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How Do I Nerd vol. III: Care and Feeding of Twitchy Computers
So, it appears the volume controls on my laptop have fried. Poor Ballantine thinks that someone is continually tapping the "Volume Down" button, complete with annoying electronic clicky noise... I can turn the volume back up through the desktop interface, but it clicks right back down again. In related news, the mute button still works. :P (And ( Read more... ) -
Hobbit Problems
So, for those of you who have used Ancestry.com... especially if you've found yourself in the enviable yet sticky situation of entering hard-copy family research into your tree... what the heck do you do when you reach the point where ancestors stop having surnames and start being "of Somewhere?"
Also, I either need to stop transcribing RIGHT now ( Read more... ) -
So... a year and a half. Well. That's... yeah.
Does DW-to-LJ crossposting even still work? I guess we'll find out.
Things got super-busy in alternately awesome and stressful ways (sometimes both at the same time), and even when I had surplus time to futz on the internet, blog-type fandom seemed a very awkward thing to get back into... I mean, it's been a while, and it's one thing to post many ( Read more... ) -
You know the drill...
Homework, distraction, existential guilt over not posting, etcetera, etcetera. Pretty sure you're all used to me disappearing by this point. Been since the very end of August since I posted, and I think my reading dropped off... sometime in late October, maybe? Long time, anyways. I'll skip back to the beginning of the week with my reading, but ( Read more... ) -
Continued Textbook Saga (+ some things making me happy)
Okay, so, in the time since my last post, I have:
( Teal deer. Well, I don't HAVE a teal deer, just this post is one. Big, giant teal deer. ) -
Help. I don't know how, but help.
Dear Well-Intentioned Professor,
I appreciate your efforts to support small, local bookstores. Admire them, even. And, happily, the bookstore you've chosen to support is one I'm not allowed to enter without a chaperone, on account of how much money I can spend there.
But I pay a MANDATORY $395 Non-Allocable Segregated Fee every semester. A ( Read more... ) -
Must... blog...
Okay, I just realized that I totally forgot to thank everyone who filled out the polls for my anthropology of language class (found HERE and HERE)! You guys are awesome! I aced that assignment, too - 100% on the presentation, something like 95% on the paper (damn school, everything electronic and then you can't access it once the semester's done ( Read more... ) -
I ate a salad for lunch. It was like a symbolic pile of new leaves I plan to turn over.
Also, I was hungry, and salad was the only vaguely healthy thing that I could figure out haw to make in less than five minutes (as opposed to, say, a can of soup or something). It was tasty, mostly because it had cilantro, pepperoni, portabello mushroom slices, and a considerable amount of Manchego cheese on top of it ( Read more... ) -
More survey + melty!me
First off, thank you so much to those who have already taken the survey in my previous entry (and if you haven't yet, will you pretty please take a couple minutes to do so?). I know the phrasing is a little funky and it needed more questions and better answer options, which makes you all the more awesome. You know what would make you even more ( Read more... )