New posts will go here, then get moved over when I get the real server up and running again. Thanks to my brother for letting me use this machine. Hopefully the DNS will update soon (DNS provided by ZoneEdit, who I recommend).
One of the things that makes tennis such a great game is its scoring system, which can be considered apart from the rest of the rules of the game, concerned as they are with valid ways of scoring points and procedural issues.
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It’s still down, but some temporary measure should be up by the time you read this, hopefully tomorrow (Saturday). My email is working, although next week that too will be down (but I shouldn’t miss any emails, they’ll just stack up in the queue). When I get back, I need to get my old serer working, repair the new server, and then get offsite hosting going, and move to that.
Yes, it’s down again. I hope to have a temporary blog up and running tomorrow, but for the moment, it’s not functioning and will be out of service until about 5 July. Sigh. After that, hopefully I’ll finally get my digital infrastructure properly set up again—since January, most of my machines have died in one way or another, and I think I’m going to have to accept that at the very least I need to have a backup at some hosting facility, if not the primary site.
Why have there been so few good ones? I noticed this a while back, and having discussed the matter with some friends, it appears to be the case that the first decade of this millennium is really bad for cinematic science fiction.
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When I posted some of my favorite clips of his last week, he was apparently fine.
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For anyone who wanted to be there but couldn’t make it, here’s the speech I gave at my father’s funeral yesterday.
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A distraction of an entirely different kind, taking my mind off things by being deeply reprehensible, creepy, and disturbing:
I’ve been playing quite a lot of pool recently. Some chance factors led to this, primarily some Irish friends taking the game up shortly before I visited. I used to play a lot (it could be argued that pool was effectively one of my undergrad minors), but have never been particularly good.
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Removal from Quinn’s Funeral Home approximately 12:50–13:10, to Mount Jerome Crematorium at 14:00 on Saturday 21 June.
Reception from about 15:15 onwards, location TBD.