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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
1:18 am	16 going on 1,806 My last several weeks have been spent hitting the books, painstakingly researching ancient history for a couple of GURPS projects, only to discover I've been cohabitating with the 3rd century Roman Emperor Elagabalus all this time, and could have just asked. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
6:47 am	I TRIUMPH IN FINAL JUDGMENT! My junior year of University is now complete. (I started back last summer, inspired partly by anaka and partly by losing my job when my boss died last January.) It was a long hard slog for the last six weeks, competing with part time work, apnea, a lab partner's divorce and housing crisis, a sister's chronic illness, dental drama, and two weeks' worth of finals week. 20017 CIS 310 001 Analysis of Algorithms Main A 20002 CIS 320 001 Digital Logic Main B 20029 CIS 367 001 Software Engineering Main A 20045 CIS 370 001 Programming Language Design Main A 20373 CIS 489 005 Operating Systems Main A Course total US History I - HIST 1301.W1 (J. Stuart) B+ 87 % I did have the advantage of being in the IT support field for the last 12 years, but I don't recommend attempting 18 hours (15 at university, 3 at community college) in the same semester unless you're an unmarried orphan with a trust fund and perfect health. So of course, I'm going to try to cram 9 hours into the summer instead! <^^^^> Current Mood: crazy (Comment on this)
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
3:51 am	Writer's Block: Spoilers Below the Cut Have you ever ruined the ending or given away plot developments in a book, movie, or tv show by telling someone who hasn't seen or read it what happens? Has anyone ever done this to you? View other answers I've often faux-spoiled books and movies by saying, "Everyone dies at the end!" which has convinced a few victims until they saw/read the actual ending, but the only person it was really spoiled for was _Huckleberry Finn_ in a Lit class, and the poor girl took me at my word and apparently didn't bother to finish the actual book as she flunked the exam on it spectacularly. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 19th, 2008
2:00 am	autophotography meme - 10 years ahead of the pack. Take a picture of yourself right now. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture. Of course, since my default icon is the same thing only from 1998, this is a bit redundant. Alas, those sleek features of my bygone youth.... (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
6:35 pm	Zen Nihilists obliterate an Olympiad! I had a disagreement with another blogger over some things they'd said in the past and later denied. I went back to review the entries only to find they'd redacted at least 4 years' worth of their own postings. Edit Arcadia Ego (Comment on this)
Friday, June 27th, 2008
1:42 am	Now with MATT KEESLAR So I was watching The Middleman with Matt Keeslar and I thought, didn't jldecker go to the same school as Matt Keeslar? I think she did. I bet she would enjoy watching this show with Matt Keeslar, which also has lots of geeky references and positive (mostly) female characters. And Matt Keeslar. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
10:25 pm	Picking Back Up Please let me know if I have promised to send you something or check on something for you or otherwise have left you waiting on me to do something. I am finishing a busy period of work and other distractions, and would like to catch up on my sadly neglected personal obligations. Current Mood: Contrite (Comment on this)
Monday, June 16th, 2008
5:18 am	Something Old, Something New Took my son to see the new Hulk movie for Father's Day; I feel it is an improvement on the previous film, and follows more closely from the TV series thematically and visually along with some name-dropping. Miles was aghast that they killed off Stan Lee (cameo as person who drinks soda tainted with Banner's gamma-poisoned blood) but after seeing Tim Blake Nelson being set up to become The Leader, I assured him Stan probably ended up with a super-powerful stomach instead. Not Tim Roth's best work, but Edward Norton's usual top-notch job and William Hurt actually playing someone besides William Hurt for the first time in a long time. Recommended for fans of the Hulk, of any of the stars, of capoeria, and Brasilophiles in general. Unable to wind down later, I sat up and watched Soylent Green at Netflix's website for the first time. It makes a lot of the same statements as the first Rollerball, but at about half the budget and without any of the iconic imagery except for the Soylent wafers themselves. (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
3:52 am	Tips For Effective Graverobber Deterrence 1. Do not wear skulls presumably taken from the graves you are guarding, it makes you look insincere. Plus, they attract shovels. 2. When employing a blowgun, limit sharpening and the application of poison to the forward end of each dart. 3. Avoid being descended from ancestors that bury dead graverobbers with their loot and a crystal skull they've stolen from some other graveyard or tomb, it makes you look insincere. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
