecard
2007-12-31 - 11:08 a.m.
© 2007 by elaine radford
verreaux's sifaka at berenty
I still have tons and tons of lemur photographs to sort out, as I was reminded by another, more efficient woman on the
trip, who sent a Christmas card with (I think) the same lemur above, as well as an entire CD of photographs edited,
organized, and complete with annotation and maps. Sigh. I kidded with her, saying maybe
I'd send people her CD, but maybe it isn't such a kid. I think it will be weeks more before I get around
to finishing mine.
Yeah, so about those 2007 New Year's Resolutions.
Pitiful, just pitiful. I thought I'd abandoned the new venture and that I would have plenty of time.
Instead, I acquired a backer, and I have no time and no routine.
So let's try not to laugh too hard at my ridiculous showing.
- Get up at 8 A.M. or earlier 6 days a week. Forget about it. Not physically possible
when crawling into bed at around 5 A.M. after toiling away for 15 solid hours.
- Exercise 30 minutes a day 6 days a week, including weight-training sessions twice a week.
For pretty much the first time since I was in fifth grade, I didn't exercise. Well, for the first three
months of the year, but after that, no. Honestly not sure how it can fit into a schedule like this.
Apparently, I'm still in good enough shape to scale the sides of mountains in Madagascar, but I did
lose enough weight to feel I looked quite haggard. Eggnog and Godiva have put it back where
it should be, but eggnog can't develop muscle. So I'm going to have to figure something out.
- Take a least one bird walk a month. Done! Somehow, you knew that if I kept any resolution, it would
be this one.
- Increased the amount of dividends/interest earned by $100 a month total over 2008. I won't know for sure
until I go over my 1099s for 2007, but I doubt I was able to. I moved some stuff around to higher interest
earning accounts, though, so I did give it the old college try.
- Two hours of yard work a week. Please. Actually, I did do this, for the first three months of
the year. Not that you can tell or anything.
- Sell 100 pounds of items. It's just pitiful that I never made the time to do something this easy.
- Listen to an audio lesson for 15 minutes a day 5 days a week. I actually did this one, except
that I kind of collapsed and never did it even once after returning from Madagascar.
- Review a chapter of exercises in the Photoshop CS2 manual every month. I reviewed one chapter
in January. Sigh.
later
Well, I've been pampering my feet every day and been doing a lot of brown sugar scrubs, and finally I think they've recovered enough from my adventures in rainforest mountain climbing to let me put on the hot pink toenail polish. Wheee!
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