Yep, I did it. Pre-ordered the book and read it - slowly - over a 2 day time period. And it was a great ending to saga, I think, though I must admit that for the first time I correctly and precisely guessed the major twist at the end which was kind of exciting. It really makes me wonder, though, through all these years of the story as lovely J.K ( Read more... )

Just had to share, heard it on NPR. It was for an Apple 2E and would self replicate, causing the users computer to randomly spit out bad poetry. Isn't that awesome! More info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus

I love wikipedia...

Yes, I just saw the coolest thing ever and, of course, its a Joss Whedon creation. It would be the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode entitled "Once More With Feeling" which was..... a musical! Its so awesome! There's dancing, and singing, and butt-kicking and vampires and demons I mean, what could be cooler than that? I holding out high hopes ( Read more... )

Well, I am alive and hanging out in acupuncture limbo waiting... waiting... waiting... for my license to come through so I can practice. Its so odd, not having a clear purpose. I have lots of things around the house to do, and I am still writing grants but not much and I just feel kind of aimless. And I hate the board of medical examiners. They ( Read more... )

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! I HATE CAULK! It is evil and cruel and malicious and hateful and must have been invented by the prince of darkness. Let me count the reasons I hate caulk ( Read more... )

Yes! I'm alive and well and married. Married! Pretty wild. I got a lovely thrill out of being called "Mrs." on our honeymoon in Maui and it was awesome. The wedding was fantastic, truly perfect from my perspective and the honeymoon was fantastic. Yes, we spent 8 days in Maui and snorkeled until we couldn't snorkel any more. I became a ( Read more... )

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Well, we couldn't take all the continuous shedding of our lovely Naiobi dog anymore so... we shaved her. Yes, intead of a lovely red dog we now have a fuzzy red-tinged large white rat. With a fluffy lion tail, we left her the tail. She hated the process of course, we used the cow clippers from the farm which are very noisy, but she actually seems ( Read more... )

Your Personality Is Like Ecstasy
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Its over! The accursed time of testing is finally done as of 4:30pm today. Lets just decide that I passed all my board exams and I won't have to take any of them again in October. All in all the experience was, well, awful. I had to drive anywhere from 25-75 minutes each way to get to and from my exams, sit in front of a computer for 1 to 3 ( Read more... )