Heheh. The latest XKCD is great, for all of you poor souls who do not have the XKCD RSS feed on LJ.

Going back home to eastern oregon tomorrow morning. I'm not looking forward to the drive. I am, however, looking forward to camping, to relative isolation, and to not having any electronics around me. So have a good night Internet-land, I'll not see you again until Tuesday ( Read more... )

You know those really, really simple shows you watch during the first couple weeks of a high school spanish class, when nobody knows how to say anything useful or interesting?

Did you ever go back and rewatch them at the end of the semester?

A coworker of mine showed me this the other day. His wife teaches Spanish, and plans to show this video ( Read more... )

I'm going hunting this year. It is effectively my first time doing so; I went once when I was a kid but stayed in camp all the while. That's next weekend ( Read more... )

I've been awfully bored of late. My two most easy entertainment options are TV or painkillers, and I figure watching TV is probably a better overall decision in the long run. I was trying to come up with names of shows to watch on TV-links when I remembered a friend of mine back in pendleton had a boxed set of a David Lynch series called Twin ( Read more... )

It really does amaze me just how much the crappiest parts of Israel resemble Eastern Oregon. I look at pictures like this every time I wonder why people would fight over such a place. Doing so has never lessened my confusion.

( Image of ruins of Gamla, in the Golan, destroyed by Rome's Legio X Fretensis in 67 CE. )

I had no idea these people were still around.

Old Dawners, meet New Dawners. Now argue one another to death. It's what you're good at.

That's quite a magical clock on my wall, that read 2:00 AM a moment ago and now suddenly tells me it's 6:00. Damn you, internet.

I think this pretty much sums up how I feel about way too many things.


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Oh, and I almost forgot: "Yarr! And such."