From what we can tell, we had lightning strike in our apartment complex last night.  We couldn't find where it had struck, though (it was just incredibly loud, and rumbled for a good 30 seconds, and set all of the car alarms off), so perhaps it was in next complex over.

It was awesome, though.

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/07/31/nyregion/31mosque.html
Since there's a good chance at least a few of you can't (or won't) go read the article, the gist of it is that there's a proposed Mosque/cultural center to be built on ground zero (i.e. where the twin towers once stood).

I don't think it's a good idea. That's not ( Read more... )

I would like to note here that I like steampunk.  I like the stories behind the outfits, I like the tales in books and movies and more.  I love the victorianesque clothes.

I don't much care for the snobbery that I see about the subculture sometimes.  Or in Lolita (not the Nabokov type, people).  Or in SCA.  Or in just about any freaking subgroup.

It' ( Read more... )

I feel rather guilty about wanting stupid amounts of gifts, and maybe just a little more formality in this wedding thing than I do most of the time.  And at the same time, I'd rather have friends help out with a lot of things than give gifts, because I can actually use help pulling this thing off at a fairly small cost rather than have piles of ( Read more... )

I was reading through my friends list and stumbled across a link to Eliezer S. Yudkowsky's story "Non-Player Character."  The story's great, but it was these lines that really stood out:

"Do you love her?”

I reached out my fingers for the keyboard, then withdrew them. For some reason I felt impelled to give an honest answer. Did I love Janey? We ( Read more... )

Possibly one of the most awesome things I've stumbled across on the internet: http://phylogame.org/.

This may be the third thing in a week that makes me want to be a wildlife photographer.

I'm looking to expand my knowledge of webcomics.

Comics I currently read on at least a part time basis:
Least I Could Do -- Ryan Sohmer and Lar Desouza
Looking for Group -- Ryan Sohmer and Lar Desouza
Digger -- Ursula Vernon
Girl Genius -- Phil and Kaja Foglio
Girls with Slingshots -- Danielle Corsetto
Questionable Content -- J. Jaques
Dominic Deegan -- ( Read more... )

to do this.

I need to work on being less judgemental.  It's a failing I've always had, and one that I haven't been very successful at rooting out.  Being angry doesn't excuse being cruel.

Every time someone tells me that things are on Eastern Time, and therefore two hours ahead of us (or of any other time zone changes, really), I think of 9/11, because walking into my 8am class and hearing that two hours ago, at 8 some odd am EST someone had flown an airplane into one of the Twin Towers.  It was the first time that I actually ( Read more... )