Ok, so here's a poll of sorts.

1) If someone were to give you free home-made cookies, what kind would you want them to be?

2) What kind of cookie do you think the average random person would be most likely to like?

Yesterday I saw a woman on the train with a bag decorated with, as best as I can describe it, undead Hello Kitty. But this is just an example of what I could only call cutesy-goth. But Goth isn’t right, because the folks under the bags and clothes don’t look goth, just a bit “alternative.” No black hair and eyeliner. No non-functional chains. ( Read more... )

So it’s December and I think I can safely say that we’re all eagerly awaiting the solstice and the slow increase in the length of days. When I lived with my parents, we celebrated Christmas in our own secular way, and I liked “the season” a lot. I liked Christmas day a lot too because we got presents and what kid doesn’t like that. Most of all, ( Read more... )

Today I was able to walk to an earlier train again. I was not in a particularly great mood, so I had to mentally remind myself to notice how utterly beautiful it was on the street on which I was walking.

Today work felt slightly less long than yesterday.

No, not THAT kind of spirits, I mean liquor ( Read more... )

I’m going to sound very dull and trendy here, but I thought I’d post some of my initial thoughts about the Sarah Connor Chronicles. At the recommendation of Desdenova and others I put the first season on my Netflix queue many months ago, and the DVD just recently came out and they shipped. I have now watched 3.5 episodes, including the pilot, so ( Read more... )

I always find it embarrassing when I need to do some simple calculus and I can hardly remember how. I just don't get much practice anymore in differentiating and integrating, so that even a hairy application of the chain rule makes me sweat a bit. The exception is that I remember integration by parts because that comes up now and again in some ( Read more... )

I have been giving some thought to what makes people compatible, especially nerdy people like myself ( Read more... )

Usually I don't touch these sort of things with a 10 foot anything, but I'm very bored.

Your results:
You are Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)
Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)
70%
Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)
65%
River (Stowaway)
60%
Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)
55%
Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)
50%
Alliance
50%
Wash (Ship Pilot)
40%
Inara Serra ( ( Read more... )

Last night I tried week 3, day 1 of the program, day 5 for me. For the first time, I couldn’t do it. Since I can do over 30 pushups in a set when not exhausted, that qualifies me for column 3 again, which told me to do 25, 17, 17, 15 and 25+. I’m sorry, but I think they are full of it. That is a major bump from week 2. I knew before I started ( Read more... )