today's dilbert cartoon is awesome. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-06-30/Read more... )

U.S. Puzzle Championship this weekend (wpc.puzzles.com - though i think it is already too late for registration ( Read more... )

so, i have been told this place is growing weeds. in the ~3 months since i last wrote, approximately a million people have added me as a friend, then deleted their accounts ;) (i did visit a few times in the meantime, didn't have to see all of those events at the same time). anyway, the main reason i don't post much is because Facebook is now ( Read more... )

suppose you have a list of things you like about people, and/or qualities you want in a significant other (or close friends, which is pretty much the same to me - and if you make a very big difference, please explain ... and of course there would be things that you wouldn't be able to stand in a SO that your friends have, but that is why they are ( Read more... )

so this journal is 7 years old now (as of yesterday). scary :) that's the age a first or second-grader ( Read more... )

so now it is up to me to make the puzzles for this year's BG sudoku championship... in a week... ouch :) 
so i need to learn quickly.
good thing is, i guess i am a good learner ;) (and thomas has written some things that should help, hopefully)

a guy can learn a lot about his own culture from reading wikipedia:

"However, in Serbian and Bulgarian folklore, dragons are defenders of the crops in their home regions, fighting against a destructive demon Ala, whom they shoot with lightning."

from the article on dragons. which is something i never really heard of before :)

so. last night at about 8pm, nelly estimated she has ~4 hours of work left.
a little past midnight, she had approximately 2 hours of work
right now, she is actually done, and waiting for the customer to approve.
in the meantime, who cares about sleep or me or anything really? 
:'(

i am starting to think there is something wrong with me. or with my life. i did mention in my previous longish entry that i get the urge to cry for no apparent reason every now and then. well, tonight it was caused by the following short paragraph in the toastmaster magazine:

Editor's Note: This article is presented for nonpartisan educational ( Read more... )

i can't think while hungry. everyone should know that ;)