Thursday, September 27th, 2007
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12:35 pm - we're going to have a subway in Toronto.
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Monday, October 16th, 2006
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7:24 pm - Testing...
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
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3:16 pm - tiny little floating hearts
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006
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11:39 am - Not quite Pruno, but hey!
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Hey! Everyone loves fermentation, right? At least everybody whose name starts with "N" and rhymes with "Bleschek!" So if you're one of these people, perhaps you'd like to try your hand at making your very own jug of probably extremely crappy wine! Relive those halcyon days of yore, when you'd steal some Thunderbird from the corner store and take it back behind the dumpster to kill your little grey cells with your spotty buddies.
What fun. Personally I don't really like wine. It all tastes like grape juice gone bad to me.
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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
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2:13 pm - VE VILL HAVE ORDER
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So man I go away and then come back and LJ is totally, well, not totally, but somewhat different nonetheless. What is this plus thing? Okay, there's ads and shit, is it terrible? Is it worth doing? Do you do it? Let me know so I can see your page and determine how gagtastic the ad intrusions are.
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2004
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11:14 am - Pierre shows us how it's done.
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2004
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6:35 pm - boom boom boom, let's go back to my room
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Gree-ee-eee-tings from the shore.
Welp, this semester is now more or less officially ovah, as I turned in the second part of my cataloging test yesterday. That means I get a whole.... lessee... TEN BIG DAYS of summer vacation before this coming semester. Joy of joy. I've already been on patrol, me and the circus bike; I went to the local public library, then went to a local coffee house and had a local mocha. I'm all about the local on Saturdays, seeing as I got no car and I'm too cheap to BART unless I gotta. And man, talking about things getting better -- I've got a whole new batch of beer just about entering the final stretches of bottle conditioning. Can I get a HELL YAH
Anyway. It felt good to get out on the circus bike. I gotta bike more often, really.
Now that I'm between school semesters, I really love you all.
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2004
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12:54 pm - take some time out to help train a robot
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MIT has set up this hyper-nifty voice recognition system that is tied to weather data. Basically you call it up and ask it your weather question in plain English, like "Will it rain tomorrow in Calgary?" or something like that.
1-888-573-8255
It's free, natch.
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Friday, April 30th, 2004
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8:18 am - getting up
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So while I was riding the train this morning I was (as usual) listening to NPR, and Bob Edwards (tnx to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) crayonbeam for the link) was doing an interview with Ted Koppel about Ted Koppel's reading the names of the American war dead on Nightline, and at the very end of the piece TK says something really nice about this being Bob's last day on Morning Edition, and asks him "Well, at least you can sleep in now. What time do you get up in the morning? Four? Five?"
Turns out Bob Edwards gets (well, got I guess) up at ONE IN THE MORNING. Man.
Maybe this is a good thing for him. I bet the guy never sees the sun as it is.
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Thursday, April 29th, 2004
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9:10 am - flip flop
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2004
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8:07 am - on the danger of talking to californians
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So I was in the staff lunch room having a pleasant chat with a colleague who is also going to skool, when talk turned to membership in professional organizations.
She: "Yeah, I'm not a member of ALA, but I'm a member of SLA". (unfortunately not this SLA; that would be badass!!!) .
Me: "Yeah, that's good. I've been really lax in this department; I'm a member of bupkes."
She: "Oh? What sort of a group is bupkes?"
Me: "..." (whereupon I explained to her what it meant and we both had a hearty laugh.)
I guess there's a tragic lack of Yiddish folks in Best Foods country.
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Monday, April 26th, 2004
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10:14 am - calling all nerds, calling all nerds
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D&D is 30.
It actually sort of shocks me that I'm older than D&D. Granted, not by much -- less than a year -- but still.
Used to play it, natch, like almost every other (male) geek of a certain age. Especially in Singapore during middle school (1983-1987), when exactly one store in the entire country (LeisureCraft, down deep Orchard Road -- I seem to remember it being close to Centrepoint Mall but I could be utterly wrong. I wonder if it's still there) carried RPG stuff.
Good times, oh yeah.
I still like games. Not really RPG, but board-ish and card-ish ones, although it's difficult sometimes to wrangle up people to play. I still haven't managed to play BANG! yet, although p7a77 and me are rarin' to go.
Update:
Yup. Leisurecraft is long gone.
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Monday, April 19th, 2004
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10:04 am - here comes your man
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Bad situation 1: I've got a speech to give about my final paper in one of my classes in ten days. Paper itself is due in mid-May.
