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Midnight linkage
Create an e-annoyance, go to jail » "Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity." Report: TSA Screener Spending Uncontrolled – Forbes.com » Seven hundred forty-one million dollars, folks. To recruit. They’d planned for just over one hundred million dollars.
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DDR virginity: gone!
So tonight I finally played DDR. I suck absolutely horribly (big, nasty, hairy monkey–nevermind), but oh dear, that is a wonderful, fun activity. I want to own a pad (and PS2, evidently) so that I can play often. Very often. Hmm… Actually, I do have a PS1… Wasn’t there a version for that? It’s a little weird that in one evening, I’ve joined clubs for DDR and roleplaying games. I’m even in an anime club, although my role is one of “passive anime viewer”. Now, while I don’t think I was horribly vain or anti-über-nerd when I arrived at Rose (okay, yes I was, despite my Trekkie-ness), I didn’t like…
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The current bane of my existence
The D-major chord. It’s the first chord shown on this page. Doesn’t look to bad, does it? Let me tell you, that’s not much space to fit three fingers in cleanly without the third finger (the one on the third fret) touching any other strings. Grr. A clean strike of that chord has eluded me in the nine days since I’ve started playing. I have a handful of other basic chords down and can even switch between many of them fairly cleanly and quickly (relatively), but that damn D chord… KHAAAAAN! Ahem, sorry. In other news, I’m getting better used to the sound of strumming. I’m not doing much with…
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Sci-fi film canon
Classic sci-fi movies: I’ve bolded the ones I’ve seen, italicized those I want to see, and stricken (struck?) the ones I don’t want to see. I put an asterisk after the ones I own.
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Crockery!
I bought a crockpot back before Christmas break with the hope that having one would help me batch-make food for lunches and dinners. Batch-made food means healthier food, because the meals are planned at a time when I’m not hungry (a problem for me). It also means more consistent food, as it’s easy to forget to make my lunch in the rush of morning if I have to do anything other than shovel something into a container. And since forgetting my lunch means I either go hungry (see above about foolish decisions made while hungry) or eat fried crap from an on-campus location, remembering to take a lunch becomes even…