Harvard Bookstore warehouse sale this weekend

Saturday, June 23 and Sunday, June 24
10am to 6pm
14 Park Street, Somerville, MA

A special promotion for Twitter users: Tweet your favorite find at our summer warehouse sale using #HBSWarehouseSale. We'll pick one winner from each day to receive a $25 Harvard Book Store gift card! Follow us on Twitter at @HarvardBooks.

Lego for the goths of us

If I collected stuff, I would have to have one of these, an actual Lego haunted house
http://www.shadowmanor.com/blog/?p=15272
(the gramophone in the attic completely wins my heart).

An unfortunate MicroSoft incident with

I now know that when Outlookk Express asks if you would like to compact your e-mail, "compact" is used in the sense of compacting as in deleting, as opposed to, you know, compacting as in the sense of making smaller. Ultimately, I guess it did render my inbox much less full while sparing me the emotional turmoil of deciding if I thought that e-mail was important or not.

However, as our home network was down for a couple of days, if you sent me e-mail recently I probably haven't had the opportunity to read it and, if it was something you believe I should be aware of, you should resend the e-mail.

Darth Vader gargoyle

From The Art of Darkness blog
http://www.shadowmanor.com/blog/?p=15097
which includes pictures and information about the tours for the relevant cathedral in Washington, DC (why does the last part not surprise me?).