Heads up, internet: If you upload an image file to Photobucket that contains bad words, they will delete your image. Here's my exchange with Abuse:

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So! Who wants to hear some more computer woe saga?

So, about three weeks ago, I slipped a disc of Dark Angel into my 2004 Apple PowerBook. I watched the episodes, all was well and good, and then I just sort of kept neglecting to eject the DVD. Cue Millicon, when I would like to make many mixed CDs for people and imbibe the media they have ( Read more... )

"Hey, do you know if Puritan preachers used to preach against playing cards to the masses?"
"It seems to me that Puritan preachers used to preach against a lot of things, Matt, including comedy."
"I feel like there must be a record of that somewhere. Was 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' about playing cards ( Read more... )

Music and neuroscience - "If you believe music does not have evolutionary significance you are in a very small minority."

Zeus makes a comeback in Greece - Somewhere, a scruffy Titan is both laughing and very, very grumpy at this.

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I've begun collecting stupid things I see in ad columns. Let's start off with a beauty that comes from the Facebook -- from the official Fox News group, no less, sponsored and universal.


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I nearly had a fit this evening when I realized that my dad's computer, for which there is a printer, does not have the exact font I wanted to print out my CV and personal statement. Like, smashing of keyboards and contemplating smashing bigger things and freaking out/snapping at my dad, who was trying to help me-kind of fit. It's not a pleasant ( Read more... )

Aw, hell. Tonight I have to write my Malthus paper or die. I really, really don't want to. This is not new. (Oho! And lindensphinx just walked through the door and brought me When Love Speaks, courtesy of Amazon!)

Honest to Gollum, I just want to sleep.

8:35 *FACEPALM/HEADDESK OTP* Instead of writing the paper, I have spent the past hour explaining the ( Read more... )