This country ( Read more... )

Lately it seems like the only time I ever watch movies is on airplanes.

* On the way out I watched Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. I enjoyed it less than the first one. I felt like almost everyone, but especially the villains, was putting on their worst acting forward, as in a backwards competition. It doesn't help that there were basically ( Read more... )

The linguistic triumphs of being an ESL immigrant: there have been a few people so far who've reacted to the information that I'm from Romania with a peculiar surprise: "Oh! I wouldn't have guessed it, because you're quite light! All the Romanians I've met have been dark[er ( Read more... )

How strong is your Need-For-Closure ( Read more... )

Did you know, moving is not stressful enough on its own!

What you really need to get the most out of the experience is for the mover to pull out at the last minute, while you're frantically packing boxes ( Read more... )

On not making snap judgements based on Someone Else's Code:

A bit of empathy can give you a lot of insight into not only the code that was written, but also into the problem the code was trying to solve. If you start from the assumption that the author had no idea what they were doing, or was a malicious asshole, or that their opinions were just ( Read more... )

Another way to mark the passage of time: a whole year to go through a giant pack of 36 toilet rolls ( Read more... )

Happy second birthday, Welcome to Night Vale!

Wheeee, holiday was great. Here's a much belated holiday report.

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A few months ago, when I acquired the living tree, it also came with a tiny snail shell ( Read more... )

Between one thing and the other, it has somehow become 9 pm. By the time I started typing this entry, it was almost half nine. Where do the days goooo? No, where do the hours go ( Read more... )