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Schoolwork has resulted in a severe crunch on time the last few months, to the point where my extra-circular activites have been seriously curtailed. Movies, Warcraft, anime, gaming: all have gone by the wayside while I pursue the research and work needed to write my seminar papers. However, staring at Early English Books Online for hours on end ( Read more... )

UCF's mascot, Knightro, is in the running to make the cover of EA's NCAA 2009 game. The mascot that will make the cover will be selected by vote, and Knightro is currently third. You can vote once a day until Friday, so take 10 seconds to vote for Knightro. No other Florida school is in the top 10, so it won't tarnish your school spirit if you go ( Read more... )

Despite having only played the previous game in the series for about an hour total, Super Smash Brothers Brawl in now on the Wii here at home, which does not bode well for the research paper I have to write ( Read more... )

For hundreds of hours staring at graph paper, for the little lead figures that still sit on my desk to this day, for the beat up rulebooks and funny stories, like the time my friend Bill had his Minotaur fighter run straight at a wall to embed his horns in order to avoid falling as the floor slid away, for whole weekends wasted away in my ( Read more... )

I found this dedication on the front page of a book I'm reading for my paper quite amusing ( Read more... )

In an esoteric confluence of genres, I was flipping through a book called "Four Arguments For the Elimination of Television" for a paper I'm writing when I came across a chapter entitled "BLACK MESA." The first line of the chapter explained how the author had recently left a company named FREEMAN to visit BLACK MESA due to a native American ( Read more... )

Although I'm deep in writing and research, I took a little time to catch up on the Terminator TV show online tonight. I was quite pleasantly surprised by the twists and turns in the last three episodes. I'd write up a longer review/opinion, but schoolwork beckons. Anyone else watching this show?

The Academy Awards are this Sunday night, and I figured it would be fun to see who in LJ land could proven themselves the champion at Oscar predictions. The list of nominees is behind the cut. Copy and paste it in your reply marking your choice in each category.

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A few weeks ago I posted about a lunar eclipse set to occur. However, I mistakenly said it was going to occur that particular week, when in fact it going to happen today, Wednesday the 20th of February.

Totality for the eclipse is due to begin at about 10pm EST and last until about 10:51pm.