Asymptomatic

This extension to MediaWiki lets you insert some marked code to create interesting graphs right in the wiki.

My Secret Santa gift just arrived! Unfortunately, I had to “unwrap” it early to find out what it was instead of leaving it a surprise. I’m expecting certain other items for my personal gift-giving to appear in Amazon boxes, you see.

Anyway, it’s a copy of Neal Stephenson’s The System of the World! Just what I needed to complete my trilogy! Thanks so much to my Secret Santa!

I stopped at Wawa between dropping Abby off at school and going to work so I could get something to drink. (Wawa is the regional convenience store, named after a local farm, which was named after a tribe of indians.) A large van belonging to some car servicing company was parked oddly - it was blocking several prime parking spaces. I didn’t really get a good look at what was going on, but I was thinking, “That’s somewhat rude to just sit there and block all of those parking spots, not to mention the traffic flow, just so you can talk to your buddy while you drink your coffee.”

When I came out of Wawa, I realized what was going on.

I watched the rest of EarthSea last night, and I have several thoughts about it.

First, the director must have been a fan of the EarthSea books. You can tell because he allowed an amazing amount of detail from the book to fill in the parts of the movie that made no sense. It’s as if he applied his book knowledge to the characters in the movie, and as a result, those parts are missing.

I don’t know what postcardx. is exactly, but sending postcards to random people looks intriguing.