I went to an Oriental food store with my mom today, after class let out ( Read more... )

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I'm procrastinating.

Took the Political Spectrum Quiz.  I'm not at all surprised by the results.

You are a left moderate social libertarian.
Left: 5.98, Libertarian: 1.79
 
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My brother and I went out and bought Scribblenauts.  He contributed ten dollars to that, I paid the rest.  My little brother is always broke, or nearly.  He's got basically no savings.  I've got... well, I don't know exactly, but there's something to the tune of three thousand in my savings account, and around five hundred in a debit account that I ( Read more... )

There's an article here about blind mountain bikers who get around using human echolocation.  That is awesome.  Here's the passage that interested me the most.

The interference patterns used for echolocation are usually too subtle to be consciously heard. This highlights one of the most amazing aspects of echolocation: It’s rarely experienced as ( Read more... )

Looking through a retrospective on Star Wars games, I found that this narrator pronounces Thrawn's full name (Mitth'raw'nuruodo) as "Mitthraw-nuru-odo".  Interesting.

When I was a little kid, mosquito bites always led to gigantic red welts, hard and hot to the touch.  They'd linger for weeks, itch constantly, ache, and often refuse to respond to ( Read more... )

I'm going to Eastern Michigan University.  Damn it.  I've already learned to dislike the school, largely because it's big and can't get anything done in a timely fashion.


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Been a while since I tried a meme.

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We just got back from a cruise.  Boarded in Seattle, went to Alaska, fortunately did not hear anything from their previous governor.  I bought a tiny human skull carved from caribou bone!  It's so awesome.  Putting it on any surface instantly changes the ambiance.  I never got the appeal of skulls as decorative objects before I saw it.

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That was an unhappy dream.  But I was only one combat cyborg and assistant in the middle of hundreds of partying vampires.  I couldn't have saved the baby vultures.

...Yes, seriously, I dreamed about that.
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