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Haitus
I hate to do this, but I've got to give Livejournal a rest for a bit. It's the most horrible time of the year... crunch time! I need to get off LJ and do my giant pile of assignments, and the only way I can force myself to do that is to tell everyone that I won't be around.
So if I I'm not posting or making comments to your entries, it's not that ( Read more... ) -
Je me souviens
Twenty years ago on this date, a lone gunman walked into Montreal's École Polytechnique and killed fourteen people before turning the gun on himself. His victims were all female and most were studying to be engineers. Twenty-four people in total were wounded in the attack. When one of the students asked why he was there, he answered, "You're ( Read more... ) -
Obscure Canadian musicians take on an airline
If I didn't love the Sons of Maxwell before, I would now. Apparently United Airlines broke Dave Carroll's guitar a year ago and has refused to pay compensation. So like any decent musician would, he's written a hilarious country song about it:
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"For as myn auctour seyde, so sey I."
Some musings on popular culture, spanning several centuries and using ridiculously sweeping generalizations.
Lately I, and many other people, have been lamenting the state of popular entertainment. Reality shows aside (because that would be a rant all in itself), most of the successful shows, movies, etc. are basically remakes of older ideas. A ( Read more... ) -
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I think this year's Latin bootcamp is officially getting to me. Case in point: last night I tried to spell "illustrious" as "illustrius." And over the Christmas holidays I declined my cousins' names. Two of them end with -a (first declension) and one with -er (second declension), so it was easy ( Read more... ) -
Christmas Eve
Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas to you all!
Have a wonderful Christmas, and if the weather is as weird where you are as it is here, be careful on the roads!
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Pushing Daisies
Dear ABC,
Apparently you've cancelled Pushing Daisies, one of the funniest, most original shows on the air. Congratulations. Now there is officially nothing on your network that I care about. Feel free to fill that hour with generic, soul-killing reality shows and reruns; I certainly won't be watching. Congratulations.
Sincerely,
Me.
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Computer troubles
So my computer died yesterday. I took it in to the repair place and was told that it's probably the hard drive. Fantastic. I'm hoping that they can fix it, or at least that they have new hard drives on sale ( Read more... ) -
Fun fact for the day
Apparently at Kalamazoo (where the university holds a huge annual medieval studies conference) there's a group that gives mock papers. One year they wrote and presented a paper examining the time when Dante went to Ireland. "Apparently" while he was there, he invented limericks! Hahahahaha.
Now I have a new goal in life: write one of those papers. ( Read more... )
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