By which, I mean the apartment I've been living in for nearly two months now. cerestheories and I are finally getting satisfied with how the place looks. We're not allowed to hang things on the walls, which makes a couple of the rooms look dull and un-lived-in, but we're managing. The most important thing is that yesterday we went to Interlaken to pick up a ( Read more... )

I got in! I don't even care whether or not anyone else takes me.

I got the job as a Mac Technician, the apartment in Ithaca, and I will be moving by the 1st, with Squishy and Cinder, and cerestheories to follow a couple weeks after once her job runs out. YAY!

*does the Obama dance*

For New Year's Eve, cerestheories and I decided to go down and join folks in Boston, and we hung out at palantier's and raglar's for the evening. I was really nice to see folks. Of course, it turns out I left my dome light on all night in Alewife station, and so when we got back to my car, it was completely dead. Thankfully we were parked on the ramp between floors, and ( Read more... )

Shameless plug:

I know several of you have used cerestheories products and liked them! Don't forget to go to her website, Green Mountain Bath & Body, to order stuff in time for the holidays, if that was your intent. It's inexpensive and all-natural, and meant for everyday use, and priced for everyday use. It feels way better than the stuff I buy at the ( Read more... )

Can anyone else tell when CRTs are on in the next room, or do I just have the stupidest mutant power ever?

There has to be some kind of bio/psychological reason for it.

I really need to start writing on paper post-it notes on computers, which partitions are what, where they physically are in the machine, and what cables they're attached by. It beats running through for like ten minutes with cables and bootloaders trying to remember what goes where ( Read more... )

So I submitted my Cornell application and I'm freaking out a little ( Read more... )

There really needs to be a video of it. My cat, Squishy, just doesn't know what to make of this robotic vacuum coming into his turf. He loves people, hates animals, and just has no idea what to do with a Roomba.