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Halloween
Heh... the lady at the cash register at the Broad Cafe was wondering if my blue shoes, turquoise socks, and giant ostrich on my shirt were part of a Halloween costume. Nope... that's just how I dress normally. :) -
Halloween costume plans: Typing of the Dead
For the various Halloween parties I'm attending tonight, I'm planning on dressing up as one of the zombie-fighting keyboard-equipped agents from The Typing of the Dead:
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CiteULike
For the purposes of keeping track of my academic papers, I've switched over from JabRef to CiteULike. For those of you unfamiliar with CiteULike, it applies del.icio.us-style social bookmaring to scholarly research. If you click on a little bookmarklet while you're reading an interesting paper, it adds it to your library, and (depending on the ( Read more... ) -
birthdays
I just realized that for the first 18 years of my life, I'd celebrated my birthday every single year. However, in the 6 years since then, unless I'm miscounting, I've only had a single birthday party.
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peculiar birthday gifts
In advance of my impending birthday, I got a package from my mom today. Upon opening the package, I discovered that it contained a 3-CD "Non-stop Disco Dance Mix." I'm very confused ( Read more... ) -
Monster laptop around the town
This is pretty fun... a reviewer with LAPTOP magazine takes a gigantic 20-inch 18-pound Dell "laptop" around Manhattan, reporting on people's reactions:
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After some practicing yesterday, I can now dance as a follow in lindy hop! Sort of. -
stepleton wins
Wow... stepleton used a trio of NeXTcubes as the base of his coffee table:
http://stepleton.livejournal.com/27145.html
In bow down in geek deference in the general direction of his apartment.
