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"To ask why the President of the United States would have a sexual encounter with a young woman is like asking why someone who worked very hard to earn a large sum of money would then spend it. What distinguishes Bill Clinton is not that he had extramarital affairs while in office -- others have, more will; it would be a Darwinian puzzle if they did not -- what distinguishes him is the fact that he got caught." -- Alan S. Miller Ph.D. and Satoshi Kanazawa Ph.D., "Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature", Psychology Today, Jul/Aug 2007 (Adapted from Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa, to be published by Perigee in September 2007.)

"To ask why the President of the United States would have a sexual encounter with a young woman is like asking why someone who worked very hard to earn a large sum of money would then spend it. What distinguishes Bill Clinton is not that he had extramarital affairs while in office -- others have, more will; it would be a Darwinian puzzle if they did not -- what distinguishes him is the fact that he got caught." -- Alan S. Miller Ph.D. and Satoshi Kanazawa Ph.D., "Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature", Psychology Today, Jul/Aug 2007 (Adapted from Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa, to be published by Perigee in September 2007.)

Dear Lazyweb,

How do I make a bootable USB thingie? It can't be as easy as making a bootable floppy image and then just 'dd'ing that to the USB drive, can it? (I've got a USB CF reader and a spare CF card larger than a floppy; depending on just how small a CD DSL is supposed to fit on, I might even have room for that.)

My wrist wasn't too bad yesterday as long as I was very, very careful how I used that hand. Today it's excruciating. :-(

I got word yesterday that an uncle has died. Still waiting to hear when the funeral will be (and then to figure out how I'll get there -- it'll be somewhere in NoVa).

Today's Tuesday, right? It feels like a Thursday. I've finally started doing post-Pennsic laundry. That'll take a while, given how painfully slow my dryer is. (Yeah, I can hang up a lot of clothes. I don't have room to hang up blankets.) Even the things that never left my tent smell of wood smoke. So did my hair for the first few days I was home.

Tomorrow, assuming I can work out travel (and it looks as though I can, thanks to anniemal), HCB rehearsal will be a test run for how I plan to try to deal with my wrist at our gigs this weekend. Let's see how far ice packs and carefully timed painkillers / anti-inflammatories can get me, and just how much I can adapt to strumming with the Ace bandage on. I figured out how to hold my electric guitar in bed to be able to strum somewhat (with a different arm motion than normal); today I'll try with an acoustic guitar and see whether I can still get the right position on an instrument with a deeper body.

Dear Lazyweb,

How do I make a bootable USB thingie? It can't be as easy as making a bootable floppy image and then just 'dd'ing that to the USB drive, can it? (I've got a USB CF reader and a spare CF card larger than a floppy; depending on just how small a CD DSL is supposed to fit on, I might even have room for that.)

My wrist wasn't too bad yesterday as long as I was very, very careful how I used that hand. Today it's excruciating. :-(

I got word yesterday that an uncle has died. Still waiting to hear when the funeral will be (and then to figure out how I'll get there -- it'll be somewhere in NoVa).

Today's Tuesday, right? It feels like a Thursday. I've finally started doing post-Pennsic laundry. That'll take a while, given how painfully slow my dryer is. (Yeah, I can hang up a lot of clothes. I don't have room to hang up blankets.) Even the things that never left my tent smell of wood smoke. So did my hair for the first few days I was home.

Tomorrow, assuming I can work out travel (and it looks as though I can, thanks to anniemal), HCB rehearsal will be a test run for how I plan to try to deal with my wrist at our gigs this weekend. Let's see how far ice packs and carefully timed painkillers / anti-inflammatories can get me, and just how much I can adapt to strumming with the Ace bandage on. I figured out how to hold my electric guitar in bed to be able to strum somewhat (with a different arm motion than normal); today I'll try with an acoustic guitar and see whether I can still get the right position on an instrument with a deeper body.

The reminder I was going to post yesterday about the two Homespun Ceilidh Band gigs in a row this weekend, except that I got distracted -- here's some cut&paste from Felicia's most recent mailing with details:

Anybody headed to Greenbelt from Baltimore on Friday? Or from Bowie to either Baltimore or Relay on Saturday afternoon?

The reminder I was going to post yesterday about the two Homespun Ceilidh Band gigs in a row this weekend, except that I got distracted -- here's some cut&paste from Felicia's most recent mailing with details:

Anybody headed to Greenbelt from Baltimore on Friday? Or from Bowie to either Baltimore or Relay on Saturday afternoon?