This sounds like it could be a meme. I saw it on Metafilter and decided to try it out for myself. Someone posed the following question to the Onion AV Club:

What are your pop-culture rules? That is, the up-front guidelines that will prevent you from seeing/reading/listening to something, or that will guarantee that you’ll see/read/listen to it ( Read more... )

This post is especially for Bob, who's probably the only person who still reads this journal and has been looking forward to an update on resolutions for a while. This wasn't a bad year, considering I didn't bother to really consult my resolutions page since creating it last January. I made progress on all items on this list except for one.

( 2009 in review )

I've been 3^3 for a little over 12 hours now. I must say, I'm feeling pretty good in my decrepit old age. I'm trying to ignore the reality that my body is slowing down and decaying, culminating in my eventual death, and concentrating instead on the fact that I've now outlived a good number of famous people, including Galois, Keats, Tupac, and Buddy ( Read more... )

After taking a few days to settle in and recover, and catch up on a few things, I thought I'd take some time to write about my trip ( Read more... )

I wanted to make my next post about my trip (I just got back Tuesday night). But whoa, something far more important has come up...

HOLYCRAP, they're releasing a John Keats movie. And it's coming out right in time for my birthday in a couple of weeks ( Read more... )

As promised, here's a post with information about my vacation, which is now about a week away. The first half of the trip, Italy, will be done with the boyfriend; for the second half, in Spain, I'll be on my own. I'm a bit nervous, because this will be my first time in a country where I don't speak the language and I don't have anyone with me to ( Read more... )

We didn't win at the talent show. We ended up losing Best Group to the Facilities team, who did a dramatic reading of actual, ridiculous tickets that people have filed at our office (we missed their act because we had to go warm up). Unfortunately, I can't share the videos; they're only being shared internally because some of them (including ours) ( Read more... )

I spent the spring semester taking another course at NYU SCPS: the next class in the Java certification program, Java I. This time around, I had the unfortunate experience of having probably the worst teacher in my life ( Read more... )

Since I update so infrequently, a lot tends to happen in between entries. For now, I'll just pick one thing to write about at a time ( Read more... )

One of my resolutions for this year is to make my way through a variety of books that, in the past few years, I've either 1) bought and not read, 2) started and not finished, or 3) was lent and never started/finished. So far, I've made it through only one of these, The Audacity of Hope, which I actually started at the end of last year ( Read more... )