Administrivia: may be a bunch of posts today

[walkitout]

They are not posts I've had sitting around written -- they are posts I've been thinking about for a while, and they are on a to do list. I'm in the mood to clear the to do list, so I'm going to just grind some of these out. I wish that I were in the mood to do a thorough job on each of these, but it is increasingly clear that isn't going to happen -- and I'd rather have the possibility of hearing what my friends think about these things than no.