It's time for the annual United Way drive. As per usual, I donate money towards one of the programs that does outreach to low-income children in the area. I always do a payroll deduction, because it's way easier on much budget. What's difficult is when I have to divide how much I'm giving per pay period ( Read more... )

As of late I've been reading the new DC Comics titles, as everything got "rebooted".

But it didn't.

DC didn't want people using the word "reboot" to describe everything post-Flashpoint, because they said that it wasn't going to be a straight-up reboot ( Read more... )

Don't EVER buy anything by Belkin. I've now gone through two laptop cooling pads that just randomly died - the first died after one week, the second one died five months later. Their routers are a piece of shit too; the one that we used to have would drop the connection multiple times a day at random times before a couple of weeks ago, when it ( Read more... )

"Batgirl to keep Oracle backstory in DC relaunch"

"Don't call it a comeback! I've been here for years, rockin' my peers, puttin' suckers in fear!" DC Comics doesn't want you to call it a "reboot", because certain events such as The Killing Joke and the Death of Superman are still canon. Probably because DC realized that with their "legions" of new ( Read more... )

Just about every day I post a few links on my Facebook account that I find interesting/amusing. Because it gives something for my LJ to do, I'm going to post them here too, especially since LJ allows me to look backwards.

"Rent-a-Friend!"Odd YouTube video featuring some clips of a video from 1986 that would help lonely people called "Rent-a-Friend ( Read more... )

Bad news: I had a nosebleed at my desk.

Good news: My desk now looks as though I am a librarian of MURDER. Also, electronic reserves.

Watching Hackers. I feel like Alex from A Clockwork Orange, screaming in agony that I can't look away from the sheer stupidity of this movie.

Good news: apparently I have a free subscription to the Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.

Apparently MySpace is being sold for $30 million. Not going to bother asking the question "Who still uses their MySpace," because we all know the answer.

Still...kind of weird watching them do their damnedest to survive.

The mayor of Nanticoke (a town near me) got carjacked and beaten last night. He's still alive and out and about, but may be NOW he'll actually do something about the area being such a shithole.