About 6 feet tall, four shelves, about 12" deep, black particleboard shelving unit from Ikea. On the curb in front of 24 Washburn, Cambridge 02140.

I'm figuring out how to shoot video on my camera. Here is attempt number two. This time starring FEEP.

I'm looking for some freelance work to store up a little extra cash. I'll happily do copy editing, correlations, data entry, website updating, or anything that a) similarly employs my fussy, detail-oriented nature and b) can be done from home.

It doesn't seem like Craigslist is the place where people post this sort of thing anymore, though. I saw hardly anything in the "gigs" listings, and most were junk. Any idea where I ought to look?

(If you have other ideas about work I should look into, I'd love to hear that, too. I really can't take on anything that requires keeping to a regular schedule, though (except in the summer). My real job is too time-consuming and irregular.)

On the one hand I really was going to get around to moving my funds from former-employer 401(k) into current-employer 401(k) soon (like, early part of 2010) anyway. On the other hand, now I'm being pushed and obligated into doing so in an earlier time frame (old plan terminated November 30, which I just learned about today, having read the mail that arrived Friday). And that makes me feel a little grumpy.

It's not that it's that difficult to do. It's just that I need to track down the right info regarding details of name/address to make the rollover check to(probably easy to do at our hr website) and no doubt look up some PIN associated with the old 401(k) account (probably written down somewhere in a folder). But as the plan is terminated, even that might not work and I may in fact need to make a phone call. Ugh. Not something I wanted to have to remember to do on my first back at work, and in the midst of holiday-planning.

But once it's done, it'll be one less 2010 "to-do." So that's good I suppose.

The neighbor on the corner shoveled the sidewalk.

Last winter I think I saw his wife shoveling. Once. Remember last winter? With all the snow? Deep snow? Yeah.

Today I witnessed him carefully cleaning snow off of all the windows of their cars. But not off the cars' roofs, or trunks, or hoods.

This is the neighbor who has about as much of his yard covered with asphalt as with lawn (they can fit at least 6 cars in their driveway). The neighbor who built little wooden boxes around the street trees, and filled the boxes with red mulch. There is red mulch around the 8-10 small shrubby things in his yard and around the edge of the driveway, too.

The neighbor removes dead leaves from his driveway with a leaf blower. But the dead leaves on the sidewalk around his house? Were removed, finally, this week, by a group of people who showed up in a truck - a day or two after the final yard waste pickup of the year.

He trims the sad little shrubby things with something that looks like a chainsaw but I think is actually a hedge trimmer of some sort. It took him about 10 minutes to get it running properly, and then about 10 minutes to go trim the shrubs into a more appropriate, squared-off shape.

I think they must have some kind of power mower, too, for their anemic looking lawn, because it sure as hell isn't growing all wild and free. (Though they do have 3 small children, so I can understand wanting a trimmed lawn.)

The power equipment, the red mulch, the shrubs and lawn and inordinate parking space - it's like a little slice of suburbia.

Last winter I saw the dude spend quite a bit of time cleaning snow off the vehicles in the driveway, and then shoveling out the driveway, and then completely ignoring the snow on their sidewalk. BUT AT LEAST THEIR CARS ARE FREE!!!

AND YET it wasn't until this fall that a SNOW BLOWER finally appeared on their property (and I have been observing their shoveling behavior for approximately 6 winters now). I am not sure if I dare hope that snowblower -> passable sidewalks.

