I'm serious. This computer my mother so painstaking drug out of her closet is actually running Windows98. As some kind of cruel joke, someone put a Celeron sticker on it... which is a tragic reminder of what you lose when you're ACTUALLY using a Pentium II. With a whopping 1.5 gig hard drive and a lightening fast 333mhz

This thing belongs in a

Yay.

New things I'm excited about concerning a netbook purchase:
1. Ubuntu Netbook Remix
2. Ubuntu-Netbook Compatibility list
3. And all of the netbooks I've checked out have been on this list--yay!

Yay or nay ( Read more... )

Iran. Can't describe. My heart goes out to Iran today ( Read more... )

Can I reflect on reflection? Too postmodern ( Read more... )

You know I have a love-hate relationship with "DIY" but this game looks like a lot of fun:

Dvorak

Get a pen and draw a card. You need about forty cards for a deck, more if you have more players.

The creators of the site have a few playable decks you can make/print and start playing right away. Some of my favorites:

Turner Prize
Space Pirates ( Read more... )

Storytime. A true one ( Read more... )

Second place in the Society for Professional Journalist's Mark of Excellence Awards for Region 5.

Linky

Alas, not a national finalist, though.

I graduated. Then I drank. It was great. I'll have some photos to share once family/friends email them to me, I guess. I didn't take any of my own. My dad watched it streaming over the internet and texted me to tell me he was proud and that I looked nice. I thought I looked nervous, especially as I was the only one of the six people who were ( Read more... )

Your results:
You are Jean-Luc Picard
Jean-Luc Picard
60%
James T. Kirk (Captain)
50%
Geordi LaForge
50%
Uhura
45%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
45%
Spock
40%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)
40%
Mr. Scott
40%
Will Riker
40%
Chekov
35%
Data
35%
Worf
30%
Mr. Sulu
25%
Beverly Crusher
20%
Deanna Troi
0%

A lover of Shakespeare and other
fine ( Read more... )