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Taking my ball and going home
Well, LiveJournal, it's been a good run. I had a great time and you were a major part of my internet day for five solid years. But, with sadness, I announce that this post will be my last. Even though I am paid up through December. Because I planned poorly ( Read more... ) -
Droplets of yes and no in an ocean of maybe
We've boarded the home-buying train. Which is actually more like a roller coaster ( Read more... ) -
If there actually is some sort of global crisis, I will be more likely to stick with this
So what I'm going to try to do is learn one new skill every year that would still be useful after an apocalypse ( Read more... ) -
Beware, future swindlers!
I will put this gently and professionally: the other day at work I was helping a guy whom I would not describe as nice ( Read more... ) -
Heed my warnings or end up like me, Ebenezer
I went on a holiday special binge.
The perfect:
It's a Wonderful Life. After a standard youthful period of thinking this was hopeless oldie cheese, I've come to love this movie. I think being a grown up gives you a much different perspective on it, and it's a surprisingly modern movie. Plus it probably comes the closest to making me cry to any ( Read more... ) -
Probably the most focused thing I'll do for the next five days
K and I were talking about vacations the other day and established that there is a big difference between vacations and trips. A vacation is a relaxing time, a trip is something where you go somewhere and do something novel. Most of the time those two things are crossed up together, but I've shifted into thinking they are two different, and ( Read more... ) -
The important thing is that I will continue to post photoshopped pictures of scientists in hoodies
Probably going to be rearranging my web hosting and blogging very soon. It's time. For years I've used Yahoo web hosting and blogged on LJ and sort of tenuously linked the two. But both of these are in pretty sorry shape ( Read more... ) -
Nobel Prize winners hate you, Appalachian State
Montana playing in FCS semifinals this weekend, an event that has evidently gotten big enough to garner ESPN coverage. In honor of this, and UM's eventual national championship triumph, I have modified my default icon and present this picture.
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Yup
THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF ONE OF THE FEW CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS I HAVE OWNED
*December 2000. Whilst living in New Mexico, I purchase a small spiral-shaped christmas ornament made from some kind of dried grass stalk or bamboo. I'm not decorating really, but bought a number of little kitschy things from the tourist trap of Old Mesilla Village near ( Read more... ) -
Yet another complex analysis of a completely inane topic
I thought I could bang out a post on shows I've seen the most episodes of ever quickly, like, in twenty minutes over lunch. Way, way wrong. This is actually rather difficult and quite time consuming. And, there is a big question about the value of such an exercise. Unforeseen problems ( Read more... )