I am the destroyer of THUMBS!

Actually, I think it was an index finger, but regardless, the lesson was learned today that rules-less faux sword fighting is bad for fingers when I smacked cybervirus' finger with a boffing stick. I lacked control. I am ashamed. ::loses face:: Needless to say, swelling and emergency room hijinks ensued. Fortunately, it ( Read more... )

You know, as a kid, all my toys and half my clothes were hand me downs cause that's what people did in po' third world countries... and I used to kinda resent that when reminiscing of youth with my friends cause I would hear tell of them getting brand new swag and clothes that didn't used to belong to your older brother and new fangled gadgets on ( Read more... )

Dudes, what is it with stiff, boring, uninteresting, (scary in some cases,) ex presidential candidates who aren't running for office anymore and suddenly become lively and interesting? First there was Bob Dole making large amounts of funny after getting out of politics and now Al Gore gives a heartfelt rousing nigh-presidential speech when he's ( Read more... )

What I, Robot needed to do was change the title and say that they just grabbed a few concepts from Asimov instead of giving it the name and the obvious connnection, cause then everything'd be peach and everyone can enjoy it in peace ( Read more... )

I just saw the preview for the new Resident Evil movie. I sensed few zombies and a great potential for sucking. This saddens me. Of course, with my new I'm-a-po'-student-again budget worked out, I should get out to the movies about once every never.

What never?

No, never!

What never?

Well, hardly Ever!
(He's hardly ever sick at SEEEEAAAA

The repeated bludgeonings of modern microeconomic realities and the ceaseless nodding of heads by others has forced me to concede that $550-$600 is indeed pretty damn cheap for a room in the San Francisco area. Oh large yet necessary expenditures, how I dislike thee with a varying degree of passion ( Read more... )

Years of repeatedly giving to The Salvation Army/The Girl Scouts/Random Good Cause Here/Bums have karmically paid off in the form of a twenty dollar bill found on the street which paid for the furtherance of the Legend of Ron Burgundy. All is well in the universe ( Read more... )

So, like, while I was gone, did everyone get a gmail account ( Read more... )

The Bad: Asked my dad for some monetary supplementation for grad school so I can, you know, eat and whatnot. This is bad because my upbrining thus far has led me to believe that asking for money is the devil. A very big robot devil that is sticking you with its pitchfork repeatedly while the smaller non robot devils that run it are putting your ( Read more... )

I just paid the fees for my first semester of grad school. it hurt