So I couldn't possibly let the new Muse album go by without reviewing it.

MUSE
The Resistance (2009 ( Read more... )

From my FB note (only with better-looking text):
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Cost of gas:

$486.93

Gas used:

176.091 gallons

Distance traveled:

6987.7 miles

Highest gas prices:1. Arcata, CA @ $3.199/g ( Read more... )

So I need to compile a list of states and parks I'm tentatively visiting this summer so I can get free maps from AAA. I know I write way too much about my trip but I'm too excited and this will help me organize it a bit ( Read more... )

What I'm cooking up tonight.

Roasted Red Pepper Hummus:
-roasted red peppers
-lemon juice

Chicken Florentine Casserole:
-garlic
-lemon juice
-broccoli
-spinach

Pat's Baked Beans:
-pinto beans
-great Northern beans
-pink beans
-red kidney beans
-garbanzo beans

The last dinner I will be cooking in Berkeley.
And somehow I gotta feed 12 people.


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it's late y'all

Just four finals. That's it.

ED: final exam
NES: 10 page paper, probably will write on children in Iranian film and fiction
GWS: 6-7 page paper, not long at all, topic is pretty open to various responses
Chem: 7 page paper, probably will write on recent improvements in converting biomass into fuels using bacteria's machinery as a ( Read more... )

I really liked one of the recent Candorville comic strips. Our almost-daily school newspaper The Daily Californian (Daily Cal) has a couple comics at the end and one of them is usually Candorville, drawn by Darrin Bell. The first three (of four) frames are funny ( Read more... )

In Africa, the US doesn't like Zimbabwe very much and they have the world's highest inflation rate.

In Latin America, the US's biggest enemy is Venezuela and they have the region's highest inflation rate.

In the Middle East, Iran seems to be America's "biggest threat" and they, too, have the region's highest inflation rate.


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"They Don't Want Music" by Black Eyed Peas, off their 2005 album Monkey Business:

They don't want music, they don't know how to use it
All they want is boom, boom, boom, boom

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"Boom Boom Pow" by Black Eyed Peas, the lead single off their upcoming 2009 album The E.N.D.I’m so 3008 ( Read more... )

I'm going to Home Depot and this is my shopping list:

-diatomaceous earth
-spool of thread
-twine or string
-tape

I hope Home Depot is cheaper than ACE Hardware because ACE is expensive.


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