3:28 am	"...to the end of the human race." Just watched the S2 episode "Home, Pt2", where Sharon's pregnancy is revealed to Baltar and his mental Number Six tells him she's an angel sent to watch over him until the human race ends. In light of the other human-Cylon pregnancy (Chief-Callie), I'm thinking that the "end of the human race" refers to its end as a separate strain from the Cylons. In short, the Cylon master plan is to "end" humanity by assimilation, not Borg style but by interbreeding. Tigh-Caprica Six would seem like a misstep, but it does seem to confirm that the both male and female skinjobs were made with general reproductive capacities, and that they are a gene pool among themselves, not just as an adjunct to human. This is truly a "race suicide" scenario as feared by Segregationalist politicians. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
8:34 pm	Jane, Stop This Crazy Thing! I'm mostly enjoying the World of Warcraft trial edition, but the lack of basic command documentation can be really frustrating; I have to put some meat down for a runaway dog to eat, but I can't find the command to actually drop something, and there doesn't seem to be an list of commands mentioned, and the indexes I've found are pitifully shallow. Can any WoWers out there give me a pointer to such a list? Or just tell me how to drop things?! Current Mood: aggravated (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
12:49 am	So it goes.... Like I said, my boss died. Mr Barber was not just a boss, but also a friend and a teacher; he had been the leader of our Boy Scout Computer Explorers group when I was about 13. In this way I followed the tradition of following one's mentor into their profession and coming to work with them as a peer, and even got to save the day on a couple of occasions by being able to accomplish what they could not. Some bosses might have been upset or dismissive at being shown up, but Mr Barber was complimentary of my skills and considered himself equally accomplished in having picked me to work with him; the praise was sweet indeed. Mr Barber was also a poor business man, a complainer, a chain smoker, and an abuser of medication. As a recovering alcoholic and narcotics abuser, he had been straight and sober for over 20 years, working with and actually helping hundreds of people with their own addictions. He did not have anything good to say about black people, but he would deal with them just as fairly and courteously to their face as white people, if not actually more so. I never caught him in a lie, though he was often forgetful. He would honor a verbal deal even when he had mistakenly offered to pay me five bucks an hour too much. It was my misfortune that he died on the last day of late registration for the spring semester, so now I am out of a steady job and unable to make any progress toward my degree for months. (Mrs Barber closed the service department and is selling off the inventory while she looks for a buyer for the building.) I'm currently doing decently on freelance work and unemployment (something of a see-saw there) and the federal tax refund didn't hurt any, either. I am setup to take my son and my wretched manservant on our nigh-yearly trip to Aggiecon. And that's all I have to say about that. Current Mood: content (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
12:44 am	Space Copwboy Finally Sees Her Later Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts performing live (Comment on this)
Monday, February 11th, 2008
8:43 pm	Must...Unthink....Image! I may have ruined the new Terminator series for myself by noticing the peculiar resemblance between Summer Glau's deadpan robot expression and Peter Lorre. (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
10:22 pm	Missing The Boat I fairly often miss continued discussion of another person's or forum LJ post that I replied to early on, but that goes on without me because no one replies directly to me. I am already notified if someone replies directly to my reply, is there a way to set options to be notified is someone replies elsewhere under the same original post? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
2:12 am	Oracular Thought for the Day It occurs to me that about twenty or thirty years from now, there will be a low-budget indie film whose promotion gimmick is that it was shot on location with real stunts performed by human beings driving real cars, falling through real windows, etc. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
5:51 pm	Ugh! My boss died today. More later. Current Mood: tired (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 7th, 2008
8:14 pm	Don't Step in the Leadership Him: "We've got to get our productivity up, it's as low as 10%. In fact, there were two days last week when we didn't have any sales at all." Me: "Would those be the two days we were closed?" Current Mood: aggravated (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
10:08 pm	I'll get you a satanic mechanic! o/~ Guess who performed technical maintenance on the broadband connection at Hot Topic #666 today? :) Current Mood: amused Current Music: Rocky Horror - "Sweet Transvestite" (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
10:01 pm	Scratching multiple itches This looks to be interesting, if you like Kevin Smith, deal-with-the-devil stories, superheroes, romantic comedy, and DIY. (1 Comment |Comment on this)