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Woah!
It's 70° in Portland right now. I've exchanged my thermal underwear for sunglasses. I'm making art on my porch and pretending I don't have tons of homework due tomorrow.* Hello, world!
*Sometime over the past few months, grad school really started feeling like grad school. My fall quarter workload was smaller than I'd expected-smaller than the ( Read more... ) -
Audio free stuff
This was a little experiment I did with a free audio editing program, "Heartbeats" by the Knife, and a free bioterrorism DVD called "The Decontamination of Children." I did this instead of writing a paper. You might have to click on the little icon thingie to make the embedded music player load.
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Newzzzzz
Hi, LiveJournal world! It's been a while since I used this thing. What I want to announce right now is that I have a new hobby. Many of you know about it already because I have had tons of pamphlets and posters sent to your houses, and you may or may not have gotten pissed off about it. Anyway, the new hobby is finding and ordering free government ( Read more... ) -
Where did all the words go?
I think they're in my bed.
-Here we are! they shout almost inaudibly with what sounds like a great effort to be audible.
-I knew it! I whisper. Now what?
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-What was that?
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-Louder, please.
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I'm not sure they're in my bed anymore. If by the time my wakeup alarm goes off my thoughts are still uninf(l)ected, then I will know that the words have ( Read more... ) -
Today I went to a library sale...
and bought the awesome-est book EVER! It's filled with ineffably sweet computer imagery from 1990.
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Custom shoes!
This is way cool. Zazzle.com lets you design your own Keds, and it shows you a fancy virtual preview of what the shoes will look like from all different angles. I made these ones today:
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Phone call to a stranger
Today I missed a call from an unfamiliar Ohio number. I called it back and learned that the caller had dialed the wrong number, but I kept him on the phone and grilled him about who he was trying to reach and why. He was clearly uncomfortable with my interrogation, but he handled it politely. I found out that he was trying to reach his friend ( Read more... )
