So Vivian wakes me with an elaborate plan to go test drive a Tiburon in Orlando (Sanford, actually). The plan gets more elaborate as more cars and my parents are brought into the equation. In the end, we embark, drive to LockMart, rescue my father from work, try and fail to stop and see most of the cars we were aiming to see, and wind up seeing ( Read more... )

You know, in the course of my life I must've seen Episode IV: A New Hope at least half a dozen, maybe as many as a dozen times.

Never before did I note the stormtrooper that clocks himself on the blast door when they burst in to search for R2 and C3-PO.

DVDs are awesome.

I'm posting for no purpose other than to show off my new userpic, which exists because I am highly awesome.

EDIT: SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

TEN CENT DAY.

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So, Book Sale was actually yesterday (or at least, my journey to it was), but a rather busy weekend has kept me from recording my take until now.

But now, I do. Book sale! BOOK SALE!

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"I really hope that your daughter's ultimate sacrifice - becoming a humiliating public spectacle for your financial and political gain and a tool for the character assassination of her husband - will pay dividends down the road and allow the Republican dominated legislative and executive branch to erode the checks and balances imposed by the ( Read more... )

Wouldn't it be neat to know more about what the Hubble Space Telescope is pointed at these days? Or maybe something about education rates, or poverty? Or the spread of infectious disease in Africa?

No, stupid Americans. You don't want to know any of that. You want some more bullshit about Terri Schiavo.

( So here you go: )

My .02 on the Terri Schiavo business, to round out today's trifecta of posts. From CNN ( Read more... )

Wow.

Well, now, that was interesting. I'm going to LJ-cut for those who prefer not to be spoiled.

( Tonight's West Wing... )

So I just started reading Webster's Dictionary of Word Origins. (Yes, I read dictionaries for fun. What of it?) It's quite interesting for anyone who likes that sort of thing. I wanted, however, to quote two lines:

"Cretin originally meant 'Christian' and was used charitably for a kind of mentally deficient person. The Modern English word ( Read more... )