Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Silly Site o' the Day

I had just enough down time at the office that I was able to fill it by watching Day 1 of the Democon, skipping past the silences and some speeches, and it was pretty good. The thing that impressed me the most was that they addressed one of my personal pet peeves - every time they said "freedom" they actually defined the term! Made it so much better than the folks who use it as a meaningless buzzword, and much more understandable than casual English speech in 1586:


I got to walk back to the bus unburdened by my laptop in some of the most gorgeous weather imaginable, and the same should be true tomorrow, when I've decided to take an express then local bus into Chinatown for some dim sum. Yum!

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