It took two years of hard campaigning, lots of FUD-debunking, and countless sacrifices of time and labor, but we did it. Here at last, Barack Obama is officially the president-elect to serve as this country's 44th leader. This election brings to the White House the first African-American leader. As his victory has thusly overturned one aspect of ( Read more... )

Recently, Fedora turned 5 years old; and Google turned 10! How I have missed such awesome passings until now is probably due to schoolwork and job-hunting. (Or it could be due to sheer laziness.) The numbers on the Red Hat news page are quite astonishing:

• "More than 13,500 Fedora Account System members [...],"
• "About 6,500 total source packages in ( Read more... )

To whom it may concern:

Your attempted usage of "was like," "is like," and similar phrases consisting of a copular conjugation prepended to the word "like" is not a proper verbum dicendi. English has a myriad of ways to introduce a quotative clause, especially (though not limited to) transitive and ditransitive verbs involving speech such as (also ( Read more... )

So my brother and I recently splurged on some new toys, and they have since been reason for my general lack of availability over the past week or so...


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I'm shamelessly stealing this sciathan-fileSend me about with my camera ( Read more... )

I just briefly explained the etymology of the 言 (words, to say), 時 (time, hour), 間 (interval), 本 (book), and 森 (forest) Kanji to a visiting neighbor...in Spanish ( Read more... )

Hmm. I had been tweaking my mail server's junk filter recently and inadvertently made it too strict, it seems. Unfortunately I have it set to auto-delete anything older than a few days and only rarely do I check it for false positives ( Read more... )

We just came back from an El Torito restaurant nearby, where I took my dad out for Father's Day, and I cannot help but to think, "What the heck is up with El Torito's chefs?"

My dad and I both had to get our orders switched twice because the dishes they gave us were too spicy, even though we had explicitly told our waiter that we did not want any ( Read more... )

Eric Christensen asks, "What [new] language should I learn?" I’ll throw in my two cents...or in this case, my two foreign languages ( Read more... )

I don't know why I waited so long to do this, but I finally went through and starting uploading some of my photos to my DeviantArt gallery, mostly of various scenery shots.

These were taken with my phone (2 M-pixel camera), so I apologize for it being a bit grainy if you try to zoom in much, etc. =/

[Edit: It would help if I could spell properly