I am, in fact, the kind of person who despises professional sports in their current form, and the Super Bowl in particular. However, most of the time I keep a lid on it in order to be civil. Yesterday was reasonably nice, and I was blissfully working on other things without being forced to think about overpaid 'roid-head modern gladiators ( Read more... )

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I finally got that guitar back. It lived in the garage for years, I played it (badly), restored it (badly), broke it (not very badly), and finally sent it off to a pro to be fixed. I couldn't bear to give that guitar up. It's back in my hands now, and better than ever. It's saying - what are you gonna play that's worth having your hands on ( Read more... )

krinndnz :All right, I need a nerd verdict. Would you allow "Wookiee" in Scrabble? Why or why not? If you'd allow it, would you allow "Kashyyyk" or "Shyriiwook" ?
burritoalpastor :This question is founded on faulty assumptions, namely, that I would ever, ever, ever play Scrabble. I fucking hate Scrabble. You may not know this about me, but I believe Scrabble to be one ( Read more... )

So now we've got Na'vi Otherkin - and the obligatory bashing. Unoriginal. Pathetic. Insane ( Read more... )

So I hear that there was a setback for the Democratic party lately. I barely know the big picture, and I really don't care about the details at this point. What happened was, my current standpoint got vindicated again. That standpoint is that I am actively not paying attention to micro-level political maneuvering because the big-picture ( Read more... )

I've caught flickers of news from the ongoing Proposition 8 trial, and what I see makes me smirk. I'm cautiously optimistic about the trial as a whole. Part of this is because the anti-equality side is doing their usual pompous, stuck-up, snot-nosed American bullcrap that makes me want to go into full vulgarian mode. I won't - but I will mock ( Read more... )

Well. 2009. I survived that. Because of when my birthday falls, this is about where I do year-end wrapups, personally. Right now, I'm interested in what I thought was important this time last yearFinancial stability! Always a thing to think about. I completely bombed out on that. I didn't get a real job, and I moved back in with my parents ( Read more... )

Michael Lewis has been back in the news - around this time last year, he had an excellent article in Portfolio called "The End,", which spawned a solid discussion on bradhicks's journal, and in a few months we'll be looking at "The Big Short," his examination of the current depression. When I saw Liar's Poker, his excellent 1989 account of his time as a ( Read more... )

What helps you go to sleep?

Normally, it takes me a while to get to sleep. That bothers me. Like anyone else, I waste time, but time spent lying in bed trying to sleep feels fiercely and viciously wasted, because the number one thing I think about is - "I'm not particularly tired, I could be doing something." Not necessarily something ( Read more... )

Recently I've been reading a lot of Nathan Bowers. It's interesting, opinionated work that makes me look at things I'd been looking through. His most recent post is Don't Ship Broken, which isn't an in-depth post, but it's relevant to me right now. I've been working with Windows XP a lot in school. Part of this is because I'm on my way to the ( Read more... )