An insanely addictive time-waster: Google Image Labeler. There goes the rest of my afternoon.

My Contemporary Art History class is evidently going to involve visiting a lot of galleries. That could be interesting, and if nothing else, walking around town is generally nicer than sitting in a classroom looking at slides and failing to stay awake. Today we went to one of the many galleries in Pioneer Square. From there it was convenient to ( Read more... )

Tim arrived this afternoon. We've made tiramisu, and it tastes just like the real thing. Amazing.

I never suspected that the Professor knew how to play Mortal Kombat, but in fact he can make Raiden teleport and shoot lightning in a most convincing fashion.

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I just got a box in the mail from my dad. Mostly it was full of 18-gauge copper, for use in printmaking, but he had also included a disc with an astonishing piece of my past: a short movie called Path to Challenge, made for Duquesne Light in 1986. It was promotional and educational, all about energy. It was mainly narrated by Dave Crawford, a ( Read more... )

The power cord for my laptop has been in bad shape for some months now. First the color-changing LED that indicates "charging" stopped changing color, and then slowly the cord got more and more fussy about which angle it had to be at so that the computer would in fact receive power. This afternoon I got home from school and was doing some of my ( Read more... )

So. I return to school. And, contrary to some of my expectations, I still live ( Read more... )

I went out looking for funnels today, in the hopes that somewhere I'd find the perfect metal ink-dripper. I didn't, of course. I'd have to fabricate the thing myself, and I don't have any of the right equipment here ( Read more... )

I went completely off on a tangent today. I'd been talking to the Professor about pendulums last night, and looking around my apartment at all my various kinds of ink and paint, and so this afternoon I combined them ( Read more... )

I don't know if anyone but me would be interested in this, but here goes:

List all the songs you have multiple versions of, and indicate how many. Don't count two versions by the same artist (like the original and a live performance, for instance), and don't count songs that have the same title but are actually different songs (like Time by both ( Read more... )