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Has this ever happened in the history of email?

"When you are finished recording, you may hang up, or press star for more options. (pause) To leave a numeric page, press pound. (pause) *boop*"

Has this ever happened in the history of telephony? As an alternative to leaving a voice message and then hanging up, I mean.

The first one is just insulting legalese that I barely notice, but the second actively wastes my time every time I leave a voice mail for practically anyone. I hate it!

The snow kept the Andys away through Sunday, so this has been a really slacky weekend for me. Got into gear Sunday evening and am riding that into today, brum brum. Expect to see Space Station Assault become scrutable this week. It is a cool game and people should play it, gosh darn it... but I am well aware that, as currently presented, it's not very approachable to those who don't know the rules already.

Also, if you haven't seen Fluxx in the last few days, go check it out. I've been responding to feedback, and I think the game's sexier now than it was a week ago. I'm going to go ping the Looneys about it very soon, though I may hold off until I can coincide that communication with other stuff.

Feeling braver lately. Had one conversation late Saturday that was exactly the sort of conversation I hate having, involving questions that, once asked, make me want to barf. But of course all is better for its having happened. Much like barfing.

And the day before that, I was in Harvard Square and feeling a rush of wot de hell paid a visit to the university medical center's dental office. I nearly wept with gratitude upon learning that I can continue to avail myself of their services; I really love Dr. Joo and the other tooth-techs there. I don't have insurance any more, but the checkup fee I was quoted was basically the same as the last dentist bill I had to pay myself, some 10 years ago in Brewer, Maine. How about that!

So, Feb. 28 I will learn how well 15 months of flossing and fluoride rinsing's been paying off. Better stated as: I will learn if the two unresolved cavities have healed themselves (our optimistic goal), need to be filled anyway (dammit), or spiraled out of control and necessitate horrible blood-gushing surgery (unlikely).

Next is getting around to having a rest-of-body checkup, coz it's been a couple of years already... meh. Maybe wait until I see what happens with the company. If it turns out I need emergency same-day kidney detorsion or whatever, I may as well put it the triggering checkup off until I'll have insurance, from one source or another, ho ho.

I just told our lawyer that it was OK to compare his current situation of keeping multiple clients happy to that of a zookeeper during feeding time, so long as we got to be the monkeys.

An unfortunate miscommunication took place tonight. Actually it may have been the end of a misperception that had been hanging around since December, and which I didn't know about until someone happened to make a stinging reference to it in a social setting. It's paved over now, but I drum my fingers that it happened at all.

Look here: in any "delicate" situation, from matters to romance to complaining about the messy sink, dropping hints rarely works with me. It is a personal flaw, perhaps partially caused by an erroneous assumption that you talk like I do, and therefore sometimes utter nonsense because you felt like saying it for fun's sake.

Sometimes, when it seems that an utterance didn't sink in (often cued by me chuckling, saying "whee!", ignoring you, etc.) you have to say "No, jmac, seriously." It's only a little extra effort and it means so much to me, my friends. You might make me alarmed in the short term but I'll probably end up liking you more for helping me improve.

This here is about the neediest I ever get, interpersonally.

I have been thinking about the Singularity recently. I hunger to learn more about it; I have run into a lot of ideas, or at least pointers to ideas, and a lot sound amazing and an equal amount smell like finest-kind baloney to me. I want to absorb a survey of the current thinking and need to read a good non-fiction book about it. I have at least one in mind. (It reminds me of my recent interest in Peak Oil, and it's curious how many similarities I can draw between the two phenomena...)

Meh meh meh stuff deleted. I have a lot of disconnected thoughts here, many of which, yes, come spookily close to something that resembles religious conviction. Someday soon I will be moved to comb them into an essay. Maybe after I get some of that reading in.

derspatchel and friends have invented a great new mnemonic system for Morse Code. (Background.)

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

That's awful high, Jason. That's awful high.

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