I have to admit that when I first signed up for Twitter, I didn't think I would stick with it. With most web-based services, I'll try it for a few days or even a week or two, then it will just fade out of my short-term memory. It's not that I consciously stop using a service, more often it'll just slip out of my daily online-routine, and will ( Read more... )

I dare *anyone* to find a more bizarre mating method than the anglerfish - http://is.gd/1aXj

Willow: Ari, what do you want to play at Gaia's* house today?

Kilari: Boys.

Willow: "Boys" isn't a game.

Kilari: Yes they are!

* - Gaia is Willow and Ari's grandmother

I'm going down to Dallas this sunday, and coming back friday. Josh Viney is going with me ( Read more... )

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I really miss having a desk.

One of the reasons I got a laptop was so that I wouldn't be shackled to the desk. lindensidhe took that to mean I didn't need a desk at all, so I'm stuck using my computer at the kitchen table every night ( Read more... )

I heard on the radio this morning that the Janesville GM plant will be closed before 2010.

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This is huge. GM is a big part of Janesville, and this is going to hurt the city. Currently, there are about 2800 people employed by GM in Janesville. This is after several layoffs and the elimination of the 2nd shift not too long ago ( Read more... )

I'm hoping to get a new telescope in the near future. I once had one when I was a teenager, but it was a piddly, crappy thing that was difficult to align.

I'm hoping to get a more powerful one, hopefully computer-controlled.

I've always been enamored by the stars, and ever since I read about the Eagle Nebula, I've been awestruck by the vastness ( Read more... )

lindensidhe's brother's girlfriend had won a pack of discounted admissions for a comedy club in Milwaukee, and they invited us to come along. It was a good time. I'd never been to a live stand-up comedy show before, and I enjoyed myself quite a bit. The comics were very funny but the drinks were expensive ( Read more... )

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