And returned, even.

Fanime went pretty well, especially compared to the flavors of unpleasantness (some self-inflicted, some not so much) of last year.

ThursdayFlew to San Jose the Thursday before last. No sleep the night before (staying up to try to finish costumes), some sleep on the plane, some sleep in the hotel. Woke up in time for Saffy ( Read more... )

19 years ago today we came to america.

I can't believe that I've done 19 years of anything. '-_-

• My life has been ridiculously uneventful thus far
• World War 2 is a lot more immediate and personal when told from the point of view of someone who was there...
• We have it easy
• I can't speak Russian worth a damn
• I can't speak English worth a damn either (it's really annoying to put a Russian word I don't know through babelfish and come up with an ( Read more... )

Despite occasional turbulence, 2007 wasn't half bad. Hope 2008 is even better for all of you.

Dinner conversation, over Sabbath, no less.1

<... turns out that Alex's *** ***** for Mariya means '*****'. They found this out from a Ukrainian or Lithuanian (or something) cartoon called **** * **** ... >

Alex: Yeah, it's a cat that chases the mouse and the mouse is really mean to the cat. Their version of Ну погоди! (Just you wait!).
Me: I ( Read more... )

EA decided to release a Wing Commander game for the 360, and my initial reaction was "well, fuck, now I have to get a 360."

Then I saw a clip of the gameplay and wept. (Metaphorically speaking.)

Ah well... at least it dawned on me that youtube is going to have clips from the real Wing Commander series, so I have something to watch to get my eyes ( Read more... )

CO, for those not in the know, is Carbon Monoxide, an odorless, colorless (undetectable to human senses) gas that is a common byproduct of low quality combustion. Because it binds to hemoglobin1 more strongly than O2, but has none of the wonderful chemical benefits we've come to expect from our oxygen supply, CO has the unfortunate habit of killing ( Read more... )

Spring cleaning at work. Huge wheeled cardboard crates in the hallway get filled up with monitors, staplers, that sort of thing. Mostly nonfunctional, I imagine.
I scavenged enough to reconstruct at home the keyboard tray I have at work, something like $180 if you buy it (as I recall, Oracle purchasing pays the 'retail' $450). I had a tray at home ( Read more... )

• The warning "bonds instantly to skin" on a container of superglue is not just a marketing ploy.
• A box of low-fat Nestle Crunch ice cream bars looks deceptively similar to one of the regular kind, but does not taste deceptively similar.
• A judo gi looks pretty hardcore and can take a lot more abuse than the regular variety. However, there are ( Read more... )

If you're ever feeling intellectually inadequate, go here and start reading.

It's as if all the stupid in the world got together to compare poundcake recipes and collapsed into a supremely dense neutron star. The star rotates rapidly, emitting intense pulses of idiocy at predictable intervals. Caution advised: the stupidity, it burns.

( More pain... )