Virgo Horoscope for week of September 28, 2006

Jeff Greenwald ( www.ethicaltraveler.com) has traveled extensively all over the planet for the last quarter of a century. "Do the citizens of the world revile us Americans more each year?" I asked him. He said that while millions upon millions have come to despise the U.S. government, most don't ( Read more... )

Say what you will about Microsoft, it has some great internal promotional posters.

( Weird Al may not be a nerdcore artist, but he does dabble in it from time to time. )

Someone on my floor had this poster on his hall window. Given how many of my friends like V for Vendetta, I figured that they would get a kick out of this.

The later half of last week was pretty busy for me. Had to inventory a bunch of stuff to ship out to India. I also had to set up twenty-five machines in the lab. Unfortunately on Monday I accidently blew one of them up. Well, blew up its power supply anyway. There was a flash of light, a loud "pop!", and the scent of smoke. I wonder what the ( Read more... )

My Personality

Neuroticism

29
Extraversion

8
Openness To Experience

32
Agreeableness

73
Conscientiousness

68

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So I was going back over the Cortana Letters today. For those who do not know, the Cortana Letters were a sequence of emails sent from Bungie to the Marathon's Story website back in 1999, before Halo had been announced. There was much speculation on what these strange letters from an enigmatic entity calling itself "Cortana" were all about. Of ( Read more... )

So I started wearing my tie again. I can feel it around my neck now, so tight I have little room to move my throat when I breath. It is uncomfortable, sure, but it is a familiar discomfort, and thus oddly comforting. It is a masochistic reminder that I, like this tie, need to keep tight control over myself ( Read more... )

If there are one or more people on your friends list that makes your world a better place, just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not,) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

I bought a sketch book yesterday. I had been meaning to for years, but for some reason only stores that specialize in art carry them. In any case, now I can actually draw stuff when the urge hits me, yay ( Read more... )