In the previous post, Emily very sweetly expressed her hope, when informed of the fact I had numerous bumps and such on my arm from allergy testing, that I had been afflicted with leprosy since she had never been friends with a leper. Friends are awesome.

Just got back from the allergist, and the underside of my right arm looks like a circuit board, with a matrix of transistor bumps of varying sizes traversing it. Apparently my ultimate enemies of doom are a variety of grasses, ragweed, the alternaria mold, and both kinds of dust mite. So I'm going to get allergy shots for those things and also ( Read more... )

To my friends of the class of 2005 (including D&D buddies and other hang-outs): I'll miss you guys. A lot. Come back sometimes so I can continue to shock and disgust you with my emaciated condition and degenerate humor ( Read more... )

Saw Star Wars today with Julia, and to my great relief, apart from a few nitpickings it rocked face. Gorgeous CG, fantastic lightsaber duels (better even than I and II), more Yoda, the reason why Obi-wan Kenobi is such a famous Jedi Master later on, and of course, Wookiees. The script was, in my opinion, lackluster, but I've come to except that ( Read more... )

You scored as Neutral Good. A Neutral Good person tries to do the 'goodest' thing possible. These people are willing to work with the law to accomplish their goal, but if the law is corrupt they are just as willing to tear it down. To these people, doing what's right is the most important thing, regardless of rules, customs, or laws.

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No, I'm not dead, but I am getting all my taxes from last year as a return. Yay! It's about 500 bucks. I recently saw my account balance, though. It's like I'm making dinner for an entire synagogue, and I just realized that Jesus left on vacation without telling me ( Read more... )

Here's the second interview on CBS. This time the person being interviewed is Tim Buckley of Ctrl-Alt-Del. He shares what the opposite camp might call 'the other view,' or what some of us might call 'rationality.' He correctly notes that there is always a 'scapegoat' in these kinds of issues, where it is overwhelmingly the case that people try ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm sure that at least some of you know about the gigantic battles going on between the video game industry and anti-violent-video-game advocates. Here's an article from CBS with an interview of an evidently rather prominent figure in the anti-VG camp ( Read more... )