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    Monday, February 8th, 2010
    11:10 am
    Maybe it's just as well I was offline.
    After catching up on the internet, either I am excessively excessively cranky, or the internet has been full of fail. Maybe too much of the good internet was busy in Ottawa.

    (Note that no instant messaging has occurred since Thursday, so it's nothing personal to anyone.)

    Current Mood: grumpy
    Current Music: Barenaked Cockburn - Tom Smith
    Sunday, February 7th, 2010
    4:56 am
    Weddings are a lot of work.
    I swear I will go to bed every night before 5am. It's a race.


    (wedding is not mine)
    Saturday, February 6th, 2010
    4:55 am
    Arrived
    I am in Canada. At [info]dagibbs' place, and he is an excellent host who hold an excellent party.
    Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
    10:55 am
    Reccomend me gloves
    So I need new gloves, to go with my sojourn in the cold, cold North, and am looking for advice on what I should get. LL Bean is preferred because I tend to like them and have a $10 gift card. Other suggestions of course welcome.

    Trail Model Fleece Gloves

    Wind Challenger Fleece Gloves
    Thursday, January 21st, 2010
    4:21 pm
    Games tomorrow?
    Anybody interested in Axis & Allies or Samurai Swords tomorrow afternoon/evening? I've got lots of room, a free day/evening and it's been far too long. I can whip up food and have plenty of drinks on hand if that's interesting.

    If people are interested in Munchkin etc we can do that too, but I wanted to take advantage of the free time to play something longer if possible.
    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
    So appropriate

    My Unitarian Jihad Name is: The Sabre of Mild Reason.


    Get yours.

    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:
    When she offers submission to the strongest wolf in town...

    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]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.


    Your result for The Social Persona Test (What kind of man/woman are you?)...

    The Frat Boy (NLAM)

    Normal Liberal Alpha Male


    huge )
    Let's get it out of the way: You can be a giant douche sometimes. Not that this is intentional. Despite some hedonistic tendancies, you are quite well meaning, and will try and help out peers you see as socially impaired. Just keep in mind that this help is not always needed, and that, believe it or not, there is more to life than having a good time.</em>


    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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    Take The Social Persona Test (What kind of man/woman are you?)
    at HelloQuizzy

    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 [info]patgund

    There's a myriad of them...



    Current Music: Weather Report - PDQ Bach
    Thursday, March 26th, 2009
    11:00 pm
    Set off by [info]sarahtales
    Zombie Dagny Taggart says:

    Traaaains.
    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
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