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[jazzfish]

On the one hand, Leonard Cohen has an absolutely amazing voice, and I'm really really glad I finally got around to picking up "The Essential Leonard Cohen" a few days ago. "Everybody Knows" and "Dance Me to the End of Love" send little shivers down my spine.

On the other hand, I've had the "doodah-dah-dah deedoodah-dah" from "Tower of Song" stuck in my head since the day before yesterday.

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Via Crooked Timber and bOING bOING: the best phiilosophy gedankenexperiment ever. Also a bit of history about how articles spread across the Internet, with a fascinating postscript on intellectual property.

From Echidna on Making Light, a carbon fiber cello. "Works just fine, and has the benefit of looking like Darth Vader's violin." Nearly enough to make me want to take up playing again. (This from a comment thread that started out talking about the myth of 'fluid glass,' and veers off to the timing of Kirk & Scotty's revelation of transparent aluminum, how airplanes and helicopters fly, and the obligatory brilliant poetry of John M. Ford. I love Making Light.)

From Zarf, a very small number of readers will understand or care why Inform 7 is absolutely jaw-dropping. There is no ghod but the Z-Machine, and Graham Nelson is its prophet.

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Last week I went in and got new glasses. I decided to go ahead and splurge, and got photogrey lenses and nice frames that can hold magnetic clip-on sunglasses for when I'm driving.

They came in day before yesterday. I went and picked them up, winced a bit at the strength of the prescription, got the frames adjusted to fit my head in record time (usually it takes two or three return visits), and headed home whistling.

I'd call what I experienced the next morning a 'headache' but that's not really sufficiently localised. This started at my eyebrows and stopped at the top of my cheekbones. I wrote it off as needing an adjustment to the new glasses until that evening, when I realised that A) a three-hour nap without the glasses had made the headache about 90% better, and B) putting them back on for five minutes brought it back full-force. So I'll be going to complain to the opticians in the mall tonight.

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[pictsy.livejournal.com]

This happened with my contacts, which is why I've just been wearing glasses for the past three years. I really need to go back to the opthalmologist and get a new prescription.

[jazzfish]

It happened with the optometrist trip two before this one, as well. I forget if that was for contacts or glasses. But that time they'd gotten the prescription seriously wrong on one eye and somewhat wrong on the other. "Hey," they said, "these things happen." No indication that they recognised that being without vision for several more days was a serious problem for me, or that they'd be taking any steps to correct it in the future.

I stopped going there.

This time, though, it's apparently just a need to break in my new prescription. Bleh.

[troyfish.livejournal.com]

I really need to get those songs from you at some point.

I think I have I'm your fan if you want to have some of that...

[scraun23.livejournal.com]

There's a band called Morphine that you might like as well, if you're into Leonard Cohen. Though you might already know about them, as one of the few other people I know that's aware of the Nails.