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What does this say about my Robot Chicken viewing habits...?
Last night, I had a dream that managed to combine roller derby with Star Wars. -
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Since labor unions are the hot topic in the news, I found it fitting to bring up that today is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
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New friend at work
Last week, I stopped at PetCo on my lunch break to pick up some algae pellets for Cthulhu, and made an impulse buy - a brilliantly colored blue betta fish ( Read more... ) -
Mmm.... pi
It is now 3.14 1:59.
Happy Pi Day, everyone! -
Today is so fired.
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Table Francais, Part Deux
I went back to the French language group at the Spoon, last night. I think I did a little better with my expressive language, but I still fear I am butchering it. I'm so much better at receptive language. I can listen to conversations or read things and grok it, but when I try to speak, it's as if all of that near-fluency I had about 12 years ( Read more... ) -
Tuesday of oddities
Yesterday, I went to lunch at Fazoli's with a coworker. I got the spaghetti with meat sauce, and got my drink for 50 cents because of my latent knowledge of the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (Fazoli's has a daily trivia question ( Read more... ) -
Not cool, LJ
These mini banner announcements are one thing if they're going to announce a planned down-time. But plastering them across paid accounts to advertise your latest "LJ Games"? If I had even the slightest motivation to play those games, it would have been lost right there.
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I just made a phone call to... THE FUTURE!!!
It was to New Zealand, where it is already nearly 10:30 tomorrow morning.
(Honestly, you'd think that I'd be over the thrill of dialing somewhere that's Tomorrow, already, but no.)