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  Making my own pizza is not that much cheaper than calling 2353535. Relatively.

The sausages alone are $2. The crust, cheese, and mushrooms are $1 each. The other garnishings add up to another dollar. So that's $6 for a personal size pizza compared with the $10 deals that Pizza Hut now has. Worse when I used salami - I stopped because the one I ( Read more... )

 
  I spent $100 on Street Fighter a few Sundays ago. $90 on Street Fighter 4, and $10 on Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

It could only have been Sheng Long's will! For did He not say "ROUND ONE!"? (And then there was "FIGHT!"?)

:spoiler: Yes He did! :endspoiler:

Thing is, I had been searching for the game for about a month. It had ( Read more... )

  This is the first time in my life that I've wished my Mandarin was better. SARFT's mission statement is buried somewhere in that morass of tl;dr Chinese words.

It's not exactly essential. I can predict what it'll say. That we the CCCP are protecting the peasants from Western slander and disinformation (curse the West, they always pick on our ( Read more... )

 
  I really dislike writing personal statements. They're ultimately self-aggrandising pieces, and I'm uneasy with such. Sure, I mean every word I write, and the committees need it to get a better picture of me (which a formal research proposal cannot do), but still...

So I've gulped down a can of beer so that I'll be genki (BANZAI!) and the task ( Read more... )

 
  Alas! there already exists quite nifty work on the footnotes in Jonathan Strange! But my loss is humanity's gain.

Tomorrow: return books, and check out new ones on censorship and Disney.

Y'know, a really simple project would be to write something on the conseravative carnivalesque in Disney's Enchanted, and tie that in to Henry Jenkins's idea ( Read more... )

   
  I ...what? No. No. Just no. NO. I much prefer the soft science fiction he's referencing (its not so hard to unnerstand), but the hello-byebye-helloagain cycle predates the Christian faith. You don't have to be religious to come up with those kinds of stories. They're simply semi-rational, highly symbolic resolutions of anxieties over the human ( Read more... )

    
  Ahahahaha! at this news regarding the final book of The Wheel of Time. Brandon Sanderson has tons of work ethic, and TOR, not unexpectedly, is trying to get as much money as possible from their flagship series.

Books 1-6 were OK, even though Jordan liked to ramble in a (rather unfortunately for the hapless reader) very unSusanna Clarke-like ( Read more... )

  There's a CFP for "film criticism on representations of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability and other forms of difference in Disney features".

I want to do Hunchback because I like the songs, or Beauty and the Beast because Belle is smart and the super macho guy is funny. But I am reading about the chronotope now, and I don't think I can ( Read more... )

  Friday already? Where the heck did  the week go, and why is it so close to deadline now?