I got this bag as a gift from a Chinese trainee who's wife got hit by a car causing him to return to China. The wife was not injured too critically and is busy recovering.

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I was suddenly woken up this morning and I hallucinated some scorpion creature (with no tail) on my bookshelf. I then turned my head and hallucinated another one, or perhaps the same one, next to my alarm clock. Fortunately, I was aware of it being unreal and just sat up in bed reading the time on my alarm clock and they went away in about a half ( Read more... )

I got away with hosting only three or four meetings in two years but I had to schedule three this week. I feel so guilty. My hands are tainted by an act that will slowly grind away the sanity and the very humanity of my fellow engineers.

Maybe I'll send out an email promising they will be short. Give them hope. False as it may be.

People need to visit me more often so I will clean more often.

I pirated Final Fantasy Tactics Advance back when I was in college (I know, I'm a criminal) and played it on an emulator. Now that I'm employed I went and purchased the new one for my Nintendo DS.
The emulator I was using allowed you to increase the game's speed by skipping frames. Unfortunately, I played the older one in constant 5 times fast ( Read more... )

As promised. Pictures of new paintings (monotypes technically). Don't worry, my wall is not caving in. I'm just not photoshop savvy enough to undo the curvature caused by the camera lens.

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The air quality has improved to typical LA levels. Everyone seems certain that everything will catch fire again on the forth of July when everyone gets drunk and plays with explosives. There are signs up all over town put up by the city council warning "Rohnert Park has a ZERO TOLERANCE policy on illegal fireworks!".

From co-worker in Shanghai:

On the internet everyone knows you're not actually an elf.

I produced the following estimates for a co-worker. I wasn't trying too hard for accuracy ( Read more... )

Fluffy Scott predicts:

• Obama will pick a female running mate not named Hillary Clinton.
• The fall television schedule will be more crammed with shows than usual due to backlog of projects delayed from writers strike.
• Someone in Bush's cabinet will mumble something about kinda-sorta-maybe chatting with Hamas indirectly as Israel is kinda-sorta doing ( Read more... )