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It's astounding how the stupidity rises dramatically when there is white stuff in the air :P

Fortunately, I was spared the worst of it: I've been taking a class downtown for the past 2 days so I've been using the subway.

The class was on web analytics. I find this seemingly "dry" topic quietly involving, as I'm finally learning how all those numbers can be used to represent activity by actual people. Faster connections, more/better gadgets and shiny things are fine and dandy, but it's the human use of the internet that still fascinates me, all these years after my first Prodigy(!) account when I learned what a fantastic collaborative and social tool it is :)

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Boyshorts are perhaps the comfiest, pretties panties ever (at least for me). However, I could stand a bra of last resort if I plan to keep doing this "jumping footwork" warmup.

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I've made surprising headway on holiday shopping.

literary/fannish podcastery

Old Wounds, the Firefly "season 2 that never was". I've listened to the whole thing and was surprised how well done it was: the plot smells Whedon-ish, the voice actors sound, if not exact, then close enough to the TV actors to make you see Mal, Inara, River etc. in your mind's eye, and the writing keeps everyone mostly in character (Wash a bit too flip, Zoey a bit too terse). Recommended.

Severance: Firefly 'verse, whole new characters and setting on a crime-free moon about to go bad. Less an audio drama and more of a book-on-tape, but the story is compelling enough to make me wonder what's going to happen next - wish they'd continue.

The Metamor City Podcast - original audio fiction that I only just now discovered through DragonPage Cover to Cover; haven't listened to it yet but am certainly curious enough to put it in my podcast aggregator.

See, this is where two of my casual interests collide: how people use the Internet and how people use fandom/fiction to tell their own stories :)