OMG, ded from cute: [link]

Stephanie, here's a link to a searchable CFR. Title 1, maybe?

I think Sparky is right, Stephanie

I think what I was looking for was Title 5, U.S.C. Section 553, which covers rule making. I'm arguing that the agency effectively made a major change without notice or publishing in the FR and they are, I assume, going to argue that the change was minor. But what I needed was the part of the law that lays out how to make those changes. Once I added APA to my search, I found the answer pretty quickly. See, hivemind works again!

juliana! Matilda was obsessed with you this morning. We spent the entire coffee-and-bottle-of-milk early AM cuddle period in front of the computer as she scrutinized one picture after another of you with your motorcycle; each time we got to the end of the gallery, she'd look indignant and say, "More Du-jiana!"

Of course, the next time you see her she'll probably still be quiet and standoffish and stare at you like you must be insane if you ask her to say your name, but she's totally saying it as long as you yourself are safely out of sight.

Yesterday's ice cream eating whitefont was the most happy-making whitefont I've seen in ages, possibly ever.

Sean, I also think the poll is meaningless, and San Francisco is much closer than New York. (Not that I want you to kick my ass, but I totally want you to come up here and threaten to kick it, so I can roll my eyes at you and take you out for coffee.)

(Or, you know, you could just come up here for no reason at all, meaningless polls and ass-kickings be damned.)

and San Francisco is much closer than New York. (Not that I want you to kick my ass, but I totally want you to come up here and threaten to kick it, so I can roll my eyes at you and take you out for coffee.)

HA!

I definitely feel like I need a little SF time soon. I'm quite busy over the next couple of months, but it means I'll be making some very good money. Which in turn means I'll be able to make a nice SF trip soon. Probably around the holidays.

I'm also hoping it will mean that I'll be able to make a PNW trip eventually, and maybe even a NYC trip some time next year, but I don't want to make any promises....

the next time you see her she'll probably still be quiet and standoffish and stare at you like you must be insane if you ask her to say your name, but she's totally saying it as long as you yourself are safely out of sight.

Eeeeee! My charm clearly only works from a distance. I promise, as soon as I get the bike out of registration hell, I'll come over and visit and Matilda can pat the actual bike.

(Your story of her looking at my work and saying, "Lady? Lady? Oh. No lady." killed me.)

Heh--a friend just emailed me and told me about the childrens librarian they just hired at the library he works at. "She is a nerd out of the Kathy [A] mold. OK, not entirely like you - I do not think she likes romance books. But other than you, she is the only female-type I have met who likes the SF/Fantasy genre."

I'll have to remind him that there are a lot of us out there. Heck, I can think of at least three at the bookstore, let alone the women here!

I think I'm doomed....

The Stigma Of The Never-Married Man

"These guys get labeled playboy, loser, commitment-phobe," says Carl Weisman, author of So Why Have You Never Been Married? According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, in 1980 only 6 percent of men between 40 and 44 had never been married; in 2008 it was 16 percent. But even though there are more of them around, men with long-term single status still have a hard time explaining their situation to potential dates, who see a guy entering middle age without ever having been married as damaged goods. In fact, a man whose marriage failed spectacularly tends to arouse less suspicion than a straight, still-single 41-year-old. "If he's over 40, you would hope that he's divorced," says Janis Spindel, a high-end matchmaker in New York who gets calls from hundreds of single women asking for setups. Evidence that even unmarried men in their mid-thirties are suspect is in her fee structure: The up-front charge for guys under 35 is $25,000; for those 35-plus it's $50,000.

Hee! JZ, that's hilarious.

Lillian often asks things like "What's Baby Matilda doing?" when we look at Flickr. She has invisible internet friends she only knows from pictures! She's especially fond of Noah, who is always doing such interesting things and making such interesting faces, but she digs all the b.org sprog and will force me to look at "pictures of babies" for hours.

Actually, FLAT is one of the few landscapes that freaks me out. I couldn't stand driving through Nebraska (the long way), and the only reason I can tolerate driving through California's central valley on the way up to San Francisco is because I can see the Diablo mountains off in the distance to the West.

DUDE, no kidding! Flat's just WRONG.

DUDE, no kidding! Flat's just WRONG.

Thanks to the glacial moraines, Michigan is hilly. Not foothills hilly, but hilly enough that didn't know what flat was until I drove through real flatlands.