I really hope The Avengers movie is better than the trailers.

Is there any character at the end of A Dance with Dragons who is not suicidal? I mean, does anything good happen to anyone that doesn't turn to shit?

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Last night I had a GMAT nightmare, sex dream, with scary ghosts.

... welcome to my brain.

I heard once that you should always ask a customer service person how they're doing, even if you're calling with something needing to be done. While I don't always ask how a person is doing, I try to be very polite and engaging. The speaker said they're so used to irate people that a nice customer always surprises them and they're far more helpful.

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Predators (2010) was surprisingly good. I haven't seen Adrien Brody in much, just The Village where I hated him and The Jacket where I hate Keira Knightley. I always intend to watch The Pianist but I'm not a great fan of dramatic movies, I usually watch movies for escapism, not heart-wrench.

Hence, Predators while catching up on work for daddy. It ( Read more... )

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If/when you read magazines, do you pick and choose articles, or read all of them?

I have the latest copy of Wired and I don't know if I should read all of them or just some of them. Time is... limited, remember, I have a full-time job, part-time grad school, and an actual life.

So far the biggest problem of having an eReader to load books I want to read is that I have access to books I want to read. If I were Evie in Out of this World and could stop time this wouldn't be an issue, but there are only 168 hours in a week, and hopefully I'm sleeping for about 50 of them. This leaves me with 138 hours to work, go to class, do ( Read more... )

There's something infinitely satisfying about reading cyberpunk on an eReader.

For the past couple of months I've been mentally flirting with the tablet/eReader debate, and now it's coming to a head.

Mid-July I came very very close to buying an iPad for some retail therapy. When I announced I really wanted an iPad for the Kindle and iBook apps, libberroo countered with a "buy a Kindle, then." The past week or so I've more seriously ( Read more... )