Let's see if this works...
Posting from Dreamwidth, where you can find me as sphinxofthenile, naturally.
So far, I like DW, a lot better than I like IJ, so I might even make use of it in the future. There are some features that are awesome, like the journal importing and the crossposting option, these are really a blessing.
ETA: Too bad about DW having a little grey man before usernames. My MSN trained senses always start screaming at me: "OMG you are not logged in!" *facepalms*
I've spent yesterday and today with a very dear friend of mine. It seems we have a tendency to make people around us crack up or stare in disbelief. Yesterday we went to a tea house. Just imagine the scene. A table for six completely buried under notes, a laptop, two tea sets, books and a huge narghile.
"So, you take the average and the discrepancy from the observed value *narghile gurgles* and count the variance between the groups. Then when you have SSQ(w) and SSQ(b), then *narghile gurgles* you just put them together and you get the ANOVA of the groups."
That for four and a half hours. Oh, the looks we were getting. XD But apparently, the staff enjoyed themselves.
Then today, we went to try squash. I honestly don't like sports much aside from horseback riding, but I had a blast playing even though it really was tiring, more than I expected. Still, it was awesome. I'm looking forward to having more sessions, especially because I have a nasty 10 kgs to get rid of by the summer, all the result of thesis writing.
I don't know if all gyms are like this, but this one was stuffed with people in stylish jogging pants and Nike t-shirts, girls with perfectly manicured hands talking about guys and diet tips, men with energy drinks sputtering into cell phones even while working out.
We showed up in pants we use for gardening/dog walking/whatever we need it for, and when we were done, we just really had to discuss Huxley's Brave New World and compare it to 1984 while showering. Again, the looks. But we got a good laugh out of it anyway.
She recommended I pick up Huxley, and I just finished reading yesterday. I would write a better review if I wasn't so braindead. Anyhow, it started awesome and got even better and even better, just to provide a rather disappointing ending. I don't know what I was expecting, but surely something more, something a bit more... earth shattering, I guess. But nothing of the like. So my favourite is still 1984, but Brave New World was definitely a good read, and many things that Huxley wrote are eerily familiar, especially if you look around in a shopping mall...
My next pet will be called Lenina Trotsky, dammit. :P
So far, I like DW, a lot better than I like IJ, so I might even make use of it in the future. There are some features that are awesome, like the journal importing and the crossposting option, these are really a blessing.
ETA: Too bad about DW having a little grey man before usernames. My MSN trained senses always start screaming at me: "OMG you are not logged in!" *facepalms*
I've spent yesterday and today with a very dear friend of mine. It seems we have a tendency to make people around us crack up or stare in disbelief. Yesterday we went to a tea house. Just imagine the scene. A table for six completely buried under notes, a laptop, two tea sets, books and a huge narghile.
"So, you take the average and the discrepancy from the observed value *narghile gurgles* and count the variance between the groups. Then when you have SSQ(w) and SSQ(b), then *narghile gurgles* you just put them together and you get the ANOVA of the groups."
That for four and a half hours. Oh, the looks we were getting. XD But apparently, the staff enjoyed themselves.
Then today, we went to try squash. I honestly don't like sports much aside from horseback riding, but I had a blast playing even though it really was tiring, more than I expected. Still, it was awesome. I'm looking forward to having more sessions, especially because I have a nasty 10 kgs to get rid of by the summer, all the result of thesis writing.
I don't know if all gyms are like this, but this one was stuffed with people in stylish jogging pants and Nike t-shirts, girls with perfectly manicured hands talking about guys and diet tips, men with energy drinks sputtering into cell phones even while working out.
We showed up in pants we use for gardening/dog walking/whatever we need it for, and when we were done, we just really had to discuss Huxley's Brave New World and compare it to 1984 while showering. Again, the looks. But we got a good laugh out of it anyway.
She recommended I pick up Huxley, and I just finished reading yesterday. I would write a better review if I wasn't so braindead. Anyhow, it started awesome and got even better and even better, just to provide a rather disappointing ending. I don't know what I was expecting, but surely something more, something a bit more... earth shattering, I guess. But nothing of the like. So my favourite is still 1984, but Brave New World was definitely a good read, and many things that Huxley wrote are eerily familiar, especially if you look around in a shopping mall...
My next pet will be called Lenina Trotsky, dammit. :P