zomg mystery hunt!

i was entirely unaware that the illuminati trilogy is available online in a searchable html format. perhaps this will allay my jonesing for a paper copy until i really truly do have funds and/or stumble across a bookstore that carries it (used, please!) if you don't know why you should read it, i suggest you keep 'waring the fnords ( Read more... )

amazing long shot, i know: the problems that took down my windows box are still here, apparently, and appear related to zonealarm, a third-party firewall i use. when i try to update it, it yells at me for having a bad Windows image, and perhaps failing to find some .dll somewhere (vsutil.dll, access denied?). it also breaks when i try to uninstall ( Read more... )

whoa... do we seriously have a professor hunger-striking for racial equality at MIT? i am so boggled right now. choice quote: "I will either see the Provost resign and my hard-earned tenure granted at MIT, or I will die defiantly right outside his office." i. just. is this where i get glad this hasn't hit campus-wide email yet, and rethink, yet ( Read more... )

highly recommended trick of the day: get a cup of hot cider, and watch the convection currents pull apple-pulp bits up to the surface! it's way neat, and tasty too, with or without rum (my newly-discovered drink to push on unsuspecting victims, now that it's not summer and mojitos would be silly ( Read more... )

apparently i'm still capable of churning out a coherent essay covering two major points in two hours; considering i haven't tested this ability hardcore since high school, and i totally failed at studying apart from 'reread the essay prompt on the walk home last night and think about it some more', i think i win. (at least i managed to not short ( Read more... )

my entire music collection is currently on shuffle. it managed, just now, to convince my distracted brain of the existence of a song about Pyrex.

(apparently, Tori Amos is actually quite interested in pirates, but to quote myself, quoted in slander*, 'Context is for pussies ( Read more... )

everything i have to say is boring; perhaps that's the sugar talking (i'm hopped up on candy, then cookie, now sprite to stay up while laundry goes.). i'm afraid to write and submit a cover letter for the uberdream job i finally got the guts to apply to yesterday, b/c if i don't apply then they can't reject me. (i think my brain is broken, but it ( Read more... )

( in lieu of an actual update, end-of-year meme )

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