Does anyone reading my LJ have a Dreamwidth invite code they'd be willing to give out? I've found a few communities on DW that I'd really like to join... but of course, I can't actually post to them with OpenID.

Thanks to telegramsam for the invite!

I know, I know, I'm a couple days late with this, but anyway... as a former spelling bee geek (it's been 12 years, believe it or not), I have to post this ( Read more... )

I was just checking up on Facebook, and this ad turned up on the margin:


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In case you're wondering what I ended up with for Christmas:

• From my parents:
  • A 32" flat-screen HDTV. Niiice. And yes, it does have an SVGA port to plug in my MacBook, as well as two HDMI ports.
  • Wii Fit. Yes, they actually managed to find a copy. (And wow, I'm a good bit out of shape...looks like I needed this even more than I thought!)
  • A ( Read more... )

So I was at the ATM today, wanting to withdraw $20 for a quick lunch. I went up to the ATM, inserted my card, and, as usual, saw the following screen.


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First of all, if you're not familiar with what a garden path sentence is, go read the Wikipedia article on them.

Now that that's out of the way... this was an actual headline in today's issue of USA Today (though interestingly, it was reworded in the web version), of which I've reproduced the spacing exactly as it appeared in the paper:

Obama's ( Read more... )

Now that the entirety of Google's Android phone OS has finally been released under the Apache license, I have modified the Droid Sans Mono font so as to include a more easily distinguishable zero, for the benefit of my fellow programmers. I thought it was a great-looking font for the most part, but the vague distinction between 0 and O simply wasn ( Read more... )

This is why I should not be allowed to buy action figures at Anime Weekend Atlanta:


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I'm about to be heading off to Anime Weekend Atlanta. I won't be bringing my computer with me, and probably won't be getting online again at all till late Sunday afternoon. (These conventions literally do go on all day, for those who've never been to one.)

In the meantime, check my Twitter profile for status updates.

Since I seem to do an awful lot of random musing on LJ lately, more than I do wordplay, I got rid of the "was it a car or a cat I saw?" icon and replaced it with this one.

Yes, I am a bit obsessed with a certain Azumanga Daioh character, thank you ( Read more... )