Not quite a year, but it's been a while since I posted here. Let's see...

I've been taking classes for a year now. I've got a 4.0 (across 3 classes... I'm not exactly moving quickly), and I finally did all of the work to apply for admission as a graduate student this past semester. I have a professor ready to be my advisor, a potential thesis ( Read more... )

misphit and I went to see Dethklok and Mastodon Friday night, it was pretty awesome. We haven't been to a metal show in a while, and I'm not much of a metal guy anymore; I love my old albums, but I just don't keep up anymore. The crowd didn't really feel like my people anymore - I identify a lot more with the industrial crowd I guess - but the bands ( Read more... )

http://xkcd.com/627/

That's not entirely correct, though; the other part of the equation is how I know, for example, a way to turn closed captioning on/off on our DVR in fewer button presses than misphit uses (this is significant because even that smaller number is something like 17... they just didn't think people would change it once they'd set it to ( Read more... )

Shaved my head this evening. I'll try to update the avatar pic later.

OK, here ya go. Feel free to post a brand new, unedited, I-didn't-prepare-for-this-at-all pic of yourself in your journal too.

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Finally updated my hair color, red again but with a shift to orange and then gold at the tips. Maybe I'll put up pics at some point. We got to host hexapod and tilos for the weekend as well, and that was a real pleasure. Among other things, we toured my collection of whiskeys and I think they were left with the same impression I have: good Scotch can be ( Read more... )