Bad situation 2: I've done some research (including finding a pretty bitchin' bibliography) and written an outline, but have yet to strike pen on the actual goddamn paper.
Bad situation 3: Hate writing papers. Natch.
Good situation 1: Other people are giving speeches first about their stuff, so I'll know sorta what to expect by the time my turn rolls around.
Good situation 2: The paper is about a topic I feel pretty goddamn strongly about. So it's not as if I'm disinterested.
Good situation 3: Thanks to my homebrewing efforts, I have plenty of beer.
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Monday, April 12th, 2004
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11:30 am - two things I did at skool this weekend.
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So I had library school all this weekend. Did two things:
1. Made a cutter number for myself. When I told someone at class about this, they teased me without mercy.
2. Calculated how long I have to graduate. Unless I'm mistaken or I royally fuck something up, I will be free in one year.
Free.
Very, very hard for me to believe right now.
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2004
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3:57 pm - I'm using this machine to watch you from space
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I did something terrifically brave today.
I ate Indian food.
This may not seem like a big deal to you. And it wasn't a big deal to me either, except for what happened a few months ago when I ate Indian food, got sick, waited a month or so, ate Indian food again, and got terrifically sick, like sick-enough-to-go-to-the-ER-(with-a-fever-of-107)-even-though-I'm-a-guy-from-the-Midwest-where-we-traditionally-wait-until-say-our-arms-are-hanging-out-of-our-sockets-all-bloody-flesh-and-exposed-bone-before-we-go-to-the-ER-and-maybe-not-even-then-but-maybe-we-just-get-a-band-aid-or-something, and that was enough to scare me out of Indian food for a good goddamn long time even though previous to all that I ate them regularly and, might I add, with gusto. Damn you bet.
So today me and the phyx went out to eat. Phyx says "Let's go eat Indian food!" and I say "Dear Gott im Himmel, no no no" but then I am seized with a reckless abandon for my own health and went. And ate the exact same dish that got me torrentially sick the last time.
It's been three point five hours since I've finished eating. So far so good.
Free at last?
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Thursday, April 1st, 2004
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7:50 am - this post contains no fools...
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...except the author himself.
From the shore:
I've been given what amounts to a week's reprieve from skool (no assignments for cataloging, and no class or readings for academic issues) and am so giddy with excitement that I have arranged with a buddy to go tour the Anchor Brewing plant down on Mariposa, SF. I haven't mentioned it, but I did manage to get my own wee brewing setup going and have ~5 gallons of brown ale currently going pop pop pop in my basement. Although I think I managed to fuck it up in a million different ways, so if it's at all drinkable I will be surprised and delighted and consequently nothing will be able to stop me. I will have homemade beer and that coupled with my Grizzly Adams beard is enough to make me into some sort of Ren Faire nerd. I'm only two steps away from making leather mugs.
C'mon now give me a hearty....
HUZZAHHHHHHHHH
I knew you could.
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Thursday, March 4th, 2004
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9:42 am - love 'em? hate 'em?
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004
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4:07 pm - hgive thaet man hees money
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Mostly finished with my MARC encoding test. I have an entry with a simply fucking massive 530 field which is making me nervous, but hey, prof sez, go to level 3 of description so I am sliding absolutely everything until my MARC is a-burstin' at the seams.
This means absolutely nothing to 90% of the people out there, I know.
In other news, I've switched my at-work browser from galeon to Mozilla Firefox, because for some reason ol' Galeon is a ferocious dog on this machine.
The recent fracas over the Grey Album has prompted someone to make a complete Jay-Z Construction Set. Not bad.
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8:39 am - yearly update
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Okay not really yearly, but still. Fully embroiled in the graduate skool fracas, natch. This past weekend I had cataloging class all weekend, ja, from 9-5pm, and the first day was okay (I was suitably buttressed both with coffee and with crazy pixy-stik vitamin powder but the second day I had neither coffee nor powder, and as class ended I felt as though I had been pounded about the head with a sack of potatoes. Very intense stuff, cataloging, though you might not know it as an end user. It ain't just jamming words on index cards. Had an essay final on Monday and have to finish up the second part this evening, so I'm alternating between panicking and, uh, more panicking.
Other than that not much has been going on. Hey, try going to graduate school and working a more-than-full-time job and see how you do. G'wan. I dare yah -- I triple-dog dare yah.
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Friday, February 20th, 2004
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7:22 am - why I really miss the conservatives
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