Happy Friday the 13th, everyone ( Read more... )

To the person I interrupted at work the other day. Totally my bad, and it won't happen again.

Grim

“What is love? Love is when one person knows all of your secrets... your deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of which no one else in the world knows... and yet in the end, that one person does not think any less of you; even if the rest of the world does.”

I couldn't find the author of this quote, but I came across it while looking for ( Read more... )

Not so much because I'm dissatisfied with my job (though I am), or that I am not being paid enough (which I'm not), but because I'm dissatisfied with my life currently, I need to find myself a new job ( Read more... )

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Fun with science (because yes, I *am* a geek). Compiled from a monthly news digest that I receive:

Make Your Own Radar From Hot Wheels Radar Gun
http://www.edparadis.com/radar/

Make a Laser Projector
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/TinyProjector/

Make your own stun gun
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/hv/stungun/stungun.html

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When I was about 14, I came across a book of the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and I've always felt they contained a special wisdom for me.

Then, a few years ago, I found Project Gutenberg , and I fell in love with it as well. In the interim, I've read quite a bit of Emerson's writings. As I was re-reading his essay on "Experience", I came ( Read more... )

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Happy Yule to everyone!!! We've opened presents (except those we're leaving under the tree for when my Grandparents-in-law visit on Sunday). Wooohooo!!

Hope it's been fun for everyone!

Grim

Shale wanted me to put a list together for Yule, so here's a wishlist for me.

First, and foremost, the very most important thing for me for any holiday is just *having* a holiday. Let me just fly by the seat of my pants without the dreaded "we have things to do" coming up. It's the most difficult present to give me, but well, it's the best ( Read more... )