Fair Isaac Corporation offers ScoreWatch, which is normally an annual subscription service. They also offer a month-long free trial, and appear to be pretty well on the up-and-up as far as actually canceling when the customer says so, etc. I wasn't sure what my credit score was: I figured it would be decent but not fantastically high, probably ( Read more... )

I organize Magic: the Gathering tournaments at the game store where I work, and this last weekend marked the prerelease for the latest set. We ran one (our second prerelease) and got 35 players (our highest turnout) and had what was probably our busiest game room to date. I think things went pretty smoothly: nobody complained about the event itself ( Read more... )

It's official! I'll be going to Toronto for ten days after I graduate, from May 18th to 28th ( Read more... )

The start of the semester's going pretty well. I'm getting stuff done, and it's nice. I've reorganized my room, and it's not astonishingly better, but it's got a lot more usable space than it did before. Right now I haven't got anywhere to store my clothes: my dresser was cracked along one side and after moving it it became a lot worse, so right ( Read more... )

Me: you give me miles and miles of mountains and i ask for the sea ( Read more... )

I realized yesterday that I'm at a stage where I can just as easily stay out of the rat race as integrate. I've spent the last twenty years on the edge of the race or outside and I don't know that I want to enter; on the other hand, the pressure to integrate is intense ( Read more... )

I posted my resume to a university-sponsored career search site called GoldPASS. It's a bit like Monster except that everyone on the network has passed at least minimal screening from the University of Minnesota system ( Read more... )

I'm feeling good. I went grocery shopping yesterday and finally got some staples for my house: not a ton, but I can at least make some simple recipes, and I have things on hand so I can branch out a little bit at a time without dropping $50. I mostly got pasta and canned tomato products and beans, and it should be enough to last me for a while and ( Read more... )

I have tended to hang out in groups that have been very strongly male-dominated: groups like gamers, computer geeks, mathematicians, philosophers. But when I traveled around Scotland, I socialized nearly exclusively with women: they were more likely to engage me in conversation, and frankly, I felt safer with them. Since I learned to knit, I've ( Read more... )

Today I buckled and created an eBay account.

Tomorrow I turn twenty.