The short of it:  I have a new blog.  It is here:
aelfscine.wordpress.com

So it has gradually become clear that Livejournal sucks donkey balls.  Sold off to the Russians, LJ has languished in stasis as services like Wordpress and Blogger have come to define the modern-day blog.  Russian software developers have in my experience been bumbling and ( Read more... )

One artifact of the past that our children will never know is the dreaded AOL CD.  Utterly ubiquitous in the 90's, both the shitty company and their shitty CD's were simply unavoidable.  Always at the forefront of jackassery, AOL reached its pinnacle when it bought Time/Warner - at the time the media company was the 'old dog' being picked up by the ( Read more... )

Conservative talk radio host Mancow tried out being waterboarded in an attempt to disprove it as torture.

He lasted six seconds, after which he said:

"It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that's no joke,"Mancow said, likening it to a time when he nearly drowned as a child.  "It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your nose ( Read more... )

Thursday the 9th: Saw the new Star Trek movie with James and Karen.  It was a fun movie, but felt a little over-the-top silly for my taste ( Read more... )

newedition made some points on free markets and government regulation that I want to respond to.  She was talking about the new credit card bill:

"The bill is nonsensical for at least two fundamental reasons. First, it assigns government the authority to regulate business. Second, it violates the right of individuals to freely enter into contracts. Such is ( Read more... )

A well-spent day - talked to my dad for his birthday, went to the TESL party and hung out with folks, then went to Louis and Kim's and played games.  There were some new faces there, which was nice - several friends we've been trying to lure to game night made appearances, and I think they enjoyed themselves.  Excerrent ( Read more... )

The scourge of end-of-the-semester paper writing still looms, but progress is being made.  I've got two 25-30ish page papers due, one tomorrow, one Wednesday.  They're both at 15 pages so far, and should be fine by the time they need to be in ( Read more... )

Went in this afternoon and hung out with Louis - he's my best bud here in Stillwater, and he just acquired Photoshop, so we messed around in that for a while.  Sociolinguistics class was fun, people were presenting today and they all had pretty cool things to say.  Dennis had a party for us afterward and had a ridiculous amount of delcious food.  ( Read more... )

What the hell?

I'm supposed to be terrifying them by looking like a middle-aged man, not the other way around!

People (usually girls) who make their profile picture on something like Facebook one of the following ( Read more... )