A PORN GAME WITH GAMEPLAY? WHO CARES LETS SEE THE PORN



SURPRISE IM NOT SHOWING YOU PORN



SAYS WHO



IT IS GOOD TO BE GOAL-ORIENTED



NOW THATS THE KIND OF PORN IM TALKING ABOUT

squishtophers SISTER had the WONDERFUL IDEA to celebrate burger king selling dollar double cheeeseburgers by having a BURGER ART SHOW instead of some dumb snowman solstice gingerbread chimney climbing five golden ring art show
burger king loses money every time you buy a burger! buy all the burgers! its like an xbox except ONLY A DOLLAR IT WONT MAKE A FUCKING DIFFERENCE AND BURGER KING IS GROSS BUT BOY YOU CAN FEEL LIKE A REAL REBEL BRING ALL YOUR BLACK BLOCK FRIENDS TO BURGER KING BLACK BLOCK BURGERS OH YEAH MAN
anyway so yeah
burgers
burgers
so we went, and edmund and danielle came too!
see, here they are

ps i was getting a drink and i found an airhorn I THOUGHT SODA CAME OUT OF IT I DONT KNOW WHY I WAS THINKING THIS BUT I WAS LIKE WOW A LOUD SODA BOTTLE THIS IS GONA BE SO COOL boy id dint know how loud airhorns are


but i have a magical cursed GOOSEBUMPS CAMERA that makes people old so afterwards they looked like this


sorry guys

BUT YEAH BURGERS SO MANY BURGERS



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How come every time there's an ONTD post about me there's a million pictures of Doc Hammer in the comments?

I used the helpful code here to make a spline and get an object to follow the path of the spline. I'm going to need to tweak the code so the player can control the character on the spline and hopefully I won't get lost in it. I'm glad I didn't need to write this:
http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=Spline_Controller

I revised the house. Screenshots of it and the spline are behind the cut.
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I was unable to use my dishwasher this evening because my youngest
seems to have accidentally (?) turned on the child lock feature. I tried
all the buttons for a few seconds each, but the lock light just flashed at
me and nothing happened. This being the modern age, rather than try
to remember where the previous unit owners left all the manuals, I did
a quick web search and had the answer within seconds. Good thing
children can't use the web... Anyway, it turns you have to hold down the
energy saver button for 4 seconds, and I only did 2 or 3.

Glassy-eyed feeling
Interred in a blanket tomb
Presently snow falls

I bought two blankets today. One of them is because I anticipate one of my brothers and sister-in-law visiting over the Winter holiday. I wrapped Christmas presents, vacuumed, and tidied with some for-laminate spray and wipe. I've been puzzling over how to do something in my game. If you want to be able to make the player go left and right but have the course seem to change direction, I need to either make the player automatically rotate at certain points or make the entire environment rotate around the player at certain points. It sounds crazy, but it's something I'm thinking of. I might have been putting this off because a fair amount of experimentation will be needed for this, but it needs to be done.

Can anyone recommend a good physical therapist? Local is best, but anyone T-accessible would be fine. Preferably it would be somebody who has experience with arm and hand injuries (which I assume is going to be most physical therapists).

Here's an interesting contest by DARPA, celebrating the internet. Network with folks you know around the US, and see how many of the red DARPA weather balloons your network can find. The MIT team is sharing the prize, while doing an experiment, too. It's just started today, and probably won't take more than a day or two to finish, so check it out asap, if you're curious.

It might be fun...

MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team

Sib 1 has informed me that Nib 2 has been reading, and likes, P.K. Dick stuff. Since I do really like P.K. Dick's work, I am delighted (and to be honest I didn't even know if Nib was much of a reader). Now, I might just give him that Kindle I've ordered (though I was getting a little attached to the idea of owning it myself) along with an Amazon giftcard, but I'm also considering actually buying a book or two. Thing is, I don't know what titles he's read, though it sounds like he recently read, and liked the VALIS trilogy--sib didn't remember the title but did remember "trilogy" and that's the only Dick thing I'm aware of that falls into trilogy territory.

So, given that as a minimal sort of clue, what other Dick, or other authors would you recommend as of likely interest to someone who appreciated VALIS? (I don't remember if I've read it--so much of my P.K. Dick reading was so long ago-- so don't have a strong sense of what other Dick would be most similar; and I'm not a well-rounded enough reader to create a good hook from what I do know of it to other authors.)

why couldnt i have woken up this early yesterday when i needed to.