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Heeeey you guys.

Tonight (Wednesday 23 May) on the History Channel at 10 pm EDT is an episode of Modern Marvels. In this episode is a ~30 second clip filmed at the lab in which I work. I appear in a non-speaking role ("guy opening CIP") for about 3 seconds.

It's my national television debut!

So, um, watch it, I guess.

An Open Letter to the Reverend Jerry Falwell

Dear Jerry,

Good riddance you fat, bigoted bastard ( Read more... )

Nick sent me this cool link a few weeks ago. And now I'd like to show you my badges.
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I laid back in the chair, which hummed and shifted under the direction of the nurse. She wore a silver earring which curved around the entirety of her right ear. Her demeanor was easygoing, mine obedient. I was given the "obligatory bib". She rubbed a numbing paste onto my gums. We then got down to business ( Read more... )

Friends only from now on. I'll leave my archive up, if only because it would be a bitch to edit.

I went through my friends list and might have deleted you.

Probably nothing personal. Message if you particularly care.

If you're new, hello. Leave a message.

Now then. Back to business.

Passed to me by chamberk...

01) Total number of music files on my computer:
3395 according to iTunes. I'd venture there are a dozen or so loners hidden somewhere.

02) The last CD I bought was...
Yesterday I purchased Bach: The Cello Suites by Yo-Yo Ma from iTMS, financed in part by a birthday gift certificate (Thanks Erik!). The last physical CD I ( Read more... )

Today is Kimberly's 10th birthday.

In the early morning of April 5th, 1995, I was lying in my bed with a flashlight, reading a collection of Garfield comics. The door to my room was open, and my parents' room was down the hall. There was a night-light in my room, as well as one in the middle of the hall way, and there was the glow of my parent's ( Read more... )

At tonight's Erato meeting we all brought a poem of our own, typed and without overt indications of author. These were shuffled among the few of us, and we read the poem in our hands and then tried to figure out who wrote it. It was fun. I don't generally sit around and write poems in my spare time, so I had to create one specifically for this ( Read more... )

Mitch Hedberg is dead.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/breaking_news/11278099.htm

Shit.

EDIT: Here's a better link (lots of quotes! Scroll down): http://