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I am Drunk & Melancholy...
...which is pretty much the ideal headspace for writing blog posts. Went to a party tonight to hang out with my best friend from elementary school and the first couple years of junior high, which explains the first part of this equation. The second part followed logically from seeing an old friend and contemplating all the musicians I like that ( Read more... ) -
The Invasion of Iraq and the Arab Spring
While I was trying in vain to fall asleep on the bus to work this morning, I began wondering- would the Arab Spring have still occurred if the United States had not invaded Iraq, and if so, what would it have looked like? I don't think I've seen that question asked anywhere, and I think it's a counterfactual worth considering. And as I am an ( Read more... ) -
Twitter Spam
Look, I'm attempting to blog again! But I'm blogging about Twitter, the very thing that has kept me away from LiveJournal all these many months. It's a conundrum. Anyhow, this spammer dude's attempt to get me to visit some frickin' website amused me. Here then, is the conversation:
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Random Thought, Redux
Blast! My stupid Livejournal Mobile app cut off my last post! Here, then, is the new, fixed version.
In the past decade, French fries have undergone something of a renaissance- it almost seems compulsory for yuppie eateries to have some interesting twist on the French fry on their menu, whether it be sweet potato fries or double-fried fries or what ( Read more... ) -
IT Storage Room, Post-Holiday Party
I wonder if this means we get to keep all the liquor.
Also, dunno if it's evident from the photo, but there's a tangle of RJ45 cables on top of all the beer, which for some reason I find hilarious.
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Europe, Near the End
It's 10pm in Turkey right now. Tomorrow at 3:15 AM, myself and my fellow travelers will be boarding a shuttle for the airport, where we will catch a flight to Amsterdam. There, we will have a few hours to explore the city before we board a plane bound for Los Angeles. We will then be home ( Read more... ) -
Aging
I turn 30 tomorrow, so today is the last day of my 20's. I had been planning on throwing a huge party today rather than on my birthday, but the studied indifference I maintain towards my birthdays bit me in the ass, and I forgot what today was until about 6 o' clock last night. And ultimately, I think that's actually perfect- it means that I've ( Read more... ) -
Let the Right One In
So I just saw Let the Right One In, which was lots of fun. While it was as grim and bloody as one might expect from a vampire flick made by Swedes, it was also suprisingly funny and warm, probably more so than any film I've seen from Scandinavia.
Let me just preface this by saying that I've come to find vampires quite tiresome. There's a whole ( Read more... ) -
Trying to get back into LJ
So as I've stated before, Twitter has been scratching my blogging itch lately. But the 140 character limit on tweets is becoming incresingly onerous, so I have resolved to get back into LiveJournal, at least a little bit ( Read more... ) -
Randomness
So I opened my iGoogle, which displays the current headlines at the BBC website. Just as I did, someone came up to ask me a question. As I turned to deal with them, I very quickly saw the headlines for this article, and this article. Which, because I only saw them for a split second, got jumbled in my head into "Hadron Collider Kills Iraqi Civilian ( Read more... )
