Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Makes sense, considering I learned to speak the language in New York ^^

Yoinked from cyfisInstructions: Take this list of authors, remove those whose efforts do not grace your shelves, and bring the list up to ten by adding some more that do. New paragraph indicates newly-added authors ( Read more... )

Had a particularly productive couple of days at work. Yesterday I managed to figure out what was causing the XWin problems on three of my cluster machines for the past couple of months and after several hours of googling on my hunch finally managed to get everything back to normal. And today I plumbed the depths of the atrociously poorly coded ( Read more... )

Haven't LJed in ages, partially because I didn't have much to write about and partially because I had better things (read WoW and anime) to do with my time than write about nothing. ^^ In short, I've reached lv53 with my Rogue in WoW, gotten completely obsessed with the Air anime, as a consequence gotten re-obsessed yet again with the Air game, ( Read more... )

Off to New York for New Year's. Should be back on the 2nd.

Ever get the feeling that the universe hates you? This whole trip attempt has been subject to Murphy's Law from the get go, culminating last night. First, I fail to find tickets for the days I wanted, and ended up getting a round trip starting on Dec 24 and ending on Jan 1, which was about the shortest amount of time that would be worthwhile. Then ( Read more... )

So in accordance with Murphy's Second Law of Vacations, I woke up today to a spinning head, weak body, and an unstoppable desire to vomit. Took my temperature after the conversation with the porcelain god, only to find that I was running a fever of 37.4C. I'm not sure if it's food poisoning or, gods forbid, stomach flu, but it looks like this is ( Read more... )

Looks like between the sudden cold snap and me getting little sleep due to work and Warcraft, I've managed to develop a cold of some sort. At the very least I've been feeling kind of dizzy and braindead all day long. I guess I should be happy that I'm getting this now, with 9 days to burn through it before my flight to Switzerland is due, rather ( Read more... )

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Yep, I turned 27 today. It's also the one-year anniversary of my starting at my current job. Pretty amazed just how quickly the year flew by, though I guess it's an expected effect of keeping busy and on a regular schedule. While I'll save the year-long retrospective for the New Year's post, I will say that politics aside, it's been a pretty ( Read more... )