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Andrew Lambdin-Abraham's LiveJournal:
| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | |
| 6:48 pm | A movie to look forward to Eagle of the Ninth being made into a movie I really liked this book when I read it at 13 or so. I never thought about it being YA, but it did seem to suit me well then. Of course, so did Ayn Rand and Tom Clancy. Anyway, should be a fun movie. |
| Friday, October 16th, 2009 | |
| 6:05 pm | |
| Thursday, October 15th, 2009 | |
| 10:42 pm | Nothing to say I realized I haven't updated here in quite a while, and the real answer is that I have almost nothing to say it feels like. I do post a LITTLE more often on Facebook, but I'm too lazy to manually cross-post. Is there any little widget or thing that will do it for you? That said, I am currently trying to figure out why my spreadsheet and my AAdvantage account are in perfect agreement about the number of segments (individual flights) I've flown but 2000 Elite Qualifying Miles and 1000 Elite Qualifying Points (ie, exactly one round trip to somewhere within 500 miles of Dallas, connecting there) more recorded on the account than in my spreadsheet. It is a mystery. Which I hope is not a phantom, because I need 1000 of those EQMs at the end of the year. |
| Thursday, August 20th, 2009 | |
| 1:27 am | Funny that I was looking at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books and one of their ads on the right side caught my eye. It's actually an animated ad, but here's what I saw first:  Werewolf Twilight??? I'd link directly to the ad (since showing people's ads without being paid for them seems pretty fair) but I can't find it again refreshing their page several times. |
| Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 | |
| 10:57 am | |
| Monday, August 17th, 2009 | |
| 2:35 am | That took a long time I just went back and read most of the LJ posts I've ever made to my journal. It was interesting. Unfortunately, lots of links were broken ( www.renporn.com isn't even mostly in the Wayback Machine). However, I figure I'd bring back a few old things: Bobo, the Anarcho-Syndicalist Panda. A Quiz, and my first Bujold fanfic Macworld San Francisco 2006 predictions from someone else on Ars Also lots of emo and ranting about being a student, and UT, and being in New Zealand. I also seemed to get a lot more comments back then. Anyway, thanks for being with me. |
| Monday, July 13th, 2009 | |
| 11:09 pm | Checking in & awesome webcomic Just checking in to note that today I started Tier 2 training. Should be about a 4k raise and of course, more visibility and credibility when I tell people how messed up something is. In other news, I spent most of the evening reading Darths & Droids, a webcomic made by taking still images from the Star Wars prequel movies and pretending that they're a generic roleplaying game. The argument is that lots of the events of the movie make more sense if they were done by players desperately trying to hit every plot nail with their hammer of min/maxed stats than if they were scripted by an actual writer. It's quite compelling. |
| Monday, June 1st, 2009 | |
| 10:19 pm | Economics, it's a noble thing An excerpt from J. K. Galbraith's "Money" p108 : Eighteen years later, after the panic of 1837, the New York Herald concluded that "The United States were never in such a perilous condition as they are at this moment." In a burst of chivalrous compassion it said that that especially "We weep and mourn for the poor, blushing, weeping, defenseless, innocent, beauteous females who are involved in the general crash." Every later panic brought similar expressions of despair and and almost equally alarming prose. Current Music: Elizabeth - Zöe Lewis |
| 10:03 pm | Because we didn't want you anyway I'm at Genuine Joe's tonight, so I may be exercising Xjournal a bit and posting a lot. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} james_nicholl has posted a NESFA "Core Reading List" of 726 authors and 3742 works.Which is listed with incredibly arcane notes that aren't defined at all on the page: Ackroyd, Peter [k,Pf] n 1985 Hawksmoor I'm trying to decide is this is the most newbie-hostile piece of web in fandom, or if I can fine something worse easily. Don't feel obligated to go looking, of course. Current Mood: dispairing Current Music: Small Is Tremendous - Zöe Lewis |
| Friday, May 15th, 2009 | |
| 9:40 pm | Sure, why not.
The Frat Boy (NLAM)Normal Liberal Alpha Male
When dating, stay away from Beta Females; I know you don't mean to break their hearts, but it will happen. Look for the types you don't normally go for, as they will make a better match in the long run. You are more NORMAL than QUIRKY. You are more LIBERAL than TRADITIONAL. You are more DOMINANT than PASSIVE. When picking a date, consider: The Rarity (QTAF), The Renaissance Faire Wench (QLAF), or The FemiNazi (NLAF). Avoid: Any Beta Females
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| Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | |
| 12:02 am | Electro-Mechanical Rhapsody I expect a lot of y'all read Making Light, but in case you don't, here's a link to someone doing Bohemian Rapsody with: The lineup of performers is: HP ScanJet 3C, vocals Atari 800XL, piano/organ Texas Instruments TI-99/4a, lead guitar 8-inch Floppy Disk Drive, bass 3.5-inch Hard Drive, gong |
| Friday, March 27th, 2009 | |
| 10:17 pm | This would go over so well at work Hat tip to patgundThere's a myriad of them... Current Music: Weather Report - PDQ Bach |
| Thursday, March 26th, 2009 | |
| 11:00 pm | |
| Thursday, March 19th, 2009 | |
| 8:59 pm | We Haven't Got There Yet We Haven't Got There Yet is a very good story by Harry Turtledove in which William Shakespeare attends a performance of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Highly recommended, and available free from Tor.com. |
| Monday, February 9th, 2009 | |
| 10:57 am | |
| Friday, January 30th, 2009 | |
| 5:36 pm | |
| 5:25 pm | Wait, wait! I just listened to the latest "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me" podcast on my iPod, and I was struck by how much it's essentially self-referential, in an NPR way. It was also hilariously funny, of course. But it's very much playing to its audience of progressive, liberal NPR listeners, and probably has very limited appeal, even relevance to anyone else. It's interesting recognizing how much it's based on an in-group, and being a part of that group. |
| Monday, January 26th, 2009 | |
| 10:54 pm | Contemplating a Pismo Ars Technica did a retrospective on 25 Years of Macintosh. It's pretty cool, but one of the things it's done to me is inspire a desire to pickup a used Powerbook G3 (Pismo) on eBay or something. They're so sexy, and moderately cheap: http://cgi.ebay.com/G3-Powerbook-PI http://cgi.ebay.com/G3-Ultimate-Powerbo http://cgi.ebay.com/PowerBook-Pismo-G http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Powerbook-G |
| Sunday, January 25th, 2009 | |
| 8:39 am | |
| Saturday, January 24th, 2009 | |
| 5:18 pm | Heading to Genuine Joe's I figure I'll hang out and read, maybe keeping an eye on IM, until I hear further plans. Company welcome, conversational or not. http://www.genuinejoe.com/ |
