I just joined NetFlix after almost calling my cable company last night to order Starz just so I could get all the extra movies. Then I thought, I've already seen most of these movies in the theater; otherwise, I wouldn't know I want to see them. So, do I want to watch the same movie again or do I want to obsess over it the way I obsess over my ( Read more... )

I'm having a complaining day and you all get to share it ( Read more... )

After much annoyance because system admin people are stupid (!), I've got a nice new toy sitting on my desk at work. I still like Matzah Ball much more, but it's very disconcerting to go from the nice big screen of my desktop to this little 12 inch screen. Here's the "funny" story ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been a while since I last made an entry, but I'm guessing it's been a while for all of you too since no one has any entries showing up in my friends' window. Don't you love me anymore? Don't you want to tell me all about what's going on with you? Don't you want to at least respond to my e-mails/phone calls/desperate pleas for attention ( Read more... )

Ha!  The day is mine!

After 5 days of battle with my jar of gefilte fish, I finally kicked that stubborn jar's ass today.  How did I finally do it?  Well, I had a little chat with the fish that went something like this:

"You know, nobody likes you.  I'm the only one in the entire world ( Read more... )

You know, I always thought that little song about the old man who bumped his head while it was pouring and didn't wake up in the morning was really sad and inappropriate for little kids, but, this being the second day of icky weather, I think I would have much preferred to stay in bed than to come to work, unprepared for a meeting and all headachy ( Read more... )

Hey, hey! So, I just called up the people with the apartment that I'm pretending I can afford to try to get some more info out of them. When can I expect to get confirmation on a specific apartment? Do you think there will even be an available apartment? Where are the renovated, outrageously priced apartments located so I can scout some out? ( Read more... )

Today I visited this gorgeous apartment and pretended it was in my price range. Then I thought, well, I'll be done my course work by next semester, so maybe I could TA Intro to Logic again for some extra cash. So, I go to the website to see when the class is going to be held and wouldn't you know it! It's scheduled at the exact same time as the ( Read more... )

Alright, so maybe I'm in the wrong line of work, or maybe I shouldn't be expected to be a a Unix hacker just because I happen to sit at a desk with a Unix machine on it! Apparently, I am incapable of using unix in the traditional way. I'm constantly terrified that I'm going to accidently erase an entire directory of corpus work, and then, when I' ( Read more... )

This morning I wrote some prolog code all by myself! And it almost worked! What's more, my prolog partner actually liked my take on a particular problem and wanted to adopt that strategy as the one we would work on fixing. So, take that, prolog! That's right! I'm not your bitch anymore! And, pretty soon, I'll be telling *you* what to do! ( Read more... )