I don't think I've ever been mentioned in a newspaper before. And now I'm in three! Sweet! You'd think I was a mass-murderer or something, but no, all I did was write a silly little essay about Spider-Man.

Omaha World Herald

Calgary Herald

Saskatoon Star Phoenix (basically a truncated version of the article from the Calgary paper)

Last night, at a sneak preview in Silver Spring, MD, I saw...

Snakes on a Plane!!!

And I can assure you: it's everything it promises to be. It's so terrible it's fantastic. I want to say so much, but I'll only end up giving things away, and who needs that? So, to you zeronobus, irresistiblyred, and dropsofme, go forth knowing that all is well!!

I bought a laptop about a year ago. Recently, it's been overheating pretty quickly (which it never did before), so I took to propping it up. This evening, thinking that, as I've found cat fur between the keys, perhaps some had found its way into the ventilation system, I investigated the matter. Stopping short of removing the casing on the laptop, ( Read more... )

My cat, Chicklet, has a new friend, who has taken to feeding outside my apartment. Chicklet just sits at the window and watches him (not making the noises she makes when she watches the birdies, whose pretty little heads she wants to eat). When he inevitably hops away, she looks at me, quite sadly, and mews. I reassure her that the little bunny ( Read more... )

irresistiblyred posted the doodle I did for her volleyball team, so I thought I'd follow up with some of the other little doodles I've done recently, for various projects (and some just for fun):

The Fatman Thought Experiment (no, really!)

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Okay, here are some disorders that plague my life:

Rheumatoid Arthritis -- Chronic and (it needs to be pointed out) symmetrical. This is, as most of you probably know, a painful inflammation of the joints. It's actually an immunity issue that causes the inflammation, and can go on to affect organs. This only flares up now and again, and usually it ( Read more... )

Ooh! Look! I'm at the top of the list!

http://www.oed.com/bbcwords/acknowledge.html Take that, Websters!

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So, further to my earlier entry -- I'm doing some reading for my seminar on Immanuel Kant. Specifically, we're dealing with assisted suicide and euthanasia. Anyway, I hit this passage:

"Kamm speaks of "euthanizing a cat to stop its pain." Now, I have owned several cats, some of which have been in pain on occasion, and two of which were eventually ( Read more... )

I just got an e-mail from my mom. My parents' cat has been getting sick -- basically throwing up everything he ate, and was starving to death, so they put him down. I'm really sad about it. I mean, he was old (my brother brought him home from university in about 1992, I think), but that's probably why I miss him. I have so many memories of him. ( Read more... )