This is a totally non-facetious question aimed mostly at those pagan/wiccans of you out there - but anyone should feel free to answer it.

What is magic? What makes something magic? The most base definition that I can think of is -

Using your will to affect the universe in a controlled manner.

But that applies to everything, brushing your teeth ( Read more... )

I like families and I vote

A vote to Approve Referendum 71
is a vote to Retain Washington State's Domestic Partner Law.

So I'm voting to Approve.
This was confusing to me at first. Not long ago I was hoping that R71 wouldn't have enough signatures to get on the ballot - because I was hoping that over 5000 families, families that live in every ( Read more... )

First the good thing, well it's kind of a good things if that makes any sense. Just discovered Pomplamoose on youtube. Both members of Pomplamoose has their own youtube channel as well. I've just started poking through their stuff but I like!

Then, I saw a poster for this (possibly not safe for work) outside the gym in the building where I work ( Read more... )

I have been getting up at Five Freaking AM for the last month or so in order to have time to get on the tread mill in the morning in the hopes of rejuvenating my weight loss (I'm not gaining but I am plateaued). Logically this means that I should go to bed earlier if I wish to get the same amount of sleep. Going to bed earlier is harder than I  ( Read more... )

Official temperature outside 98.9 degrees F.

Me sitting in my cube wearing a sweater with a blanket on my lap.

I'm all for AC but really

I only ever use my number pad for ... you guessed it .. NUMBERS. Why then does it sometimes boot up with the numbers lock off? Also is there some way I can turn the num lock button off - so that I can't miss the 7 hit the num lock and all of a sudden start doing things I don't mean to?

I'm contemplating setting num lock on then ripping the key out ( Read more... )

I keep getting old videos in my YouTube subscriptions. Is there a good way to get them out of my subscription inbox? The best way I've figured out so far is to start watching them then switch back to the inbox.

We're at the good will looking for costume material for Steamcon when I notice the rack of CDs. So I abandoned my honey to fend for herself in the hat section while I perused. There were also a bunch of Xbox games of which I had 6 picked out but then decided that the reason I don't play the Wii is that I don't have time not 'cause I don't have ( Read more... )

I was just going to post about how I didn't very much like Quantum of Solace - which I thought I would like and did very much like Hancock which I thought I wouldn't like and how expectation plays a huge part in how good you think something is ... then ( Read more... )

So we all know that I'm hopelessly behind the times. Case in point I just now saw Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Quite wonderful. I want the cd.

I tried to watch it when it came out but iTunes is such an awful hunk of software that I just couldn't.