I want a globe depicting the planet in approximate "real colours" as photographed from space (search: earth photo space - good results), or in colours representative of climate. Earth just doesn't look as green as I think it should? Black and white globes - one each earth & water white-black reversed, so I can easily make photographic illustrations ( Read more... )

Listening to NPR.. egg & wasabi sandwich. You know I want to listen to the uplifting feminist message of our guest, but she keeps using phrases that grate. She made a humorous point on peace in the holy land, and that was that. The orphanage downstairs is gone, it's eerily quiet, and cold. I think they turned off their heat, or turned it down, when ( Read more... )

Here is a habit ( Read more... )

Things always have to come apart right around midterm-time. I hate to have to play the cut-my-losses game, again... But? Better than any number of other things I shouldn't be cutting. How to explain this to the folks, then. $#!+. I am way too fragile at this moment, lonely, silent, isolated. This is not good.

Part of me can't help but love a teacher who uses phrases like "mutant enclave" as descriptions, and brings that Voltaire quote to mind... "I disagree with every word you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it." Unfortunately, I do not trust him to hold this same philosophy. He seems to believe that everything that has ever been ( Read more... )

Theobro.com is my new favorite website. Don't think I can actually read what it says. The translation software does not extend to .gif or flash animations, yet... the sweet life ...I don't know. The prospering of businesses and industries, as a verb. Diet of Worms. Gutenberg ( Read more... )

There's a vampire hunter! He shoots you with a crossbow bolt for 30 damage, and runs to the north ( Read more... )

Let me tell you about the kind of crap I don't need to deal with when I'm trying to study for my history test. This thing happens at noon, and I am not so confident about the late-eighteenth-century part. She said it wasn't THAT important, but as musch time as we spent there, clearly I have to be able to say something about it in one of the three ( Read more... )

I don't want to wear clothes. It's like I'm arguing with myself, and one side is noncommittal about this adulthood, and the other is a screaming two-year-old, "No, no, no, NO! I don't wanna wear clothes! YOU CAN"T MAKE ME ( Read more... )

If quadratic equations don't make any g*dd*mn*d sense anyway, what with everything equalling zero all the time and two right answers, why does there also have to be the possibility that there is only one right answer?!

I'm dreaming of a math class where the concepts were taught through hands-on computer rendering, some vector mapping something or ( Read more... )