My grandfather Dimitri Korol passed away today, oddly enough at the exact same time I was recounting his life story. Born in the Ukraine, he was captured by German troops in WWII, and moved to a slave labor camp in Frankfurt. He moved his family from Germany to the US in 1956, without speaking a word of English and $17 in his pocket. He lived a ( Read more... )

Hello, old friend. I watched The Social Network for the 2nd time as part of an Oscar Movie marathon at the AMC, and saw Mark Zuckerberg blogging about his relationship woes. According to the timeline, his bitching took place in 2004, years after I had already become a Livejournal junkie ( Read more... )

I haven't been posting much, so here's something substantive, like a meme ( Read more... )

The new MetallicA album being so absolutely fucking amazing makes up for not getting very many b-day presents. It's exactly the album they needed to make. Thank you, Rick Rubin, for saving them.

I bent one of my contacts in half yesterday, and it doesn't fit in my eye right. I'm wearing glasses and I'm miserable.

Yay, after roughly 5 years with no cable, I signed up for cable TV (actually AT&T's U-verse) today. DVR here I come!!

What kind of a world do we live in where Internet Explorer is the fastest browser?

So last weekend (technically two weekends ago now) I knew I was skimming close to the low end of my bank account, but that I would get paid by direct deposit on monday, and all would be good. And I had $40 to last two days, and anything excess could just go on my credit card. Long story short I was running low on gas, and got halfway through my ( Read more... )

Someone recently clued me into A Softer World. You should check it out. Some are funny, some are sad, some are morbid. Most are worth checking out.

Like this one.

Bought a new component video cable for my DVD player/TV. Let's hope this one has better shielding and less interference than my current one ( Read more... )