Just noticed, Permanent user accounts go on sale Dec 4-10. They do this kinda sporadically, so for those that have paid accounts and want to keep it that way, here's your opportunity. $175 for the thing.

Thanksgiving was ok, felt kinda bad because my family wasn't able to come up. We'd been having alternating years for Thanksgiving, one year with my family (with her family coming down) and the next with her family (with my family coming up). This year, my brother's football team had a semi-final game the Friday after Thanksgiving and they couldn' ( Read more... )

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Bizarre day. Have been working at home a lot, haven't been getting enough rest and there are a bunch of bugs going around. Think I might've caught a bit of one, but haven't had time to be sick so haven't worried about it. Thankfully it hasn't been so pronounced that I can't function, just annoying at times. In any case, woke up late this ( Read more... )

Saw an interview last night, Michelle Obama was on Larry King Live. Most of it was pretty benign, but there was a section in there that really resonated with me. When she was talking about their campaign efforts to get out the vote... obviously, every campaign has an interest in getting people to not just support them, but to actualy go out to ( Read more... )

So Saturday we went up to Goddard to check out NASA's Launchfest. Interesting, but not something I probably would've gone for in the normal course of things (too many people!) except that it turns out they were going to be doing a demo there that involved the robot Jes is going to be playing with this semester. She was pretty excited about the ( Read more... )

I'm somewhat worried this will turn into a political ramblings blog, but... of the things on my mind at the moment, it's the one that interests me. I might post up a few lessons learned from my .NET playing, too, but will see what happens ( Read more... )

One thing I really don't get. I watched a good piece of the DNC and now I'm watching the RNC, trying to keep an open mind about it all and see what both sides have to say. But one thing that really confuses me is the RNC stressing that Obama wants to increase taxes and increase government spending ( Read more... )

I thought this article was really interesting and explains well something that I keep in mind a lot.

I think part of what I've been struggling with of late is what to do next. As you grow up, you have clear goals. Structured education, move from grade to grade, get good grades as you do so so you can get into a good college and maybe get a scholarship, etc. Once you're in college, do something useful and do well so you can get a good job. All ( Read more... )