At the risk of practically spamming my lj with interesting things, I just discovered how to change the web clips in my gmail screen! You should check out the screenshot on my blogspot. Especially you, Alan.

With Elizabeth's help, I've decided I want an astrolabe. She found one on eBay, but it's currently going for $3250. Here's a pic:

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Say hello to your next-generation systems!

The Nintendo Revolution:

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So tonight our OM team at dinner with an OM team from Poland. It was really fun! They say they only speak English in English class, but they were really good at it ( Read more... )

I'm trying out blogger.com because it's more respectable and run by Google. And I can publish pictures with Picasa (which gets a 4 out of 5, by the way). Oh but you have to use it in combination with Hello. But that's not a bad program either...

*Anyway,* here's my blogspot. I'll try it out for a while and take a vote over a TBA range of dates ( Read more... )

I wrote this letter to Tony in late April. My resolve wavered and I never emailed it. Here it is, for your reading pleasure:

Hi Mr. Burks ( Read more... )

Tonight gave me a headache. The first half of the talent show was alright (yay Katie that was great!), but the second half made me lose a little respect for our school. It was funny, Justin's family was sitting behind me. In the middle of the "breakdancing" act (which Hannah had told me was actually breakdancing) I turned around and said to them ( Read more... )

"Darn you George W. Bush, depleting the beach ball mines!" -Someone yesterday when we couldn't find a beach ball.

I think I may have found my favorite book.

I'm reading Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. It's amazing. It's a retelling of the Greek myth about Psyche and Cupid, from Psyche's jealous sister's point of view. That makes it sound like the sister is hard to like, but Lewis makes Orual so realistic you can't help but identify with her ( Read more... )

I was walking the dog with LB and we got to talking about Cool People. I decided to attempt to quantify Cool People a little ( Read more... )