第一：I tried cooking something, without assistance, for the first time.. umm.. ever, today. Okay, I guess I can do omelettes and a few other things, but in general, I haven't really ever tried cooking anything for consumption by people apart from myself, at least not without significant assistance, or in fact just being an assistant to someone else ( Read more... )

Due to the thickness and kinda.. boofiness of my hair, I've had requests from several people at various points in time to grow a mini-afro. It's already thicker than I'd like it, but I'll see whether I can stand not shaving my hair for another month and see what it looks like ( Read more... )

Do you ever get that feeling when you look at a perfectly ordinary word, and for some reason it just looks.. odd? You even know that it's right, but just at that moment, it looks strange. Sometimes it happens when I've had to write a particular word often in a short space of time (hmm, reminds me writing lines in primary school... or even high ( Read more... )

As I'd mentioned before, for the most part I did like the opening ceremony. And I still stand by that. But some of the information coming to light afterwards does put a bit of a downer on it. The faked fireworks.. not such a big deal, since they weren't the parts I was most impressed with, but the knowledge still was slightly disappointing. But ( Read more... )

Just finished reading "Throne of Jade". My discipline was much more lacking this time, having purchased it Friday and finished it a couple of minutes ago, compared with the first book which I purchased the Friday before that, and managed to pace myself such that I finished "Temeraire" on Thursday. Oops ( Read more... )

Wow, the Olympic opening ceremony was pretty amazing, huh? Any other thoughts that I sometimes have when thinking of China (government, and other.. issues) were for those few hours suppressed as I sat and watched.

*attaches [sic] to the entire post ( Read more... )

I noticed that sometimes I seem to forget how to count. In particular, when exercising, I can see why it's generally better to use a clock or a timer, rather than counting seconds off myself ( Read more... )

So, I hear that Scrabulous has been blocked to U.S. and Canadian users on Facebook. That must be rather annoying.

Since it's a take-down under the DMCA, does anyone know what properties in particular are causing issues? It just seems so old, I would have thought copyright would have expired by now.

edit: Nevermind, I found Hasbro's filed ( Read more... )

Whew, I'm finally all caught up with Battlestar Galactica, and waiting with everyone else until next year for the rest of it. (c: I can finally start reading other peoples' analysis and speculation without fearing spoilers.

( Few random thoughts )