The begging campaign begins: Dear Lego You should really, really send me a review copy of the Sagrada Família set....
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The begging campaign begins: Dear Lego You should really, really send me a review copy of the Sagrada Família set....
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Door number 3
I had two different possible plans for tonight’s post, and I’m putting both of them away for the time being– one of them because, well, it’s a book review and because of a family event tonight I haven’t finished the book yet (and, to be honest, I may need to ruminate on this one for a minute before writing it anyway) and the second because there is another related family event in a couple of days…
Oh wow
Not to step on my own book review, but at some point this month the blog crossed over a million all-time page views. Amazing. Thanks, everyone.
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Eek
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Today’s blogwanking WTF moment
Why, yes, I’m writing two posts back-to-back. Today is, by a wide margin, the highest-traffic day in the history of the blog. Even when In which I tell you how your religion works was blowing up on its way to amassing over 100,000 views, the biggest single day was 12K. To get an idea of how ridiculous those numbers are, I had more pageviews today than all but three months in the twelve and a…
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I hate to do this two nights in a row
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Yep, it's cold
We haven’t gotten any substantial snow yet, but I think the idea is it’s supposed to mostly roll in tomorrow and Sunday, so we’ll see what happens. My classes went fine today; turns out that if you tell kids you’ll give them extra credit if they show their pets (or any nearby object they’re willing to pretend is a pet) on camera, they show up for Meets, and then they even stick around…
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In which I feel a bit better
Apparently the way to get a lot done at work is to be really, really depressed all day on Sunday. I got to school this morning and discovered my usual Monday morning meeting was cancelled, and man, I did not get enough sleep last night to be emotionally or physically capable of sitting alone in my classroom for an hour, staring at the walls. So somehow, instead of falling asleep at my desk, I…
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